PATTANI, Jan 25 – Thai police here have detained 18 suspects for suspected involvement in an attack at an army outpost in Rangae district last week. Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) spokesman Col Banpot Poolpian said a joint operation of 300 military and police searched for insurgents who attacked the military outpost in Narathiwat’s Rangae […]
Arrest of five men for allegedly possessing war weapons, bombs shrouded in secrecy. Home-made bombs were allegedly found late yesterday afternoon near Government House, as Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was bracing himself for what was promised to be a relentless campaign against his regime by former allies. Whether this was a bad omen, an orchestrated […]
THAI police have charged two men with the Melbourne murder of ”good Samaritan” Luke Mitchell. Two Thai nationals were arrested late last year following raids on homes. Sarud Seehaverachart, 28, was arrested in Phuket in September and Thatiya Terdputham 35, was caught in late October. However, a third man wanted over the knifing of Mr […]
Phang Nga – The man who allegedly shot a Thai Airways International pilot was arrested in Phang Nga Friday afternoon. Prisorn Huayhongthong was arrested at Sriwara Hotel in Phang Nga. He will be flown from the Phuket Airport to Bangkok Friday night. Prisorn was accused of shooting at THAI pilot Phoolwit Ruengdej on January 12. […]
Bangkok, January 21, 2011–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the charges and threatened deportation of Thailand-based freelance photojournalists John Sanlin, a Burmese passport holder, and Pascal Schatterman, a Belgian national. “We call on Thai authorities to reconsider the deportation of journalists John Sanlin and Pascal Schatterman and take into consideration the prospect […]
BANGKOK, Jan 19 – Police arrested a former American lawyer who had worked in the United States using his position to deceive other Americans. Jan Morton Heger, 68, was arrested at his home in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit area after the Thai authorities received a request from the US authorities. According to police, Mr Heger, who has […]
Chaiwat Sinsuwong and Somboon Thongburan, two former yellow-shirt leaders facing terrorism charges over the seizure of two Bangkok airports in 2008, were arrested yesterday during a protest against the jailing of seven Thais in Cambodia. Crime Suppression police nabbed the two after Chaiwat had earlier dared the police to arrest him. It was unclear why […]
One foreign national and 13 Thais were arrested by police following a raid on a complex of low-rent houses south Pattaya. On Thursday morning a team of local police officers went to an area in Soi Khopai in south Pattaya which is renowned for having people who like to engage in illegal gambling and illicit […]
