Police arrested a Thai man in Chiang Mai for procuring minors, and Belgian man for having sex with these minors, Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Tharit Pengdit said Thursday. On Wednesday, Suchat Biewtoo, 21, was nabbed at his home in San Sai district, while 41-year-old Philip Francoise was nabbed in front of a condominium […]
Bangkok – Belgium-based Enfinity NV has announced plans to spend 82 million dollars to build a 40-megawatt solar farm in Thailand this year, media reports said Friday. Martin Parodi, head of Enfinity’s Asia-Pacific unit, told a seminar Thursday that the company planned to spend 300 million dollars on solar projects in Thailand, Taiwan and South […]
Bangkok – Thai police on Thursday arrested a former Belgian policeman who had allegedly been running an extortion racket in the beach resort town of Pattaya. M. J., 50, was arrested at his rented apartment in Pattaya, 90 kilometres south-east of Bangkok, and charged with overstaying his tourist visa by two months, Pattaya Immigration Police […]
A Belgian national, unaware of the dangers of accepting drinks from Pattaya’s ‘ladies of the night,’ has been drugged and robbed of a substantial amount of money having accepted a ‘spiked’ drink during a late night sexual service-call in Pattaya. Pattaya, the 5th of May 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 1:00am, police Lieutenant Colonel Chatchai Srisuwan […]
