About 200 Mandarin-language Thai guides on Monday submitted a letter calling on the junta to crack down on foreign unlicensed guides who compete with them for work. The Thai guides, led by Saengthong Prailinwichit who is deputy chairman of the Mandarin Guides Club of Thailand, submitted their demand to junta chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha at […]
CHACHOENGSAO, June 5 – Combined government forces have continued cracking down on illegal weapons in upcountry following the May 22 bloodless coup in Thailand, officials said Thursday. In the latest incident, police and soldiers searched a house in a village of Sanam Chai Khet district of the eastern province of Chachoengsao and seized both licensed […]
BANGKOK, May 26 – Thailand’s public prosecutor has indicted Suthep Thaugsuban, secretary-general of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), in connection with deaths and injuries of civilians in the crackdown on protesters in Bangkok’s 2010 political upheaval. Pol Lt Col Phichit Nonthasuwan, public prosecutor for special litigation, pressed the charge of premeditated murder against Mr […]
BANGKOK — The Royal Thai Army has warned that the military is willing to step in to bring about “order” if Thailand’s political unrest continues to escalate. The warning was broadcast live on the army-owned TV Channel 5 this afternoon, hours after unidentified militants fired grenades and automatic rifles at an anti-government rally in Bangkok, […]
First Army Area Division Maj Gen Apirat Kongsompong on Wednesday denied that his division had set up a taskforce in preparation for launching crackdowns on red-shirt protesters. United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship chairman Jatuporn Prompan said at the red-shirt rally site on Utthayan Road that the Army was preparing to crack down on red-shirt […]
PHUKET: A senior Immigration officer has given a clue as to the reasons for the current crackdown on tourists doing “out-in visa hops” from Ranong to Myanmar and back, and across all other land borders with Thailand’s neighbours: MH370. Pol Lt Col Tauthong Thitchai of Surin Immigration, in whose territory is the busy Chong Jom […]
The Pawina Foundation in association with Nongprue Police, Banglamung Police, The Department of Special Investigations (DSI), Immigration Police and the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security conducted an operation targeting 3 locations on Friday, thought to have connections with Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking. The first location was a luxury house at the Paradise […]
BANGKOK, March 26 – The Office of Attorney General (OAG) will consider indicting former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy, Suthep Thaugsuban, in connection with deaths and injuries of civilians in a crackdown on protesters in the 2010 political upheaval in Bangkok. The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has submitted the case to the […]
