Pattaya City officials visited Bali Hai Pier yesterday, February 22nd, to follow up on reports from local residents and domestic tourists of unscrupulous individuals allegedly charging for parking around the pier. The group of officials inspecting the pier were led by Mr. Pattana Boonsawad, Deputy Mayor of Pattaya City, along with his staff and assistants. […]
PHUKET: ISCO Region 4, the military oversight organisation for all of Southern Thailand, has intervened over a Thai woman tourist arriving at a restaurant in Phuket to enjoy a meal with friends being confronted and intimidated by a drunk parking attendant. The issue arose after the tourist posted a video on social media yesterday (Dec […]
PHUKET: Police last night (Mar 25) arrested eight people who were involved in a scam whereby they were illegally charging people to park their vehicles in public areas near Nimit circle on the east side of Phuket Town. Capt Wiritpol Tip-aut of Phuket City Police told The Phuket News this morning that he was called […]
BANGKOK, July 27 (TNA) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will from August 1 double fines from 1,000 to 2,000 baht on motorcyclists riding on footpaths, starting from August 1. Informants, who reported the wrongdoing to BMA officials will receive half of the total fines or 1,000 baht after the cases end. Full story: tna.mcot.net […]
A 36-year-old was found dead in his car, which was parked at a condominium in Bangkok’s Din Daeng district, in an apparent suicide early Tuesday morning. Following the 2am report of a dead body being discovered by a relative in the condominium’s fourth-floor car park, Sutthisarn precinct’s deputy inspector Pol Lieutenant Siyaporn Kaewmaneeprod led forensic […]
The eldest son of Gen Panlop Pinmanee fell to his death from the eighth floor of a shopping centre car park in Bang Kapi district of Bangkok on Saturday. The man, identified later as Ratcharot Pinmanee, 51, was found injured and asking for help in the bushes behind the car park building of The Mall […]
A pickup truck this morning plunged six stories from a car park on top of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) office building outside of Bangkok. The driver escaped just in time — narrowly avoiding death. Full story: coconuts.co By Coconuts Bangkok
A 51-year-old engineer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, fined 2,000 baht and ordered to pay 340,000-baht compensation for shooting dead a teenage boy during a rowdy confrontation over double-parking in Chon Buri province early last year. The Chon Buri provincial court on Thursday found Suthep Pochanasomboon guilty of the premeditated murder of […]
