BANGKOK, May 14 – Three-fourths of the Thai capital’s residents responding to a poll said that the ongoing searing hot weather this summer season has affected their emotion, according to results released by a NIDA Poll. The National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) conducted an opinion survey on the people’s feelings related to the scorching […]
A man celebrating the Songkran Festival and his 29th Birthday was beaten to death in front of a Central Pattaya Beer Bar on Thursday evening. The body of Khun Tongkum was inspected by Police at the Pattaya Memorial Hospital where medical staff were unable to save the man who was admitted earlier in cardiac arrest. […]
An Australian tourist was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday on Pattaya Beach following an altercation with a Thai man which resulted in the Thai being stabbed in his face, allegedly by the Australian. Police were called to the area by Khun Wattana aged 38, who had been stabbed a total of 4 times, […]
Two British tourists were assaulted by a Pattaya motorbike taxi driver in the early hours of Monday over a dispute over the taxi fare. All those involved in the incident made their way to Pattaya Police Station, including the taxi driver, Khun Somkwuan aged 35 who claimed he had accepted a fare from the two […]
Two rival gangs were involved in a shootout at a South Pattaya Petrol Station in the early hours of Saturday. Two gang members were injured and one member of the public who was caught in the crossfire also sustained injuries. Read more: Pattaya One
Two Irish nationals were arrested by Pattaya Police in the early hours of Friday, accused of being involved in a fight at a Beer Bar which left two Thai men with serious stab wounds and two other foreign patrons with minor facial injuries. Police were called to the Pattaya New Plaza Beer Bar Complex on […]
Violent crime is on the rise in Bangkok as troublemakers, and particularly teenagers, are increasingly reaching for guns during brawls and in drug-related incidents. A rise in teenage drug addiction is the main factor behind the tendency for offenders use to guns as a way to end conflicts, Pol Maj Gen Wichai Sangpraphai, deputy chief […]
A brawl among vocational school students near the Pattanakarn intersection in Bangkok’s Suan Luang district yesterday morning resulted in four people getting injured, police said. Students from the Bangkok College of Industrial Technology (BCIT) and the Bang Kapi School of Technology allegedly attacked each other with knives and homemade pingpong bombs at around 8.25am before […]
