BANGKOK, 5 January 2012 (NNT) – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has welcomed the news that more and more countries are cancelling travel advisories against Thailand while pointing out that the warning that remains in some countries is at a low level and is only contained in markets with less significance. TAT Deputy Governor […]
A middle school teacher has been indicted after it was found that he possessed a memory card contained over 500 pictures secretly taken with a cellphone. The Seoul Central Prosecutor’s office on crimes against women and children announced on the 2nd that it had indicted 31-year-old Mr. Ahn on charges of secretly photographing women’s legs […]
BANGKOK, 3 February 2012 (NNT) – Thai Culture Minister Mrs. Sukumol Kunplome is set to hold talks with related agencies to monitor the use of technology in the Thai society after a new smart phone application called ‘Simsimi’ which interacts with users using foul language is becoming popular. The program is similar to other chatting […]
An illegal Korean Call Center had been uncovered by Police in Pattaya. The Region 2 Transnational Crime Suppression Unit received information that a house in Naklua was being used as a call center whereby Korean operators would use the internet to contact Korean’s back in their native country to convince people to transfer money to […]
A Korean man was convicted of seeking visa extensions for Thai welders purportedly hired for a construction job when in reality they were forced to work at restaurants and live in deplorable conditions, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Yoo Taik Kim, 55, was found guilty by a federal jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday of visa […]
The Thai ambassador to Korea plans to take the Seoul hospital where his wife died to court both here and in Thailand, embassy officials said Tuesday. Ambassador Chaiyong Satjipanon has filed a criminal complaint with the Korean police accusing Soonchunhyang University Hospital of medical malpractice and a lack of professionalism leading to the death of […]
A US soldier has been sentenced by a South Korean court to ten years in prison for raping a teenager. Although the court declined to identify the 21-year-old pending a possible appeal, media has named him as Pfc. Kevin Flippin. Flippin stood accused of breaking into the eighteen-year-old’s rented accommodation and raping her for hours, […]
United Nations’ humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has arrived in North Korea on a mission to assess the communist country’s chronic food shortages. Amos arrived Monday in Pyongyang, where she said she plans to hold talks with officials on long-range plans for meeting the country’s food needs.
