BANGKOK, 20 February 2016 (NNT) – Police officers will be dropping in on retailers, bars, restaurants, and other venues to prevent alcohol sales on Makha Bucha, the national Buddhist holiday. The Royal Thai Police will be enforcing alcohol bans on Makha Bucha Day. Officers will travel to entertainment venues, bus terminals, train stations, and gas […]
BANGKOK, 26 December 2015 (NNT) – Police officers will be deployed across the country in an effort to prevent DUI violation during the upcoming holidays. According to a spokesperson of the Royal Thai Police, the prime minister, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, had instructed all police officers to be on a heightened sense of alert during the […]
Land transport officials on Monday conducted random drug and alcohol tests on passenger-van drivers in the Victory Monument area Monday to ensure safe driving conditions and reduce road accidents over the New Year holiday. The tests were carried out by some 200 transport regulators, anti-narcotic police officers and soldiers at four minivan queues around the […]
Provincial governors are being instructed to ban sales of alcohol in areas where the Loy Krathong festival is celebrated next week, in the interests of public safety. Chatchai Promlert, chief of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, said governors could ban the sale of beer, wine and spirits in designated Loy Krathong areas under the […]
The Excise Department made clear yesterday that beer garden operators are allowed to sell alcoholic drinks once a year and the business is not against the law. This was revealed by the director general of the Excise Department Mr Somchai Poonsawat. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
BANGKOK — Thailand’s top anti-alcohol crusader pre-emptively warned the public today about a product most have likely never heard of. Samarn Footrakul, head of the Alcohol Control Board, warned that imports of so-called “instant beer” will require permits from both the Customs and Excise Tax departments because it is considered a “special good” under the […]
Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya on Monday tried to quell the controversy over a vaguely worded junta order banning alcohol sales “near” educational institutions, denying it prohibits booze sales within 300 metres of schools and that enforcement will depend upon the drawing of new entertainment zones. The minister said it would take 180 days to draw […]
PATHUM THANI — Two bars in a northern suburb of Bangkok were the first establishments to be shut down under a new order issued by the military junta that bans selling alcohol within 300 meters of universities and schools throughout the country. Junta chairman and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha issued the ban on 23 July […]
