Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — A “massive firefight” broke out between Thai security forces and crowds of anti-government protesters Wednesday, as tensions flared in the latest round of confrontations between the two groups just outside the capital, Bangkok. The fighting broke out after riot police and government troops massed along a major highway to stop the […]
THAILAND. The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), in association with the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), has issued a statement reassuring travellers to Thailand that the protests in Bangkok have not caused major disruption in the city. “The city remains a safe destination for both leisure and business travellers,” the statement read. However, although this […]
BANGKOK : Thailand said on Thursday it had decided to drop charges against the crew of a plane carrying sanctions-busting weapons from North Korea and ordered the five men deported. The attorney general’s office said it was not in the national interest to pursue the case against the Belarussian pilot and four-member Kazakh crew and […]
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — An airport in Iran’s capital of Tehran was the intended destination for a North Korean weapons shipment seized in Bangkok on Dec. 12, according to a confidential report to the United Nations Security Council by Thailand’s government. A copy of the report, obtained from diplomats whose governments hold Security Council seats, […]
A Thai court has ordered the crew of a cargo plane transporting weapons from North Korea to remain in jail for 12 more days. The five crew members, consisting of one Belarus national and four Kazakh nationals, were arrested in mid-December after their cargo plane was seized during a stop in Bangkok. The plane was […]
Weapons seized in Thailand from an impounded plane traveling from North Korea were likely destined for Iran, a high-ranking Thai government security official was quoted by Reuters as saying regarding the findings of a team investigating the arms. “Some experts believe the weapons may be going to Iran, which has bought arms from North Korea […]
North Korean plane seized The biggest weapons seized on a Soviet cargo plane detained at Don Mueang airport on Saturday are multiple rocket launchers – two mobile units – and two dozen 240mm unguided rockets, high-ranking security sources said yesterday. The total value of weapons found in 145 large boxes that weigh nearly 40 tonnes […]
Bangkok – Thai authorities on Saturday impounded an airplane from and unnamed Eastern European country that was found to be carrying war weapons, a government spokesman said. The pilot of the airplane had requested an emergency landing at Bangkok’s Don Muang Airport to refuel Saturday morning. “When authorities boarded the plane they found it was […]
