PHUKET: Local officials plan to carry out a two week crack down of tour guides and tour companies beginning on Monday (September 8) to ensure that they are operating legally. Tourism officials, backed by police and the Royal Thai Navy, will check all tour companies for legal documents while all guides must present their ID […]
BANGKOK, Sept 1 (TNA) – Thailand’s Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) and anti-narcotics personnel yesterday arrested drug trafficking suspects and impounded assets in 49 areas of 13 northern and central provinces, as well as Bangkok. Cooperating agencies applied 23 warrants to search homes of suspected drug traffickers in these areas. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK — The father of a 17-year-old boy who was murdered during the 2010 military crackdown on anti-government protesters has been charged with littering after he distributed leaflets demanding justice for his son on Sunday. Pansak Srithep, whose son Samapan Srithep was killed in the clashes between soldiers and Redshirt demonstrators in May 2010, distributed […]
Pattaya police have cracked down on gangs of lady boys who hang around walking street. They were all taken to the police station where their ID was recorded before being fined 200 THB and released. Read more: pattayadailynews.com
Three relatives of people killed in the 2010 political crackdown were arrested in the Chatuchak area on Sunday morning after distributing leaflets demanding criminal action be taken against former prime minister Abhsit Vejjajiva and his former deputy Suthep Thaugsuban. Read more: Bangkok Post
The Criminal Court this morning dismissed the murder charges brought against former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy, Suthep Thaugsuban, for ordering a military crackdown on red-shirt protesters during their protests from April to May 19, 2010. The crackdown led to the killing of Mr Pan Kampong, a taxi driver from Yasothon, 14-year old […]
BANGKOK — Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is looking to file criminal charges against former Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat for the government crackdown on Yellowshirt demonstrators in 2008, the agency’s chairman says. On the morning of 7 October 2008, two people were killed and more than 380 injured after riot police attempted to remove Yellowshirt […]
Police to launch serious measures against motorcycle street racing on 10 Bangkok roads, adjacent areas at midnight; to evaluate result in 7 days. News source: MCOT
