BANGKOK, 21 MARCH 2011 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has announced the Government’s success in reducing the crime rate in the capital by 20 percent while planning to expand the effort to fight crimes in other areas. Chairing a seminar with over 1,600 police investigators at IMPACT Muang Thong Thani, Prime Minister Abhisit lauded […]
Thirty-nine financial institutions agreed yesterday to let customers duped into wiring money to gangsters via ATMs to contact their call centres to cancel the transfers. Seehanat Prayoonrat, chief of the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO), said after meeting with the institutions’ representatives that the victims often realised they were fooled right after they had transferred the […]
An assistant undertaker at Wat Phai Ngern Chotanaram has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for conspiring to hide and dispose of 2,002 aborted foetuses. The sentencing followed charges laid after the discovery of thousands of foetus remains at the Bangkok temple in November last year. The South Bangkok Criminal Court yesterday sentenced Suchart […]
Communications between the United States Embassy in Bangkok and the United States State Department, released by the whistleblower website Wikileaks and featured in the United Kingdom-based Guardian newspaper, highlight a disturbing growing trend of foreign gangs operating in and out of Pattaya. The communication stated: “Thailand enjoys a rapid expansion of Russian tourists visiting Thailand […]
The Bangkok police chief is confident that crime can be cut by 20 per cent in the capital city, in line with the government’s target, with the ongoing crackdown on illegal drugs leading the way. A large amount of the various types of illegal drugs seized during recent raids was displayed at a press conference […]
Neither the girl involved in the crash or her relatives attended. “There is no contact, message of apology, or even a wreath from them” The under-aged driver of a sedan involved in a tollway crash that left nine van passengers dead will be sent to a home for girls after she acknowledges criminal offences to […]
The national police chief has announced a new anti drug offensive that includes extreme punishment being handed out to officers found to be colluding with drug trafficking rings or gambling machine operators. National Police Chief, Police General Wichien Pojphosri held a meeting with senior officers, and is urging them to step up efforts to combat […]
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) yesterday arrested a British convict, who was fleeing a 14-month jail sentence for sexually molesting minors in England and was laying low in Pattaya City. After receiving a request from the British Embassy to hunt down Kevin Victor Rider, 49, the DSI found the man in a house in […]
