Artikel tagged “Phuket”

  • Motorcycle robbers escape with 70,000 baht from Bangkok 7-Eleven

    Motorcycle robbers escape with 70,000 baht from Bangkok 7-Eleven

    PHOTOS: khaosod.co.th Two motorcyclists have robbed a 7-Eleven store in Bangkok’s Bang Sue district and made off with 70,000 baht in cash. It follows another robbery of a 7-Eleven just one day before in Nakhon Ratchasima. Read that story HERE

  • 14 injured when Chinese tour bus flips at ‘Curve of a Hundred Corpses’ in Chiang Mai

    14 injured when Chinese tour bus flips at ‘Curve of a Hundred Corpses’ in Chiang Mai

    PHOTO: Facebook/Ruamduaychuaykan Foundation Fourteen people have been injured after a Chinese tour bus overturned at the notorious ‘Curve of a Hundred Corpses’ near Chiang Mai yesterday. All were taken to Doi Saket Hospital. Three passengers were seriously injured in the incident that happened around 3.30pm.

  • GrabCar driver allegedly assaults two Chinese in Bangkok

    GrabCar driver allegedly assaults two Chinese in Bangkok

    Police are trying to locate a GrabCar driver who allegedly punched a Chinese teacher before abandoning him and his friend on a road in Nonthaburi’s Pak Kret district in northern Bangkok. The two Chinese men, named as 30 year old Su Sihanh and 23 year old Li Mengkui say the incident happened in Soi Wat Salak Nua, Tambon Ban Mai, and that Su had suffered a bruised nose as a result. Initially reported my a military official, Pak Kret police went to the scene, found the Chinese nationals waiting and took them back to the station to hear their story.

  • Somkid blames sluggish formation of Thai government for GDP downgrading

    Somkid blames sluggish formation of Thai government for GDP downgrading

    Deputy PM Somkid Jatusripitak is saying the delay in forming Thailand’s next government caused the downgrading of the country’s GDP projections from 3.8% to 3.3%. The Bank of Thailand downgraded their forecasts at a meeting this morning.

  • Thai government announces hotel license amnesty

    Thai government announces hotel license amnesty

    by Bill Barnett, c9hotelworks.com In a significant move by Thailand’s government, a hotel licensing amnesty program has been announced on a nationwide basis. Clearly pressure by hotel owners amidst an large-scale influx of non-licensed accommodation has spurred the action.

  • Neighbours demand officials get rid of noisy and smelly birds in Hua Hin

    Neighbours demand officials get rid of noisy and smelly birds in Hua Hin

    PHOTO: Banmuang News Soldiers, police and environmentalists in central Prachuap Khiri Khan headed to a three storey property following up complaints that the building was being harvest ‘birds nests’ for Chinese restaurants.

  • Four arrested as police intercept 572 kilograms of marijuana heading south

    Four arrested as police intercept 572 kilograms of marijuana heading south

    Four suspects have been arrested after police intercepted an attempt to smuggle 572 kilograms of marijuana from Mukdahan to Songkhla. The deputy Phatthalung police chief says that two suspects were arrested in Phatthalung in a pick-up truck carrying the drugs, along with a couple who were arrested in a car that was driving ahead to advise of any checkpoints ahead

  • Thailand Post’s no-go list

    Thailand Post’s no-go list

    Twenty years ago postal services were thought to he going out of fashion as email and social media began to replace people sending letters in the post. But that’s all changed now as online retail services are making the world’s postal services busier than ever. Including Thailand Post

  • 49 year old Israeli, deported after dismembering wife in Bangkok, arrested in eastern Thailand

    49 year old Israeli, deported after dismembering wife in Bangkok, arrested in eastern Thailand

    PHOTO: INN News The immigration chief told media yesterday that an Israeli man convicted for dismembering his wife and dumping her body parts back in 2004, has been caught in Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district, near the Cambodian border, at the Rong Kleua market. 49 year old Eli Cohen was sentenced to life in prison in December 2004 for murdering his wife, cutting her up and putting her remains in a suitcase

  • 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.