Brawling No.8 bus drivers fined, suspended

Two bus drivers on Bangkok’s notorious No.8 route who got into a brawl on a city road over who should get waiting passengers have been fined 5,000 baht each and suspended from work for seven days. Their noisy tussle was videoed by one of the waiting passengers and posted on social media, drawing a prompt […]

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Urinating tattoo artist charged with killing Frenchman

A tattoo artist has been arrested and charged with killing a French tourist who intervened in a brawl between the urinating suspect and another Frenchman in Bangkok early on Thursday. The French victim’s name was initially withheld pending notification of relatives, but he was later identified by a police spokesman as L. A. A. L. […]

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Two killed, four injured in Bangkok street fight

Two people were killed and three injured in a deadly gunfight between rival gangs on Soi Pracha Uthit 9 in Bangkok’s Thung Khuru district late on Tuesday. Police quoted eyewitnesses as saying they saw three motorcycles involved in a chase in the soi at around 11pm before they stopped and started fighting, culminating in the […]

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