Artikel erschien Juni 2019

  • ‘Fahsai’ is the new Miss Thailand Universe

    ‘Fahsai’ is the new Miss Thailand Universe

    Thai-Canadian Paweensuda ‘Fahsai’ Drouin has been crowned Miss Thailand Universe 2019. Judges chose 26 year old Paweensuda, 26 from more than 50 other contestants in the pageant’s final round at the Thunder Dome in Bangkok last night (Saturday). Miriam Sornprommas was first runner-up and Thanatchaphon Boonsang second runner-up. Paweensuda is 180 centimetres tall, was born and raised in Canada and her father is Canadian (which makes her Canadian?)

  • 20 smuggled Burmese, including children, found in locked Songkhla warehouse

    20 smuggled Burmese, including children, found in locked Songkhla warehouse

    b y Santiparp Ramasutra Songkhla Police, in Thailand’s deep south, have rescued 20 scared and hungry Burmese, victims of traffickers who’d locked them inside a warehouse on the Thai-Malaysian border. Residents say they heard the sound of children crying for several days in the usually deserted warehouse in the Sadao district. Pol General Suchart Thirasawat, an inspector-general in charge of an anti-trafficking unit, led the rescue operation last night (Saturday). “We found the building heavily locked from outside and could we hear women and children crying inside,” he said

  • Wayward rocket lands in passenger seat of pick-up in Roi-et during annual rocket festival

    Wayward rocket lands in passenger seat of pick-up in Roi-et during annual rocket festival

    A local north-east rocket festival entry has made an unexpected landing, into trees hanging over a road, then dropping straight into the passenger seat of a passing pick-up. The rocket, part of the annual Bun Bang Fai rocket festival in Suwannaphum district of Roi-Et, was a wayward entry that ended up in a tree after being launched. Over the two days of this years festival some 30 home-made rockets are fired into the skies to encourage the ‘water gods’ to start dropping rain on the north-easter rice-growing plains

  • Two suspects in custody after Surat Thani police officer killed during drug sting

    Two suspects in custody after Surat Thani police officer killed during drug sting

    PHOTO: The car that ran over Pol Sen Sgt Maj Poonkrit Buakaeo was found on Friday morning – Supapong Chaolan The body of a police officer, killed on duty during a drug sting in Surat Thani on Thursday evening, was repatriated to his home province of Nakhon Si Thammarat for religious ceremonies yesterday. Meanwhile two suspects accused of killing the officer have surrendered to police in Phrasaeng district, in the west of Surat Thani province

  • 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.

  • Thai PM to visit Phuket for the opening of the Chalong Underpass

    Thai PM to visit Phuket for the opening of the Chalong Underpass

    PHOTO: Happy memories for residents in the south of Phuket during the construction phase of the underpass. During this period the Chalong Circle was nicknamed by locals as the Chalong Car Park. The Thai PM is heading to Phuket to officiate at the opening of the long-awaited Chalong Underpass, as well as attend some other meetings during the day.

  • Burmese migrants released from Thai prison after murder convictions overturned

    Burmese migrants released from Thai prison after murder convictions overturned

    By Nyein Nyein – The Irrawaddy | PHOTO: Facebook/Htoo Chit Two Burmese migrants, serving six and eight year sentences for the alleged murder of a Thai woman in Ranong, southern Thailand in 2015, have won their appeal in a Thai court. Sein Kadone and Wai Lin, who received eight and six year sentences, respectively, have been in prison for three years and eight months.

  • Future Forward MP uncover new ‘Ja New’ assault video

    Future Forward MP uncover new ‘Ja New’ assault video

    PHOTOS and VIDEO: Facebook/Rangsiman Rome A Future Forward Party MP says they’ve got their hands on CCTV footage which shows four men violently attacking Thai political activist Sirawith “Ja New” Seritiwat. The anti-Junta activist has been the subject or earlier assaults and many threats. The attack happened on a main road in Bangkok yesterday

  • Police raid Khon Kaen factory over Doraemon copyright violation

    Police raid Khon Kaen factory over Doraemon copyright violation

    Police arrested a business owner and seven employees after they found 300,000 baht worth of illegally-manufactured goods in her warehouse in Khon Kaen’s Chumpae district that violated the ‘Doraemon’ copyright. Doraemon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F

  • High-speed rail airport link contracts to be signed next month

    High-speed rail airport link contracts to be signed next month

    The Eastern Economic Corridor Policy Committee has reported progress in the high-speed rail project to link three airports (Suvarnabhumi, U-Tapao and Don Mueang), and the Map Ta Phut industrial port development project.