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  • Pedestrian and motorbike driver injured in Pattaya collision

    Pedestrian and motorbike driver injured in Pattaya collision

    PHOTOS: Pattaya Law Enforcement A pedestrian and a motorbike driver both have sustained injuries after an incident near Central Festival Pattaya yesterday. Pattaya Law Enforcement reports that the male foreign pedestrian sustained injuries after being hit by a motorbike in front of Central Festival Pattaya.

  • Poll – Will the Thai Baht rise or fall (compared to other currencies)?

    Poll – Will the Thai Baht rise or fall (compared to other currencies)?

    Yesterday The Thaiger polled our Facebook readers asking them… “Will the Thai baht continue to rise in value against many of the western currencies? Or has it peaked?” Your responses were very mixed but the result was a slight leaning towards the baht dropping, but only by 52% to 48%, from 585 votes.

  • Truck spraying stepped up to prevent swine fever from entering Thailand

    Truck spraying stepped up to prevent swine fever from entering Thailand

    Officials at the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge border checkpoint are stepping spraying and checking trucks in an attempt to prevent African Swine Fever from spreading into Thailand from bordering countries.Officials are targeting the trucks as they return from delivering live and slaughtered pigs to neighbouring nations. Chief of the Nong Khai animal quarantine office, Jongcharoen Maksuwan, says officials ramped up the disinfectant spaying following reports of a African swine fever outbreak in Laos.

  • Thai Air Asia pulling the plug on its Chiang Rai-Singapore service?

    Thai Air Asia pulling the plug on its Chiang Rai-Singapore service?

    from ttrweekly.com The Thai AirAsia’s direct flight between Chiang Rai and Singapore is unlikely to survive. That’s the outlook of travel website ttrweekly.com Launched early 2019 with little fanfare, the new international route was one of four direct services that use Chiang Rai as a hub. The others were direct flights to Kuala Lumpur, Macau and Phuket.

  • Tougher laws and bigger fines for taxi drivers who reject passengers

    Tougher laws and bigger fines for taxi drivers who reject passengers

    Mai dai! Taxi drivers who say ‘no’ to passengers will soon be liable to a fine of 5,000 baht. That’s up from 2,000 baht.

  • Suvarnabhumi’s ‘fast track’ scam exposed – AoT crackdown on Thailand’s biggest airport

    Suvarnabhumi’s ‘fast track’ scam exposed – AoT crackdown on Thailand’s biggest airport

    After allegations of massive fraud in the use of Thailand’s largest airport’s Premium Lanes at immigration, Airports of Thailand (AoT) are cracking down on the use of the so-called ‘fast lanes’ and the hawkers profiting from the reselling of the service. Only first and business class passengers, plus passengers with special needs, will be permitted to use the Premium Lane services at Suvarnabhumi International Airport from July 1, according to Manager Online. The story describes the system as a “major scam” and was netting alleged “airport mafia” amounts totalling millions of baht

  • Three suspects arrested with over 500 kilograms of kratom in Kathu, Phuket

    Three suspects arrested with over 500 kilograms of kratom in Kathu, Phuket

    Police have arrested three suspects with a total of 502 kilograms of kratom in Kathu, central Phuket.

  • Chiang Mai’s red bus drivers plan mass protest against Grab

    Chiang Mai’s red bus drivers plan mass protest against Grab

    The war to dominate Chiang Mai’s local public transport sector is hotting up with the drivers of the city’s Rot Daeng vans (red song taews) planning a mass protest against the growing popularity of the Grab Taxis. Sanook reports that Bunniam Buntha, representing Chiang Mai’s Rot Daeng drivers, says they plan to assemble the 2,465 members in a mass protest

  • Weather warning for Thailand’s southern provinces

    Weather warning for Thailand’s southern provinces

    Thailand’s wet-season is forecast to be ‘wet’ in the south for the next few days. The Thai Meteorological Department has issued its 3rd consecutive weather warning in the past 24 hours to alert residents of heavy rain in the Southern provinces, strong winds and high seas. In the latest warning issued this morning at 6am, the TMD reported that, until June 27, the strong southwest monsoon will prevail over the Andaman Sea, the South and the Gulf of Thailand.

  • Phang Nga governor declares flood disaster zones in Thailand’s south

    Phang Nga governor declares flood disaster zones in Thailand’s south

    PHOTOS: ศูนย์ปฏิบัติการข้อมูล The Phang Nga provincial administration has declared five flooded districts in the province as disaster zones to speed up assistance to affected residents. Phang Nga’s governor Siripat Pattanakul said the districts of Kapong, Thay Muang, Takua Pa, Muang and Takua Thung are now declared disaster zones following weekend flooding that’s affected 1,700 people from 442 families