BANGKOK, 4 August 2014 (NNT)-The Royal Thai Police has launched three measures to solve the problem of mafia-style extortion gangs controlling the motorcycle taxi service. Pol Lt-Gen Ruangsak Jarit-aek, the assistant police chief, said that as part of a crackdown last month in efforts to regulate public transport services in Bangkok, the department has introduced […]
Foreigners overstaying their visa in Thailand likely will face bans of up to 10 years starting Aug 25. The Immigration Bureau has forwarded the new regulation to the Interior Ministry, according to the statement posted on the website of the Immigration Bureau’s Division 1. Read more: Bangkok Post
BANGKOK — Former politician Suthep Thaugsuban filed a legal complaint today that pushed back the trial over his authorisation of the military crackdown on Redshirt protesters in 2010. Former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Mr. Suthep, who was the Deputy Prime Minister at the time, face murder charges for their authorization of the crackdown, in […]
On Friday Night a press conference was held at Pattaya Police Station to announce the arrest of 5 people who are suspected of running a drug distribution business from a house in South Pattaya. Police Colonel Supatee, the acting Superintendent of Pattaya Police Station received information of the drugs house, located in the Egmongkol Village […]
The National Parks and Wildlife Department is to launch an extensive inspection of land ownership in two national parks and one wildlife sanctuary in Kanchanaburi to determine if all the resorts and oil palm plantations there legal. Mr Tunya Netithammakul, deputy director-general of National Parks and Wildlife Department, said that many resorts – several of […]
Following on from a recent necklace snatch involving a French Tourist in Jomtien, Pattaya Police arrested 14 people on Larn Island, off the coast of Pattaya, on Tuesday afternoon. Police Colonel Supatee, the Acting Superintendent of Pattaya Police Station, announced the arrest of a 3-man gang and another man who was accused of receiving stolen […]
BANGKOK — Thailand’s military regime may close down a special jail for Redshirt protesters who have been charged for their alleged role in Thailand’s 2010 political violence, prison sources say. Twenty-two inmates, 20 men and 2 women, are currently being held at Laksi Temporary Prison in northern Bangkok where they await appeal court trials on […]
FOREIGNERS WHO do regular visa runs in order to extend their stay in Thailand have less than a month before a crackdown by the authorities to enforce immigration laws more strictly. From August 13, people will not be able to re-enter the country, regardless of their choice of transport. Read more: The Nation
