One of five men who were caught at a Police Checkpoint in South Pattaya attempted to escape from Pattaya Police Station as he was about to undergo a drugs test. The men were caught on Pattaya Third Road in front of Soi 17, in the early hours of Wednesday and taken back to the station […]
Blood-test test results awaited; Official says bed-bug spray ‘not behind deaths’ The governor of Chiang Mai yesterday confirmed that public health authorities and the police were continuing to investigate the mysterious deaths of seven tourists at the northern city’s Downtown Inn and planned a press conference for the international media today on the probe. Governor […]
Bangkok – It will take at least a month for laboratories to return the results on the cause of four tourists’ deaths in the same guest house in northern Thailand, Thai officials said Friday. ‘We will have to wait at least a month for lab results from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control Prevention) in […]
Pattaya police continue the crackdown on foreign-related bars in an effort to change Pattaya’s international image and to squelch the use and sale of drugs in Pattaya bars. In the latest raid, which is one of a series of expected police actions, the bars on notorious Soi 6 where many foreigners go to relax and […]
Thai Telecom operator DTAC will be offering trial services for third-generation, or 3G, mobile phone service in Bangkok in the third quarter of this year. Thana Thienachariya, the executive vice president for Corporate Affairs and Chief Strategy Officer of Total Access Communication company, or DTAC, is expecting that it will take a long time to […]
BANGKOK, 23 November 2010 (NNT) – As World Aids Day, set for December 1st, is approaching, the Thai Red Cross Society has just announced that more Thais have come down with Aids, with gays facing the highest risk of contracting the deadly virus. According to the Red Cross Society, 26 percent of sexually active gays […]
