Artikel erschien Juni 2019

  • Three arrested with over 12,000 meth pills and crystal meth in Thalang, Phuket

    Three arrested with over 12,000 meth pills and crystal meth in Thalang, Phuket

    Three drug suspects have been arrested with a total of 12,277 methamphetamine pills and 1.8 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine (ice) in Thalang. Thalang Police raided a house in Thalang where they arrested Yuttapong Kenson. Police seized 1.8 grams of crystal methamphetamine and 10,746 methamphetamine pills.

  • 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.

  • 17 year old dies while fishing in Krabi pond

    17 year old dies while fishing in Krabi pond

    PHOTO: View from the Khao Ngon Nak viewpoint, Krabi A teenager has drowned while fishing with a friend at a pond in a Krabi national park. The Haad Nopparat Thara-Mu Koh Phi Phi National Park rangers recovered the body of Jessada Ngafah, a 16 year old male, at 2.30am this morning. Rangers were working at an office near the Khao Ngon Nak viewpoint when they were informed that Jessada had disappeared in the pond nearby. They found his shoulder bag containing a phone and his sandals at the edge of the pond

  • Retribution: Pattaya police chief transferred, foreign bar owners deported

    Retribution: Pattaya police chief transferred, foreign bar owners deported

    Pattaya’s police chief has been transferred, the foreign bar owners are being deported and will be blacklisted. This has been the swift retribution for local senior police and the owners of ‘Coming Bar’ for allowing prostitution and under-age sex on their premises. In addition, the Bang Lamung district police chief says the offending bar will be shut for five years for “damaging the image of tourism in Pattaya and Thailand”

  • Phuket’s tourist evolution – Diversity is the best option Part 1

    Phuket’s tourist evolution – Diversity is the best option Part 1

    by Guest Writer Today’s guest writer has been managing resorts around Phuket for two decades and has represented his brand at international expos along with promotions for Phuket over the years. His knowledge is first-hand and steeped in local experience

  • 83 year old goes missing during Phang Nga mangrove expedition

    83 year old goes missing during Phang Nga mangrove expedition

    FILE PHOTO A man disappeared after rowing his boat to a mangrove area along the coast of Phang Nga’s Takua Thung district yesterday. Surat Sumalee, head of Ban Sam Chong Nua village in Tambon Kalai, sent out a search party of two dozen villagers after being informed at 6.40pm that 83 year old Wanmad Tonklung didn’t return from his trip

  • Cloud looms over 41 Thai MPs in media-shares fiasco

    Cloud looms over 41 Thai MPs in media-shares fiasco

    PHOTO: Future Forward’s Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit The Constitutional Court is sitting today to consider whether they’ll accept petitions against 41 newly elected MPs accused by the Future Forward party of breaching media shareholding rules.

  • Sea turtle rescued from sea garbage off Phuket – VIDEO

    Sea turtle rescued from sea garbage off Phuket – VIDEO

    PHOTOS: Marokus Chundee / Koh Racha Lifeguards A sea turtle has been rescued from sea garbage off the coast of Koh Racha, south of Phuket, yesterday. At about noon lifeguards on Koh Racha were helping to bring a big pile of sea garbage back to the beach. In amongst all the flotsam and jetsam they found a sea turtle stuck in fishing nets.

  • Tsunami evacuation drill held in Patong, Phuket

    Tsunami evacuation drill held in Patong, Phuket

    The siren sounded, a tsunami was on the way and people had to evacuate from Phuket’s Patong Beach. Some people were so enthusiastic about the practice drill they started running from the beach before the siren was even sounded

  • Facial recognition security push in Thailand’s South

    Facial recognition security push in Thailand’s South

    Concerns are being raised over the move to force all mobile phone users in Thailand’s South to submit their photos for facial-recognition identification. The edict says those who fail to do so by October 31 will have their mobile phone service blocked. The Cross Cultural Foundation says the order given to Thailand’s telecom operators was ‘racial profiling’. “The use of facial-recognition technology risks violating people’s privacy and freedom.