Artikel erschien Oktober 2018

  • Viral posts claim Tesco Lotus is laying off staff and closing stores

    Viral posts claim Tesco Lotus is laying off staff and closing stores

    A rumor, stating that Tesco Lotus is laying off staff and closing 43 branches around Thailand has gone viral in social media. Matichon Online reported yesterday that social message is saying that… “Tesco Lotus lay off staff around the country

  • Leicester City club owner and King Power founder, Vichai’s helicopter crashes

    Leicester City club owner and King Power founder, Vichai’s helicopter crashes

    A helicopter owned by the Thai Leicester City football club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha has crashed in a ball of flames in the car park of the club yesterday following a Premier League match. At this stage it’s not known who was in the helicopter at the time. The Premier League club has not confirmed whether its owner was on board at the time of the crash, though he is known to regularly travel to and from the stadium by helicopter. The Club owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, is a father of four and the founder of duty-free giant King Power International

  • Phang Nga Court convicts 11 men over gang rape of 14 year old

    A Phang Nga court has convicted 11 men and sentenced them to lengthy jail terms for gang-raping a 14 year old girl in the province last year. Read the original story we broke on The Thaiger HERE . News about the assaults came to light in September 2017 after the mother filed charges with police.

  • Last weekend’s horror road toll – nearly 11,000 died so far in 2018

    Last weekend’s horror road toll – nearly 11,000 died so far in 2018

    At least 10,794 people have lost their lives on Thailand’s roads this year. This tally, with only two months remaining, is a timely reminder of the danger that lurks on Thai roads from Dr Taejing Siripanich, secretary-general of the Don’t Drive Drunk Foundation. Statistically, compared to last year, this is a drop in overall deaths on Thailand’s roads.

  • Two killed and nine injured in van and wild elephant collision

    Two killed and nine injured in van and wild elephant collision

    FILE PHOTO A van driver and a passenger have been killed and nine other passengers injured when their chartered van hit a wild elephant on a road in Chachoengsao’s Sanam Chaikhet district, near the Cambodian border, early today (Saturday).

  • Anti-military rap song tops iTunes Thailand downloads

    An anti-military dictatorship rap song has topped Thailand’s download list on iTunes after police and the government threatened legal action against the Rap Against Dictatorship (RAD) group. The Prathet Goo Mee (My F…king Country’s Got…) went to the top of Thailand’s iTunes download list this morning to the cheers of RAD who posted a message to thank its fans. The music video was uploaded to YouTube last Monday.

  • Is ‘cross fit’ still a thing?

    Even today in 2018 CrossFit continues to become more and more popular worldwide, I am often faced with the questions: Is CrossFit good, or is it bad? Have I done it? Would I recommend it?

  • 100 million baht of counterfeit goods seized in Patong

    Acting Immigration Police Chief Maj Gen Surachete Hakparn last night headed down to Soi Bangla and seized more than 50,000 counterfeit items with a street value of more than 100 million baht.

  • “X-Ray Outlaw Foreigners” is just racial profiling

    “X-Ray Outlaw Foreigners” is just racial profiling

    Website NewsOne publishes a stunning attack on Thailand’s racially-fueled immigration round-ups. “Thailand’s immigration crackdown has swept up refugees and asylum seekers, sent young children into horrid, prison-like conditions, and appears to have clear aspects of racial profiling against South Asians and Africans.” Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch Written By Nigel Roberts Thailand is not hiding its use of racial profiling to identify which foreigners its immigration enforcement agents are targeting for expulsion.

  • Judge delays sentencing in paedophile case

    Judge delays sentencing in paedophile case

    Jason Daron Mizner during his prison term in Thailand An Australian judge says she was left so shaken by reading out the list of paedophile’s crimes that she walked out of court to delay sentencing. She said she needed to remove emotion from the punishment she will hand out