At 7.55pm, the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC)’s guards have taken control of the Pathumwan Intersection. They set up barricades on the roads and closed off the skywalk, blocking entry to BTS station. Read more: The Nation
A fire broke out at Bon Kai Community in Pathumwan district of Bangkok, damaging about 20 buildings. According to witnesses, the fire may be linked with a dispute from local teenagers. Read more: TAN Network
BANGKOK, April 11 – A crater appeared in center city Bangkok’s busy Pathumwan intersection Wednesday morning, with city authorities initially saying the depression was believed to be caused by soil and sand under the road surface moving into a large drainage pipe. Bangkok Deputy Governor Teerachon Manomaiphibul and drainage, sewerage and public works department officials […]
City authorities will move to demolish the Aetas Bangkok Hotel in Soi Ruam Rudi if the hotel operator ignores an order from the Administrative Court that the building is illegal. Deputy Bangkok Governor Thirachon Manomaipibul yesterday said he had instructed the director of the Pathumwan district office to order the owners of the hotel to […]
The Administrative Court has found a hotel building in Soi Ruam Rudi was built illegally and ordered Bangkok Metropolitan Administration authorities who allowed its construction to enforce compliance with the building control law. On Sept 17, 2008, Grand Chamberlain Khwankeo Vajarodaya, Royal Household doctor Songkram Sapcharoen, and 24 residents of Soi Ruam Rudi on Phloenchit […]
Two Pathumwan Institute of Technology (PTWIT) students – a boy and a girl – were shot and wounded Tuesday near their home in Bangkok’s Bang Kapi district by two men on a motorcycle, an incident police theorised was based on school rivalry. Sattawat Wongphrome is safe but girlfriend Wilai Nathakaranont is in a critical condition […]
A former vocational college student has been killed and two others injured in a fight with students of a rival school. Twenty four year old Cherdchai Chaiphak, a former student of Pathumwan Institute of Technology, has been shot and killed in Chatuchak district of Bangkok by students from a rival school. A witness said the […]
Two Taiwanese men, alleged to be part of a moneywire scam for which six of their compatriots were arrested last month, were nabbed by the police while they were using several cards to withdraw money at an ATM machine in Bangkok. Hsu Tien Yu, 22, and Chen ChunJung, 30, had been under close watch following […]
