Artikel tagged “hua hin”

  • Natural alternative to elephant tourism in Prachuap Khiri Khan

    An elephant-tourism alternative has made headlines near Hua Hin.

  • TAT criticises operators of suspended Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry

    The Tourism Authority of Thailand is criticising the operator of the Pattaya-Hua Hin ferry service over the suspension of boat trips on the grounds that it is low season and too few passengers. The Prachuap Khiri Khan Harbour Office announced this morning that the Royal Passenger Line would suspend the service from September 20 to October 31 and would resume services on November 1. However, Orasa Avudhkhom, director of the Prachuap Khiri Khan Office of TAT, says that the low season should not be a reason for suspending services

  • Railway traveller intercepted by police in Hua Hin, allegedly delivering drugs

    Railway traveller intercepted by police in Hua Hin, allegedly delivering drugs

    FILE PHOTO A man from Nakhon Si Thammarat was arrested last night (Friday) at the Hua Hin railway station aboard a train heading for the southern border town of Sungai Golok.

  • Mobile Thai passport office is a hit in Prachuap Khiri Khan

    Ban Muang is reporting that the passport office hopes to have between 3000 and 4000 Thais apply for passports at their mobile ‘issuing office’ set up at the provincial HQ in Prachuap Khiri Khan this week. This is the third time that the well-received service is in town. Ban Muang says that it will run every day until next Monday, including on the weekend.

  • 32 year old attacks ex, then abducts and rapes her

    32 year old attacks ex, then abducts and rapes her

    PHOTO: Sanook Sanook is reporting that Prachuap Khiri Khan police have arrested a 32 year old man who allegedly attacked and raped his ex girlfriend after she posted on social media that she had a new lover. Fresh out of jail after serving a three year sentence over a murder, police say that Chaiwat was drunk and armed with a knife when he went to the home of 25 year old Kusama last Sunday. He allegedly attacked her with the knife inflicting six wounds to her neck and body. Her father suffered two wounds during the attack

  • Hua Hin gets funding to expand airport

    The AoT director-general says they will spend 3.5 billion baht to upgrade Hua Hin’s International Airport over the next five years. Darun Saengchai says the upgrade was part of the “Riviera Thailand” and Southern Economic Corridor projects

  • Man ties up mother, abducts 18 year old daughter in Hua Hin

    Man ties up mother, abducts 18 year old daughter in Hua Hin

    PHOTO: Thai Rath Thai Rath is reporting that Police have arrested a man who tied up a Hua Hin cleaner then abducted her daughter from a foreigner’s house. The incident happened last Tuesday in Hua Hin. The mother and daughter were working as cleaners for the house but were confronted at knife point by the intruder. The man is reported to have tied the mother to the stairwell before attempting to sexually assault her daughter and then forcing her to drive away on the motorcycle owned by the mother. The 18 year old daughter was let go near a Car Care business and the suspect fled on the bike.

  • Khao Sam Roi Yot caves get pro-active with safety audit

    Khao Sam Roi Yot national park in Prachuap Khiri Khan province has accelerated the exploration of four caves to gather information on cave conditions as a database to determine safety measures for tourists. Khao Sam Roi Yot national park chief Rungroj Assawakultharin disclosed that Sam Roi Yot National Park is exploring those caves in order to prepare information on their current conditions. The four caves include Phraya Nakhon cave, Kaew cave, Sai cave and Men cave

  • Hmong workers victims of human trafficking – Intercepted in Prachuap Khiri Khan

    27 Hmong workers have been intercepted who appear to have been smuggled over the border near the Singkhorn crossing (a pass across the Tenasserim Hills on the border between Thailand and Myanmar in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province). Ban Muang is reporting that police, military, immigration and Prachuap Khiri Khan authorities intercepted four pick up trucks yesterday. The workers had paid 700 baht each to the person who organised the transport across the Myanmar/Thai border and were due to have been taken to Chumpon where a middle man was to transport them on to Malaysia to work.

  • Rabies confined to one puppy in Prachuap Khiri Khan

    Rabies confined to one puppy in Prachuap Khiri Khan

    PHOTO: File Photo Authorities in Prachuap Khiri Khan are playing down a rabies threat after the death of an American bulldog puppy from the disease in Kui Buri district, south of Hua Hin, last month. The Prachuap Khiri Khan Livestock Development Office says that it has found no other infected animals in the area.