BANGKOK, Nov 5 (TNA) – Police arrested six people for their involvement in using Thai nominees to register para rubber bedding businesses for Chinese owners in Bangkok. Acting Immigration police chief Pol Maj-Gen Surachate Hakpal said five Thais and a Chinese a man were apprehended after they opened para-rubber businesses for Chinese people, using Thai […]
PHUKET: In just two weeks over 1,000 foreigners have been arrested in Phuket for visa violations and other immigration offences according to the chief of the Phuket Immigration Office. The Phuket Immigration Office Chief Pol Col Kathathorn Kumthieng revealed that statistics at a gathering of over 200 officials involved in the ongoing ‘Operation X-Ray Outlaw […]
Corruption in North Korea is on the rise as agents from the Ministry of State Security more brazenly demand bribes to look the other way when North Koreans make calls to their relatives in South Korea on their mobile phones, North Korean sources told RFA’s Korean Service. “Whenever we need to call our family in […]
Immigration police on Wednesday rounded up 100 Christian Pakistani asylum seekers who have overstayed their visas or lack any visa. Acting Immigration Police chief Maj-General Surachate Hakpal ordered checks of Soi Charansanitwong 12 in Bangkok’s Bangkok Yai district. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
BANGKOK — Police on Friday said hundreds of foreigners were arrested in another round of national raids targeting schools, hotels and restaurants. A record 369 foreign nationals were arrested Thursday night from 337 locations, including in the capital’s Huai Khwang district, in an operation the immigration chief said was a joint effort between various law […]
Thirteen drug suspects have been detained and drugs with a combined street value of over 2 billion baht seized in three crackdowns carried out this month, the Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) revealed Tuesday. Ten million methamphetamine tablets, 37 kilogrammes of heroin, 2kg of crystal meth and 917kg of cannabis were seized in total, police said. […]
A DRUG-TRAFFICKING gang has gone online and is using direct marketing techniques to attract members and customers. As of yesterday, while police conducted simultaneous raids on the illicit business, the gang’s online network had more than 9,000 members and a cash flow of at least Bt100 million. Full story: The Nation By NATTANAN SIRISANTIWORAKUL THE […]
Krabi police arrested three suspects – including one who may be a major smuggler – and seized 120,317 methamphetamine pills along with 949.3 grams of crystal meth on Friday. Pol Colonel Piyaphan Anantho, commander of subdivision 2 of the Narcotics Suppression Division 4, held a press conference at Border Patrol Police Company 426 to announce […]
