MILAN, Oct 16 – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha met with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe during their stay in Italy to attend the Asia-Europe Meeting. After arriving in Milan, the venue of the meeting, the first task of Gen Prayut was to meet the business community of participants in the Asia-Europe Business Forum and to […]
BANGKOK, Sept 13 – The United States and Japanese ambassadors to Thailand have held discussions with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Gen Thanasak Patimaprakorn, who informed them that the interim Thai government would do everything possible to strengthen the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The meeting was held on Friday, where Gen […]
TWO THAI surrogate mothers told police yesterday they were instructed to lie to the courts during adoption hearings – to say that their babies were conceived during affairs with the Japanese man at the heart of a surrogacy scandal. The unnamed women said they testified to the courts that they could not keep the babies […]
BANGKOK, 18 August 2014 (NNT) – The Japanese man suspected to be the father of at least 13 surrogate babies has failed to report himself to investigators after his lawyer earlier informed Thai authorities about the man’s plan to return to Thailand to meet the police on Monday. Police Colonel Naiyawat Padermchit, commander of the […]
In the early hours of Friday, Pattaya’s Tourist Police Unit based on Walking Street received a complaint from a Japanese Tourist who claimed his bag, containing money and his iPhone had been stolen while he was inside a Go-Go Bar. Officers converged on an apartment in South Pattaya occupied by Mr. Larbi Kbelifa aged 44 […]
A 24-year-old Japanese man claimed to be the father of nine surrogate babies discovered in Bangkok, Shigeta Mitsutoki, fled Thailand early Thursday morning, immigration police confirmed on Friday. A source at the Immigration Bureau said that Mr Mitsutoki had passed through immigration at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport. Read more: Bangkok Post
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN – Three Japanese and two Danish tourists were injured on Saturday when a van transporting them from Bangkok ploughed into some roadside shops. Read more: Bangkok Post
BANGKOK, 24 May 2014 (NNT) – Chiang Mai government officials are planning to promote the city as a place for “Long Stay Tourism”, specifically for Japanese. The concept of long stay tourism means that travelers can stay somewhere for an extended period of time without transferring citizenship. Officials are hoping that Chiang Mai will be […]
