On Saturday a gang of female pick pockets, including a twelve-year-old girl, stole the wallet of a German tourist while riding in a baht taxi in South Pattaya. Prompt action by police led to the apprehension of the gang and the return of the victim’s property intact. Pattaya, November 19, 2010, [PDN]: On 18th December […]
An HIV-positive former German musician has been charged with abusing seven children and 23 youths in Thailand. The 65-year-old former member of 1980s folk music group Godewind is accused of 403 cases of unprotected sex with child prostitutes, despite knowing he was HIV positive. Due to his HIV status, which he allegedly did not reveal, […]
THE case of a German tourist trapped in his own body inside a Thai hospital is being related in Thailand’s media outlets to help him fly home. Now emerging from a coma yet still unable to speak, Matthias Stefan Koch, 38, has been confined to a bed at Songklanadarind Hospital in Hat Yai since October […]
Bangkok – Police said Monday they arrested two German university graduates as suspected members of an internet banking theft ring preying on Thai nationals. D. I., 22, and D. A., 23, both recent graduates from Munich University, were arrested in Pattaya beach resort over the weekend, said Police Colonel Suphisarn Pakdinarunart, acting commissioner of the […]
A 90-year-old Australian man has been charged with detaining and raping four young sisters at his home in northern Thailand. German-born Joseph Kraus Karl was arrested at his house in Chiang Mai province yesterday after police received a complaint from the children’s father. The Thai girls, aged seven, 11, 12 and 14, were allegedly abused […]
NAKHON RATCHASIMA, June 17 (TNA) – A German man and his Thai wife committed suicide at their residence in the provincial seat, leaving Bt200,000 (US$6,150) cash and a suicidal note saying the cash was for their funeral and that no guests should be invited for the ceremony. Local police were told by neighbours that there […]
Four foreign men have been arrested in Pattaya on Friday wanted in connection with a reported kidnapping and torture of a German national over two years ago. The four men are part of a motorbike gang called the “Lone Brother Group.” Pattaya, the 19th of March 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 5:30pm on Friday, police Colonel […]
