Artikel erschien September 2018

  • Loei mothers file complaint about local abbot sexually abusing their sons

    Loei mothers file complaint about local abbot sexually abusing their sons

    Four Loei mothers have filed a complaint with police today accusing the local abbot of a monastic centre of sexually abusing their sons.

  • Happy Birthday Sweet 17

    Happy Birthday Sweet 17

    PHOTO: The Nation Happy birthday Lin Hui.

  • Drunk Phuket Tuk Tuk driver charged after running red lights

    Drunk Phuket Tuk Tuk driver charged after running red lights

    PHOTO/VIDEO: Nicky phukettour / Newshawk Phuket The drunk driver’s behaviour was bad enough.

  • Suspect questioned in alleged waterfall murder in Hat Yai

    Suspect questioned in alleged waterfall murder in Hat Yai

    PHOTO: Sanook An investigation into the death of 28 year old Chinese tourist Lei Jiang at the Tone Nga Chang falls in Hat Yai in Thailand’s south has turned up some fresh evidence. A rock that may have been used as a murder weapon, as well as possible bloodstains, have been found in the area. While an accident or suicide has not been ruled out, the police believe the evidence points to a possible murder. They say they’ve already spoken to a possible suspect in the case but the person is denying any involvement in the murder. Yesterday Sanook.com reported that a taskforce, set up by Tourist Police Bureau deputy commander Maj-Gen Surachate Hakpan, in conjunction with local tourist and Thung Tam Sao police, had gone back to the falls to gather more evidence

  • Pattaya gambling raid finds dice, money. And sex drugs.

    PHOTOS: Sanook Police raiding yet another suspected gambling den. Expect to find gamblers and gambling paraphernalia. Right?

  • Thai tiger farms investigated for links to black market

    Thailand’s tiger facilities have come under international scrutiny amid suggestions many there are many farms taking part in the illicit trading of the endangered species. The committee on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) now plans to appoint a non-governmental organisation to collect data on the population and conditions of captive-bred tigers in tiger farms across Thailand. This is all contained in a Thai PBS report which quotes a source from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DPA)

  • Two arrested with nearly 2,000 methamphetamine pills at Phuket Checkpoint

    Two people have been arrested with 1,952 methamphetamine pills at the Phuket Checkpoint at Tha Chatchai, far north of the island. A team of officers arrested two men from Nakhon Si Thammarat, 28 year old Surasak Kaewmanee and 20 year old Watchara Rattanapong

  • Snap for Stray exhibition @ Limelight Avenue

    The Soi Dog Foundation has mounted the ‘Snap for Stray’ Photo Exhibition which will run until September 29 at Limelight Avenue in Phuket Town. The exhibition gathers 40 beautiful photographs from contestants of the Snap for Stray Photo Contest held earlier last month. The exhibition aims to change peoples’ attitude about stray dogs, showing them that strays can be lovely, smart and beautiful too.

  • Chonburi road rager gets 10 years for killing a 17 year old

    PHOTO: Suthep Poshsomboon reporting to police following last year’s road rage incident “Following several punches by the 17 year old boy, a gunshot was heard” The Chonburi Provincial Court has handed down a 10 year jail term to an engineer who shot dead a teenage schoolboy in a high-profile road rage incident last year.

  • 388 suspected tuberculosis cases found at Phitsanulok prisons

    388 suspected tuberculosis cases found at Phitsanulok prisons

    Up to 388 inmates at two prisons in Phitsanulok have been found to have signs of tuberculosis.