Just after 1am on Saturday Pattaya Police conducted a raid on an Online Gaming Shop in South Pattaya which was suspected of being used as an illegal online gambling centre. Police raided the shop, located close to the Land Department Office in Soi 17 off Pattaya Third Road and detained 3 men and 2 women […]
BANGKOK, 3 December 2012 (NNT) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will begin enforcing its use of fines for litterers in an effort to crack down on pollution in the city. Deputy Permanent Secretary for BMA Manit Techa-Apichoke, said there has been an exponential increase of rubbish in and around the capital’s canals. In a […]
At least 50 people were injured, mostly from burns, when police broke up a demonstration at a Chinese-run copper mine in northwestern Myanmar yesterday. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at a hospital in the Sagaing division to visit protesters who were hurt at their camp outside the Latpadantaung copper mine near Monywa township, […]
Red shirt co-leader and Pheu Thai MP Jatuporn Promphan submitted to further questioning by the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) yesterday in relation to the crackdown on red-shirt protesters in April and May 2010, which left 92 people dead. Jatuporn brought with him copies of related court verdicts and legal documents from a civil court […]
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) seized fake branded products sold online in two separate raids. DSI chief Tarit Pengdith said yesterday that the first raid, on a house in Bangkok’s Thung Khru district, led to the arrest of one male suspect and the seizure of 540 fake wristwatches worth Bt2.5 million that were sold […]
The Central Administrative Court yesterday ordered that compensation be paid to the 250 people injured in a violent police crackdown on anti-government protesters in 2008 during the Somchai Wongsawat government’s tenure. The court ordered the Royal Thai Police and the Prime Minister’s Office – the two defendants named in the lawsuit filed by the 250 […]
The severe illness of a model who suffers from “sleeping beauty syndrome” after she had a collagen injection to smooth out her hips, prompted public health authorities yesterday to order a crackdown on illegal beauty clinics. Public Health Minister Witthaya Buranasiri said he has instructed the Health Service Support Department (HSSD) to inspect and strictly […]
A crackdown on motorists who drive the wrong way down a one-way street is now under-way around Chonburi Province and for those who are caught a maximum jail sentence of 6 months can be imposed. Already cases have been through the Courts and these sentences are being given out. Khun Komsan, the Governor of Chonburi […]
