An anti-drug government agency will meet this week to consider options for reviewing punishments in drug-related cases to make them more realistic. The Narcotics Control Board’s secretary general Permpong Koomchaya said that it is believed that there are too many laws related to narcotics punishment and they are not practical. Read more: The Nation
SI SA KET, Sept 20 – Police on Saturday arrested five Cambodians and a Thai in two separate raids in the northeastern province of Si Sa Ket along the border with Cambodia and charged them of illegally possessing endangered Siamese rosewood. Combined police, army personnel and Royal Forest Department officials arrested five young Cambodian men […]
SAKEAW, 23 Aug 2014, (NNT) – Sakeaw officials have arrested 2 Cambodian traders for smuggling illegal goods into the Kingdom through customs office in Arunyapratet District. The traders hid the goods inside two trolleys full of foldable cradles, declaring that their merchandise only consists of fabric and iron cradle legs. Read more: NNT
MUKDAHAN, Aug 8 – Thai officials early Friday arrested a Lao woman and charged her with smuggling Thai currency amounting to Bt30 million out of the country, customs officials said. A combined unit of customs, police and soldiers apprehended a 42-year-old woman identified only as Matapon after stopping her pickup truck at the Thai-Lao Friendship […]
Pattaya police officers have arrested 2 Laos girls after the officers tricked them into selling drugs to undercover officers. They were arrested in a north Pattaya hotel with 1,025 amphetamine pills. Read more: pattayadailynews.com
Customs officials have arrested a Chinese woman and a Vietnamese man at Suvarnabhumi Airport after they allegedly tried to smuggle out elephant tusks and ivory products worth about Bt9 million. The man was identified as Luong Tien Phong, 62 and the woman as Chen Zhiyu, 23. Eighteen pieces of tusk and 587 ivory products, worth […]
BANGKOK, 21 July 2014, (NNT) – Officials of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNP) have raided Sombutburi Market in Nontaburi notoriously known for its illegal wildlife trading activities. According to the authorities, the suspects fled as soon as they spotted the officials who proceeded to confiscate 112 Red-whiskered bulbuls worth approximately 50,00 […]
BANGKOK, July 10 – Drug trafficking in Thailand has declined and prices have increased along the Thai border after the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) seized power in the country, said Permpong Chaovalit, secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), on Thursday. Mr Permpong told participants at a meeting on […]
