NONG KHAI — Thai security forces last night intercepted seven North Koreans attempting to enter Thailand illegally from Laos via a boat on the Mekong River. The seven refugees – four men and three women – were apprehended when security officers intercepted their boat in Nong Khai province at around 7.45pm last night, police said. […]
NONG KHAI — A Christian missionary from the United States was arrested Monday for smuggling seven North Koreans into Thailand. Police Col. Pallop Suriyakul, commander of the Nong Khai Immigration Police, said yesterday the arrest came after police were alerted 17 June that the North Koreans – six men and one woman – had crossed […]
A combined police force raided a luxury condominium room on Sukhumvit 26 yesterday and arrested four South Korean people and charged them with running online gambling website. Bangkok Post reported that the arrest, the fourth time in a month, was a joint effort of the Thai and Korean police to crack down on Koreans operating […]
Seven metropolitan police officers have been placed under investigation for allegedly taking bribes from a group of Koreans operating an online gambling racket in exchange for allowing them to walk free. Pol Lt-Gen Prawuth Thavornsiri, the assistant national police chief and spokesman of the National Police Office, said today that he ordered a fact-finding probe […]
The bodies of a South Korean man and woman, missing after a speedboat accident off Krabi on Sunday, were found yesterday, police said. The woman, identified as An Sun Yang, 28, and a man identified as Go Min Woo, 31, went missing after the “Sea Star 29” speedboat that carried them and 40 other tourists […]
Police officers of the Immigration Bureau were able to arrest a gang of African males who tricked Thai people several times, in several ways. Amongst the arrested suspects were people from Liberia, Cameroon, South Korea and Thailand. Read more: pattayadailynews.com
BANGKOK, July 9 – Two Korean tourists seriously injured in a speedboat accident in Thailand’s eastern province of Chon Buri in April, have been compensated by the Thai government. Rights and Liberties Protection Department director-general Pol Col Narach Sawetanant presented the compensation award to the first secretary of the Korean embassy in Bangkok. Each of […]
North Korea’s ruling party yesterday unveiled a plan to sign its right to build a nuclear bomb into its constitution. South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye responded by saying that provocations from North Korea would trigger decisive military action as the war-like rhetoric on the peninsula intensifies. North Korea’s declaration that it is pursuing to enshrine […]
