Artikel erschien März 2018

  • Pet registration on the way

    Pet registration on the way

    It looks like Thailand is going to get tough on people who abandon their pets and also provide better control for disease outbreaks like the current Rabies infections around the Kingdom. New laws are being proposed that will require pet owners to register and microchip their animals.

  • Phuket thief arrested after robbing Cherng Talay convenient store

    Phuket thief arrested after robbing Cherng Talay convenient store

    A 50 year old local man, Jamlaeng Thatiebthong, has been arrested by Cherng Talay police after robbing a convenient store using a fake gun yesterday (March 13). After checking the CCTV camera, police were able to track the route he took with his motorcycle, which is Ban Don – Ban Ya – Ban Pon – Thepkasattri – Koh Kaew – shortcut near Tin Mine Museum and finally Kathu, where is house is located.

  • Phuket drugs dealer arrested

    Phuket drugs dealer arrested

    A 42 year old local woman, Wattanee ‘Nong’ Hansamut, has been arrested with 5,043 amphetamine pills and 666.40 grams of methamphetamine, which are worth about 2 million Baht on the street. Wichit Police received a report on March 11 that Wattanee, who lives in the Phuket Villa Suanluang house project, was taking and selling drugs to small retailers in Phuket. Police arrested her near her house and she confessed that she receives and resells drugs

  • Only a tiny fraction of BKK pets registered as being vaccinated against Rabies

    Only a tiny fraction of BKK pets registered as being vaccinated against Rabies

    Only 5,193 of Bangkok’s 1.136 million stray and pet dogs and cats are registered as having been vaccinated against rabies, a senior Agriculture Ministry official said this morning (Wednesday). Ministry spokesman and inspector-general Sorawit Thanito said only 6,233 pet cats and dogs were registered with authorities in the capital and 1,266 of them had been sterilised

  • THAIGER TODAY Wednesday, March 14

    THAIGER TODAY Wednesday, March 14

    Rabies situation ‘under control’ | Motorbike driver lucky to walk away from accident | No toilets at tsunami museum | BKK motor tollways free over Songkran | Prosecution case ready over Toyota Thai Football League match-fixing | FBI attempts to interview ‘sex-therapist’ couple who ‘know things’ | Indian man and Thai accomplice arrested over visa scam. The post THAIGER TODAY Wednesday, March 14 appeared first on Phuket Gazette

  • Pattaya police on the hunt for ‘amorous couple’

    Pattaya police on the hunt for ‘amorous couple’

    Tourist police are trying to locate and take legal action against a foreign couple who were caught on video having sex on Dong Tan beach in Pattaya City. The couple appear in a 31 second clip that was taken at 8am on Sunday and widely shared on social networks.

  • “Your white handsome man is really a dark skinned scammer!” Tourist police warning

    “Your white handsome man is really a dark skinned scammer!” Tourist police warning

    The Thai tourist police have produced a Facebook warning for Thai women about Romance Scams. One of the frames shows a cartoon white man who they say is handsome and rich

  • Kratom delivery kills two

    Kratom delivery kills two

    A car transporting Kratom leaves crashed into an innocent pedestrian then careered into a drain, killing both victim and driver this morning (March 13) in Krabi Province. A 31 year old man from Sadao, Songkhla, Kusol Kaewrattana, lost control of his Toyota Fortuner that was transporting 30 sacks of Kratom leaves and crashed into 68 year old Lek Sae-Iew, who was walking out from a restaurant nearby.

  • Tourist facilities lacking at Khao Lak tsunami museum

    Tourist facilities lacking at Khao Lak tsunami museum

    By Another Ngandee Tourists are still visiting the tsunami memorial monument and museum at Khao Lak beach in Phang Nga’s Takua Pa district 13 years after the event, but there is no toilet facilities to serve them, a tourist guide has complained. The guide posted on her Facebook wall that she took 11 Japanese tourists to visit the monument, which is situated near where patrol boat 813 was washed ashore by the tsunami.

  • Green sea turtle exhausted after laying eggs

    Green sea turtle exhausted after laying eggs

    Mu Ko Similan National Park officers rescued a mother green sea turtle who laid eggs earlier on Nui Beach but was too exhausted to walk back to the sea.