Artikel erschien Dezember 2018

  • Patong’s beach road closed for an hour for new year celebrations

    Patong’s beach road closed for an hour for new year celebrations

    The Patong beach road will officially close for an hour as Patong revelers celebrate New Year 2019 at the island’s most famous beach. Thaweewong Road (Beach Road) will close from 11.30pm-12.30am. The closure is meant to be a safety measure to stop the volume of tourists and new year revelers from being run over.

  • NACC finds Prawit innocent in relation to luxury watches

    NACC finds Prawit innocent in relation to luxury watches

    “The controversy erupted late last year when Prawit showed up at a Cabinet meeting sporting a Richard Mille designer wristwatch said to be worth nearly 3 million baht.” The National Anti-Corruption Commission has ruled in favour of Deputy PM General Prawit Wongsuwan, saying he was not guilty of falsely reporting or concealing his assets. The national anti-graft commission’s secretary general Worawit Sukboon said the collection of luxury watches did indeed belong to a billionaire friend. Prawit inherited the diamond ring from his parents after he had already declared the asset

  • Two Koreans drown in freak golf buggy accident in Phitsanulok

    Two Koreans drown in freak golf buggy accident in Phitsanulok

    FILE PHOTO Two South Korean men have drowned after their golf buggy collided with one driven by their wives in northern Thailand today. The Guardian reports that the group were on a ferry on Wednesday preparing to cross the river that runs through the course in Phitsanulok province when the men were accidentally rammed by their wives in another. The impact threw them all into the muddy waters of the Nan river.

  • Deputy PM links last night’s Songkhla attack to local issues

    Deputy PM links last night’s Songkhla attack to local issues

    Deputy PM Prawit Wongsuwan, and defence minister, has linked last night’s Songkhla bomb attacks to politics in the southern province. He says he is confident that the incidents had nothing to do with insurgency in the deep South, claiming that security authorities already knew who was behind the Samila Beach attack. “The aim was to cause chaos during the New Year festival

  • Top 10 party countdowns for new years eve in Phuket 2019

    Top 10 party countdowns for new years eve in Phuket 2019

    New years eve is just around the corner. Are you ready?

  • Seven arrested with 500 kilograms of kratom in Phuket

    Seven arrested with 500 kilograms of kratom in Phuket

    Officers have arrested seven suspects in possession of 500 kilograms of kratom.

  • Blacklisted Egyptian arrested in Krabi, changed one letter in his passport name

    Blacklisted Egyptian arrested in Krabi, changed one letter in his passport name

    An Egyptian man, who had already been blacklisted for 10 years, has now been arrested in Ao Nang, Krabi after entering the country by making a minor change to his name. Krabi Immigration Police Chief Col Supparueak Pankoson says, “27 year old Egyptian man Motazz Aly Mohammed Alyelnoby was arrested on Tuesday.” “We have found that Alyelnoby was suspected of overstaying his visa in Thailand. Officers went to a house in Ao Nang.

  • Thailand’s emerging ‘go to’ location for New Year

    Thailand’s emerging ‘go to’ location for New Year

    Tokyo, Paris, New York City… and Chiang Mai. Whilst the first three are perennial favorites to ring in the new year, Chiang Mai has overtaken Thailand’s capital as THE place to be to see in 2019, according to Agoda

  • Hua Hin “full for New Year”

    Hua Hin “full for New Year”

    Talk News is reporting that a local tourism adviser was expecting 100% occupancy in Hua Hin and Cha-Am hotels at New Year.  Though it was not just foreigners but many Thais who were visiting in droves this festive season

  • Three bombs found on a Songkhla beach after blasts damage famous mermaid statue

    Three bombs found on a Songkhla beach after blasts damage famous mermaid statue

    A bomb squad has discovered three explosive devices at Samila Beach in Songkhla province, hours after two blasts damaged the landmark mermaid statue. The types of bombs are still unknown. The three explosives were found at the beach during a search after last night’s explosions