Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is scheduled to return to England for the first time since 2008 to watch Monday’s crucial soccer game between Manchester United and Manchester City, his legal aide Noppadon Pattama confirmed yesterday. British authorities shut Thaksin out in late 2008 after he was found guilty in the Ratchadaphisek land case. Before […]
A British man is set to be sent back to the United Kingdom to face a rape and molestation trial after the Criminal Court ruled yesterday that he be extradited from Thailand within 30 days. Indicted by a Cardiff court for his alleged rape and sexual molestation in August 2009, Paul Martin Smithers will be […]
A British motorcyclist was killed in a hit-and-run road accident in East Pattaya on Saturday afternoon. The accident occurred in Soi Siam Country Club and resulted in the death of Mr. Christopher Nicholas Gibb aged 30 from Middlesex, England. Witnesses, described how Mr. Gibb, attempted an overtaking maneuver past a slow moving pick-up but clipped […]
Oh, RIM! It looked like things couldn’t get any worse, and then your messaging services go down for days. And right before the iPhone launch, too. BlackBerry owners will already know about it, but for the rest of you, BBM (BlackBerry Messaging) went down hard on Monday morning, and is still staggering along two days […]
BANGKOK, 28 September 2011 (NNT) – The recent car bombs in Su-ngai Kolok district of Narathiwat province have prompted ten countries to warn their citizens against traveling to Southern Thailand, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). In the wake of three deadly car explosions in Su-ngai Kolok district on 16 September, which left […]
A middle-aged Londoner wants return to England after hitting rock bottom in Pattaya. Kind Thai people have given him food everyday. He is upset with the British government for not assisting him although he has paid taxes throughout his life. He is grateful to the Thai police since they will send him back to the […]
His children are in government care in Britain and his land has all but already been gobbled up by his Thai wife. Legendary turkey farmer Joe Stanyer, who used to supply Thailand’s best hotels with their Christmas bird, has now been told that the last patch of land he has in Hua Hin, which he […]
Twenty year old Patcharida “Julie” Rodkongkha, who is half Thai and half English, was crowned Miss Thailand World 2011 on Sunday. Julie, a freshman student at Fashion Design Raffles International, takes home more than Bt6 million. She will represent Thailand in the Miss World pageant in London, England in November. Julie was born in England […]
