Tourists Urged to Download ‘Tourist Police i lert u’ App

Thailand Tourist Police "i lert u" app for Android and iPhone.
Thailand Tourist Police "i lert u" app for Android and iPhone. Image: สถานีตำรวจภูธรศรีบุญเรือง / Facebook.

BANGKOK, March 27 – The Royal Thai Police has developed a mobile application called “Tourist Police i lert u” for foreign visitors to Thailand to [Read More…]

Pattaya motorcycle taxi riders hold rally and demand further crackdown on unlicensed ride-share app drivers

Motorcycle taxi in Thailand
Motorcycle taxi in Thailand. Photo: Wikimedia.

Motorcycle taxi riders in Pattaya demanded a crackdown on unlicensed ride-share app drivers for reportedly stealing “their” passengers. More than 100 motorcycle taxi riders on [Read More…]

Central Bank of Thailand to introduce rules to limit bank system outages

ATM machines of different Thai banks at Siam Paragon, Bangkok
ATM machines of different Thai banks at Siam Paragon shopping center in Bangkok. Photo: Chainwit. CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Bank of Thailand (BoT) is to issue a new regulation which seeks to put a time limit on commercial banks’ mobile banking app outages, [Read More…]

Man arrested in Phatthalung for murdering woman from dating app

Thai Police Car, Isuzu D-max in Chachoengsao Province
Thai Police Pickup, Isuzu D-max belonging to Forensic Science, Royal Thai Police. Photo: Thai Police Vehicles / flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Police rescued the woman after entering the apartment in Muang district of Phatthalung province on Wednesday night to arrest Thanadej Kaewchuang. Her body was bruised, [Read More…]

Mor Prom app being turned into national digital health platform

Mor Prom App
Thailand has launched the "Mor Prom" (meaning as "doctor’s ready") where locals can register via LINE official account or mobile application to get their vaccine appointments. Image: Office of Human Resources Management (OHRM) - Assumption University.

BANGKOK (NNT) – The Mor Prom mobile application, initially developed to track Covid cases, is now being turned into a national online health platform. The [Read More…]