Artikel erschien Juni 2019

  • Formal complaint made about Phuket OrBorTor chief for inaction over environmental issues

    Formal complaint made about Phuket OrBorTor chief for inaction over environmental issues

    Danai Yardee and Chamroon Kerndum, representing a group of Phuket environmental groups, have made a formal complaint against Cherng Talay President Ma ‘Ann Samran. The complaint calls for investigation into the construction of an anti-erosion sea wall at Surin Beach, unfinished wastewater treatment plants and alleged tampering of evidence.

  • Malaysian diplomat visits Thailand’s deep South to resume peace talks

    Malaysian diplomat visits Thailand’s deep South to resume peace talks

    PHOTO: Tan Sri Abdul Rahim bin Mohammad Noor arrives for talks with Lt-Gen Pornsak Poonsawat, commander of Thailand’s Fourth Army Region – Thai PBS The nominated Malaysian facilitator to continue ongoing peace talks between the Thai government and Mara Patani, an umbrella organisation for Thailand’s separatist groups in the Deep South, wraps up a two day visit to the region today. The visit was the first by Malaysia’s former police chief, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim bin Mohammad Noor, since he was appointed to the post.

  • Pattaya International Music Festival 2019 – Make it a date

    Pattaya International Music Festival 2019 – Make it a date

    This year the annual Pattaya Music Festival takes place on June 14 and 15 along Pattaya Beach Road, Pattaya. Dates were postponed to June, instead of March as in previous years, so that the event is held as part of the 60 th  anniversary of Pattaya tourism. Started in 2002, the Pattaya International Music Festival is a celebration of music

  • Thai boat captain says he was paid 100,000 baht to ferry Rohingya to Malaysia

    Thai boat captain says he was paid 100,000 baht to ferry Rohingya to Malaysia

    by The Nation Authorities are speculating that a group of 65 Rohingya and five other Burmese men may have been trafficked from Bangladesh where an estimated million people are sheltering as refugees. The Thai captain, of the boat that washed up on a southern Thai island on tuesday, has already admitted that he was paid to take them across the Andaman Sea to Malaysia

  • Malaysian PM dismisses gay sex video implicating his cabinet minister

    Malaysian PM dismisses gay sex video implicating his cabinet minister

    Malaysian PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad has dismissed the ‘gay sex romp’ videos implicating his Economics Af­­fairs Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali with another man. “This is done by people who have political agendas,” said the PM after attending a fund-­rai­sing event last night. “Things like these are dirty

  • 45 year old British man found dead at Koh Chang luxury hotel

    45 year old British man found dead at Koh Chang luxury hotel

    PHOTO: Tourist Police Bureau A British man has been found dead in front of his hotel room on Koh Chang. Koh Chang is in Thailand’s far east, off the coast of Trat. The 45 year old tourist died near a swimming pool at the Sea View Koh Chang Hotel, according to tourist police

  • Police seeking two men over Bang Na gang shooting

    Police seeking two men over Bang Na gang shooting

    by Kornkamon Aksorndech – The Nation Police are seeking the arrest of two men over last Monday’s shooting of a rival gang in Soi Lasalle 19 in Bangkok’s Bang Na district. Officers say the long-haired suspect, caught on video, is 30 year old Prasertsak Singsopa, and 19 year old Peerapol Poungburi. Their alleged accomplice, 30 year old Jaturong Eiumtuam, turned himself in to police on Tuesday night. The shooting was at around 5pm on Monday and started when Peerapol, with a 15 year old male passenger, collided on his motorcycle with a gang of 12 rivals with four motorcycles. The two teens were chased and cornered by the rival group who was about to attack them with knives.

  • Poll shows most respondents don’t believe Future Forward bribe claims

    Poll shows most respondents don’t believe Future Forward bribe claims

    PHOTO: prachatai.com More than 53% of respondents to a recent poll don’t believe the claim that the Future Forward party made in the days before last week’s parliametrary vote for the PM, that they had been offered millions of baht for their supporting votes.

  • Drug smugglers get away but police seize their pickup stuffed with meth pills and ‘ice’

    Drug smugglers get away but police seize their pickup stuffed with meth pills and ‘ice’

    PHOTOS: The Nation Drug smugglers have abandoned their pickup and a huge cache of drugs following a high-speed chase through the hills of Chiang Rai early yesterday morning.

  • Malaysian gay sex video scandal – Cabinet Minister named

    Malaysian gay sex video scandal – Cabinet Minister named

    Malaysian politics has been thrown into a tizz today as a gay sex video scandal has become the talk of the country. Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz, the senior private secretary to Deputy Primary Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, also named the Malaysian cabinet minister with him in the video and said he was “not fit to be a leader”.