Artikel erschien Juni 2019

  • Police raid Soi 6 bar in Pattaya, undercover prostitution and underage sex

    Police raid Soi 6 bar in Pattaya, undercover prostitution and underage sex

    Police in Pattaya have raided the Coming Bar in Soi 6. They allegedly uncovered evidence of prostitution and underage sex on the premises

  • Surachate won’t be returning to Royal Thai Police

    Surachate won’t be returning to Royal Thai Police

    Thailand’s deputy PM Prawit Wongsuwon has dissed rumours that former Immigration chief Surachate Hakparn is poised for a return to the Royal Thai Police. Read The Thaiger’s weekend story HERE . Over the weekend Thai media reported that the former high-profile policeman and eventual Immigration Chief, was set for a sensational return and was about to be appointed to a senior position with the police force.

  • Banned. Thai airports cracking down what you can take on board

    Banned. Thai airports cracking down what you can take on board

    Thailand’s CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) is urging airports to more strictly enforce security regulations that would prohibit a longer list of things being taken aboard. The upgraded ban covers foods, liquids and cosmetics that are now limited to containers that have a capacity of no more than 100 millilitres (a tenth of a litre). These items will be restricted and you won’t be able to take them into any of the passenger areas or on an aircraft.

  • Pedestrian and motorbike driver injured in Pattaya collision

    Pedestrian and motorbike driver injured in Pattaya collision

    PHOTOS: Pattaya Law Enforcement A pedestrian and a motorbike driver both have sustained injuries after an incident near Central Festival Pattaya yesterday. Pattaya Law Enforcement reports that the male foreign pedestrian sustained injuries after being hit by a motorbike in front of Central Festival Pattaya.

  • Poll – Will the Thai Baht rise or fall (compared to other currencies)?

    Poll – Will the Thai Baht rise or fall (compared to other currencies)?

    Yesterday The Thaiger polled our Facebook readers asking them… “Will the Thai baht continue to rise in value against many of the western currencies? Or has it peaked?” Your responses were very mixed but the result was a slight leaning towards the baht dropping, but only by 52% to 48%, from 585 votes.

  • Truck spraying stepped up to prevent swine fever from entering Thailand

    Truck spraying stepped up to prevent swine fever from entering Thailand

    Officials at the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge border checkpoint are stepping spraying and checking trucks in an attempt to prevent African Swine Fever from spreading into Thailand from bordering countries.Officials are targeting the trucks as they return from delivering live and slaughtered pigs to neighbouring nations. Chief of the Nong Khai animal quarantine office, Jongcharoen Maksuwan, says officials ramped up the disinfectant spaying following reports of a African swine fever outbreak in Laos.

  • Thai Air Asia pulling the plug on its Chiang Rai-Singapore service?

    Thai Air Asia pulling the plug on its Chiang Rai-Singapore service?

    from ttrweekly.com The Thai AirAsia’s direct flight between Chiang Rai and Singapore is unlikely to survive. That’s the outlook of travel website ttrweekly.com Launched early 2019 with little fanfare, the new international route was one of four direct services that use Chiang Rai as a hub. The others were direct flights to Kuala Lumpur, Macau and Phuket.

  • Tougher laws and bigger fines for taxi drivers who reject passengers

    Tougher laws and bigger fines for taxi drivers who reject passengers

    Mai dai! Taxi drivers who say ‘no’ to passengers will soon be liable to a fine of 5,000 baht. That’s up from 2,000 baht.

  • Suvarnabhumi’s ‘fast track’ scam exposed – AoT crackdown on Thailand’s biggest airport

    Suvarnabhumi’s ‘fast track’ scam exposed – AoT crackdown on Thailand’s biggest airport

    After allegations of massive fraud in the use of Thailand’s largest airport’s Premium Lanes at immigration, Airports of Thailand (AoT) are cracking down on the use of the so-called ‘fast lanes’ and the hawkers profiting from the reselling of the service. Only first and business class passengers, plus passengers with special needs, will be permitted to use the Premium Lane services at Suvarnabhumi International Airport from July 1, according to Manager Online. The story describes the system as a “major scam” and was netting alleged “airport mafia” amounts totalling millions of baht

  • Three suspects arrested with over 500 kilograms of kratom in Kathu, Phuket

    Three suspects arrested with over 500 kilograms of kratom in Kathu, Phuket

    Police have arrested three suspects with a total of 502 kilograms of kratom in Kathu, central Phuket.