British pensioners in Thailand have started a murder fund after a court released a Thai wife who allegedly commissioned the death of her London husband and then began to milk his bank accounts. In Hua Hin, 200 miles south west of Bangkok, pensioners Peter Rees, 71, and David Williams, 65, have put £11,000 into a […]
Hua Hin police were notified of the murder of a foreign national on December 13th. The discovery was made in a locked room at Prasopchok Guesthouse on Petchkasem Road, it appears the deceased had been there for at least a week. Mr Christopher Schnitzer, a 67 year old Swiss national was found with head and […]
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 […]
Thailand will hold its most competitive, and probably most secretive, auction ever later this month when the country’s telecom giants vie for highly prized licences to provide third-generation (3G) services. Two of the first three 3G-2.1GHz-spectrum licences will be up for grabs at a starting price of Bt12.8 billion apiece when the bidding takes place […]
POLICE are looking for a Hua Hin bar girl and her boyfriend over the vicious slaying of a well-known expat journalist who was the editor in chief of Asia Times online (Atimes.com). Allen George Quicke, 57, was stabbed seven times and beaten about the head with what appeared to be a baseball bat at his […]
Advanced Info Service (AIS) plans to start providing 3G wireless broadband services in Bangkok on Feb 1 along with TOT Plc’s 3G services through a data roaming agreement. The country’s largest mobile-phone operator says it is ready to work with its concession provider TOT in a joint venture or co-investment in the state enterprise’s 3G […]
BANGKOK — Initial reports into how a Thai train derailed, killing several people and injuring almost 90 near a coastal resort, suggest the driver may have fallen asleep, the state railway said Tuesday. The overnight passenger train, travelling from southern Trang province to Bangkok, came off the tracks in heavy rain 13 kilometres (eight miles) […]
A train bounding for Bangkok from Trang derailed in Prachuab Khiri Khan on Monday morning, killing at least seven passengers and injuring many others. The accident happened at about 4.45am at Khao Tao station in the province’s Hua Hin district. A Nation reporter at the scene said that ten of 15 compartments derailed. The train […]
