BANGKOK, 16 December 2013 (NNT) – Security measures have been tightened around the US embassy in Bangkok after anti-government demonstrators announced plans to march to the embassy. Police have dispatched forces to guard the embassy after the Network of Students and People for Reform of Thailand (NSPRT) said on Saturday night it would protest and […]
BANGKOK, Dec 6 – The government today offered to provide security to anti-government protesters after two of their guards were wounded Thursday night. Pol Maj Gen Piya Utayo, spokesman for the Centre for Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO), said the Metropolitan Police Command was assigned to talk with protest leaders about dispatching police forces […]
UBON RATCHATHANI, Nov 29 – Ubon Ratchathani deployed security personnel at the provincial hall to prevent a possible clash between pro and anti-government protesters while Pathum Thani increased the number of police one day after two rival groups were in confrontation. Ubon Ratchathani governor Wanchai Suthiworachai said the three companies of a police crowd control […]
Residents of several provinces joined the anti-government campaign on Wednesday by rallying in front of their provincial city halls and demanding governors and officials stop serving Yingluck government and go on strike. Security was intensified with police deployed and gates locked in preparation for the gathering. Read more: The Nation
PHUKET: Police in Karon today arrested a Spanish couple and charged them with beating up the security guards at their hotel, the Golden Sand Inn in the early hours of this morning (June 4). Police said the couple, David Antolin Velasco, 35, and Maria Carmen, 33, were sitting on the beach close to the hotel […]
Australian authorities were accused Tuesday of trying to cover up the “hugely embarrassing” escape of a criminal being escorted through Bangkok by security guards en route to Germany. Member of Parliament Eric Abetz said two guards hired by the immigration department were asleep on the job when 25-year-old Carlo Konstantin Kohl escaped through an emergency […]
TAK, 30 April 2013 (NNT) – Border patrol units in Tak’s Mae Sot district have beefed up security in the area following clashes between Karen soldiers from Border Guard Force (BGF) unit and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) near the province. The army units set up checkpoints to screen passing vehicles and commuters as […]
SONGKHLA, April 23 – Security measures have been tightened in Thailand’s commercial hub of this southern border province ahead of the anniversary of the Krue Se mosque incident and the upcoming peace talks between the Thai authorities and insurgent groups. Songkhla provincial police commander Pol Maj-Gen Suwit Chernsiri said he instructed security officials to continue […]
