More than 400 foreigners and 79 Thais, allegedly involved in immigration offences, were arrested on Thursday after raids across Thailand. Immigration Police Bureau deputy chief Pol Maj-General Itthipol Itthisarnronnachai told a press conference in Bangkok on Friday that Thai authorities carried out simultaneous searches at 227 locations. Full story: The Nation By Kittipong Maneerit The […]
The authorities on Tuesday shut down 16 hostels on Koh Samui in Surat Thani province for operating without licences. Troops from the Fourth Army Area were dispatched to join forces with tourist police and district officials in checking 23 hostels on the tourist-destination island during the morning. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
CHIANG RAI: Police have arrested two men with a total of 6.4 million methamphetamine pills in two separate actions in this northern province, Pol Gen Chalermkiat Srivorakhan said in a press briefing on Sunday. Pol Gen Chalermkiat, a deputy police chief in charge of drug suppression, said that in the first action police intercepted a […]
UBON RATCHATHANI, Jan 17 (TNA) – Thai police have seized assets worth more than 900 million baht in another massive operation to crackdown loan sharks in six northeastern provinces. Police on Wednesday announced the results of the latest anti-loan shark operation in six northeastern provinces, in which they searched 36 locations belonging to 20 loan […]
BANGKOK — Nearly 500 foreigners were arrested this week on visa violations in the latest raid police said early Friday morning will benefit tourism. Immigration Bureau police commander Lt. Gen. Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn paraded the newly arrested foreigners at 1am on Friday through the parking lot of Bangkok’s Montien Riverside hotel starting, announcing that […]
TAK, Dec 20 (TNA) – Anti-drug police on Thursday launched the operations to crack down on the major drug network in Tak province. The operations have been carried out at 25 locations in five provinces while the main target of the police operations is in Tak’s Mae Sot district, where a drug kingpin, identifies as […]
BANGKOK — The mother of a medic killed by military snipers inside a temple during street protests eight years ago was charged with violating a public gathering law Monday night for staging a rally. Phayaw Akkahad said Tuesday that police filed a charge of organizing an unauthorized gathering against her by holding the rally to […]
The Department of Special Investigation says it is still investigating the six deaths at Wat Pathum Wanaram during the crackdown in Bangkok on red-shirt protesters eight years ago. DSI chief Paisit Wongmuang was responding to reports that the mother of one of the victims planned to visit the DSI on Wednesday to follow up on […]
