The 10,000 baht duty-free limit on new personal items purchased overseas by incoming air passengers is now being strictly policed, the Customs Department announced on Tuesday. The warning was carried on new signs posted at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport. Read more: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST
CHIANG RAI, March 4 – Thai Customs Department was ready to cooperate with relevant government agencies in efforts to suppress illicit drug smuggling in the northern region, according to Customs Director-General Somchai Pulsawas. Mr Somchai on Sunday said that he instructed customs officers in the northern region to work with other agencies to fight against […]
BANGKOK, April 8 — Thailand’s Customs Department officials arrested a man in Prachuap Khiri Khan province for attempting to smuggle nearly 2,000 live tree monitor lizards worth more than Bt1.8 million to Bangkok. Customs Department Director-General Prasong Poontaneat told a press conference that a checkpoint set up at Silaloi sub district of Sam Roi Yot […]
New York (CNN) — Authorities in New York seized more than $9 million worth of opium hidden inside a shipment of porcelain figurines last month at John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday. The seizure happened on January 21, the agency said in a press release. CNN
BANGKOK, Jan 31 – Thai police arrested a Nigerian woman arriving at Suvarnabhumi Airport with a large amount of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ice, worth Bt9 million (US$300,000). Jennifer Chinenye Nwankuuo, 28, left Nairobi by Kenya Airlines and was arrested with three kilogrammes of ice and cash in US$1,950 (Bt58,500) and 5,935 naira (US$39 […]
BANGKOK, 27 September 2010 (NNT) – Suvarnabhumi Airport Director vows to develop the airport in all aspects, targeting to be among the best top ten airports of the world. Suvarnabhumi Airport Director Mr Nirun Teeranatsin said that the airport was pushing ahead to develop all related services continuously to facilitate passengers. The strategy of ‘Airport […]
BANGKOK, Sept 10 – Around 50 tonnes of ‘safrole’, or sassafras oil, the substance used as a principle component for ‘ecstasy’ or ‘E’ production, will be destroyed for the first time in Thailand on Monday, according to Justice Minister Peerapan Saleeratwipak. The burning of the sassafras oil will be carried out cooperatively by the Narcotics […]
BANGKOK, Aug 26 – Five Iranian men were arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport in three separate crystal methamphetamine smuggling cases involving a total weight of 12.3 kilogrammes of the drug, valued at Bt43 million (US$1.3 million), according to Thailand’s Customs Department. Customs Department Director-General Somchai Sajjapong told the media Thursday that Mohajeri Mohammadreza, 25, was detained […]
