Twenty-four operators of guesthouses and hotels in downtown Bangkok have been arrested for operating without licences during security control crackdowns Thursday ahead of the Songkran festival. Tourist Police Division chief Surachet Hukpan said the operators on Khao San and Tha Phra Athit roads did not have hotel operating permits when authorities raided their offices. Read […]
BANGKOK:– Bangkok police are finally getting tough with taxi drivers who refuse fares, if a huge public relations exercise in the downtown area is to be believed, reports Thaivisa News. A high ranking officer announced thousands of fines in a ten day crackdown since last week while police and land department officials carried out training […]
SA KAEO, 13 March 2016 (NNT) – Thai authorities are continuing a crackdown on ‘influential figures’ and organized crime in a bid to clean up the country and improve the country’s image. Deputy national police chief, Pol Gen Srivara Ransibrahmanakul led a team of police officers in a raid on a house in Sa Kaeo’s […]
A large combined police and army force raided 12 locations in Sakaew province as part of the government’s crackdown on influential criminal figures and syndicates on Friday. The coordinated raids were led by Pol Gen Srivara Rangseepromnakul, the deputy national police chief, and Maj-Gen Srisak Poonprasit, commander of the Burapha task force and Sakaew governor […]
Army commander-in-chief Gen Thirachai Narkwanich announced today the crackdown on influential people or mafias will continue indefinitely nationwide until they all be eliminated from the country’s soil. The tough announcement by the army chief sent clear signal to influential people who harboured criminals will be dealt with drastically no matter they be civilians or military […]
The Appeals Court on Wednesday upheld the Criminal Court’s rejection of a case against former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his former deputy Suthep Thaugsuban for the deadly military crackdown on red-shirt protesters in 2010. The case was filed by special case litigation prosecutors at the Office of the Attorney-General against the two men in […]
SURAT THANI — Police have been ordered from the highest level to crack down on foreign mafia operating on Koh Phangan after a local official and Russian bar owner were arrested in connection with intimidation backed by gunfire on the island famous for its full moon parties. Following arrests of two suspects in the shooting, […]
The National Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday dismissed malfeasance charges against former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, his then-deputy Suthep Thaugsuban and Gen Anupong Paojinda, then-army chief, in connection with the 2010 crackdowns on red-shirt protesters. An NACC investigative sub-committee, chaired by Vicha Mahakun, decided in February to charge the three for ordering the crackdown after relatives […]
