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New VIP lane at Suvarnabhumi, as long as you’re Chinese
PHOTOS: Thai Tourist Police
Arriving on an international flight at Suvarnabhumi airport? Long lines at Immigration? No problem – please use the new special VIP lane, as long as you’re Chinese.
As the Ministry of Touristm and Sport and the Tourist Police go on a charm offensive to restore confidence in the Thai travel market, a new special Chinese Immigration line has been established at the country’s five largest airports.
Mr Everywhere, Maj Gen “Big Joke” Surachet Hakpal (who has been photographed in four different parts of the country in the last two days) and Pol Maj Gen Pritthipong Prayoonsiri at Region 2 immigration did today’s photo-opportunity honours at the opening of the new fast-track lanes. How many lanes devoted to Chinese tourists?
18 – Suvarnabhumi
21 – Don Mueang
18 – Phuket
10 – Hat Yai
8 – Chiang Mai
The Tourist Police website says that Thailand did not want to be seen as taking advantage of the Chinese. They say VIP measures were already in place to give Chinese tourists every assistance from the plane to their waiting transport outside the airport.
They said they were looking at short term and long term ideas to help address particular problems faced by Chinese tourists. There was no specific mention of the recent drop in Chinese tourists and the many cancelled travel plans to Thailand, particularly Phuket.
There are no plans for special ‘VIP’ lanes for other nationalities at this stage.
SOURCE: Thai Tourist Police, ThaiVisa
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PHOTOS: Immigration Bureau
Immigration officers at Suvarnabhumi Airport have arrested a Syrian woman with a fake Spain passport.
The Immigration Bureau reports that, while they were patrolling the airport, they found the woman who was acting suspiciously.
They asked to see her passport which had her name listed on the passport as Alampana Albana, a Spanish national. She was waiting for a flight to Germany.
Officers also found another Syrian passport which identified her name as Mrs Manal Ahmad Alnayed.
The woman admitted that the Syrian passport was her real passport. She told officers her husband, who lived in Germany, arranged it for her.
She says she purchased the fake passport in Malaysia. She received the flight tickets from a foreign woman at the KL airport.
Mrs Alnayed has been charged with illegal possession of, and using, a fake passport.
PHOTO: INN News
Immigration Officers have arrested a Spanish man after he allegedly raped a handcuffed Thai woman.
INN News reports that the 30 year old Spanish man was arrested following the issuing of an arrest warrant for the alleged rape of the woman. The incident happened last Saturday at a luxury condominium in Thong Lor, Bangkok.
The female Thai victim told officers she and her friends were drinking at an entertainment venue in Thong Lor. She went back to her room with the Spanish man.
After that the Spanish man used handcuffs with the victim before biting her neck and raping her.
Immigration Officers discovered that the Spanish man has entered Thailand 38 times in the past. He works as a marketing consultant in Spain. Police are continuing their investigation and questioning those involved.
SOURCE: INN News
A man, who had left home a month ago to live by the roadside with a stray dog in Pathum Thani, has been found dead. The dog was watching over the body when others discovered the deceased man. Pathum Thani is just north of Bangkok.
The deceased has been identified as 45 year old Surachai Khamsue. He was found lying by the side of a road in Moo 2 village in Tambon Klong Nueng, Klong Luang district, beside the old and un-roadworthy pickup that he had been using as a home.
His sister, 40 year old Chalermsri Sohsawaeng, told police that Surachai had left home to live in the car a month ago, and that she and other siblings had given him money to buy food.
Her brother liked to drink alcohol, she added. The body was sent for autopsy at Thammasat University hospital.
SOURCE: The Nation
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