Astrological predictions that a tsunami will hit southern Thailand this month have led to a wave of hotel room cancellations at beach resorts, news reports said. Hotels in Phuket, Phangnga, Ranong and Surin – beach resorts on the Andaman Sea coast – have reported the cancellation of 10 per cent of room bookings this month […]
The internet around the world is buzzing from reports in Thailand of major pornographic movie makers getting arrested and freed in Thailand. The well-balanced Teakdoor.com and other popular sites like Thai.visa.com and Pattaya-addicts.com have had almost a million hits on recent postings about foreign pornographers in Thailand. In Pattaya, PAPPA Co., Ltd. the law firm […]
A very popular off-Walking Street go go bar was raided at midnight on Thursday by officers from the Human Trafficking Department and Immigration Police in a sting operation involving a foreign male. Officials entered the Champagne go-go bar located in Soi LK Metro late on Thursday after sending a foreign male into the premises with […]
BANGKOK (eTN) – Despite the crucial importance of tourism to Thailand’s economy and the successful efforts made by the country to lure international visitors, foreigners touring the kingdom often wonder about the difficulties to be understood in English, even when these are basic words such as restaurant or hospital. In Bangkok or major tourism centers, […]
A French suspected class 5 drug dealer was caught by Pattaya Police, in the early hours of Saturday Morning. Undercover Pattaya Police arranged to meet the target, Mr. Mourad Amellal aged 39, outside a 7-Eleven Convenience Store in front of the Flybird Condominium in Soi 17, South Pattaya. Mr. Amellal was found to be in […]
The Education Ministry plans to declare English the second language for teaching and learning in schools with an aim to enable Thai people of the new generation to communicate with other people in Asean and world communities in English, Chinaworn Boonyakiat said on Thursday. The education minister said he had discussed this matter with Prime […]
A Danish national on Wednesday was arrested in possession of a significant quantity of the class-1 restricted drug Ya-Ba and a small quantity of another illicit narcotic at his Country Club Village home in Pattaya. Pattaya, the 15th of September 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 11:00pm on Wednesday, Lieutenant Colonel Sukthat Phumpunmuang (Chon-Buri Gendarme Police Deputy […]
Thai institutional group MBK PLC is now offering financing to foreigners on freehold condominiums through its subsidiary MBK Guarantee Ltd. This appears to be an extremely notable development in Thailand, where previously financing was nearly impossible to obtain for foreigners. Loans from THB2 million to THB20 million (US$63,431-634,313) are being offered with monthly payments from […]
