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4 Men arrested with more than 1,400 amphetamine pills in Kathu
As part of the Phuket police crackdown on drugs on the island, Kathu police have arrested 4 drug dealers with more than 1,400 methamphetamine pills. The first man arrested was 34 year old Isara Plaikaew with 4 amphetamine pills. He was arrested in Soi Petch Lohlien on April 17. The following men were arrested in the same house in Soi…
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The ‘dirty’ coffee from Vietnam contains manganese dioxide
PHOTO: Dak Nong Police Further to yesterday’s revelation about fake coffee being manufactured and sold from a make-shift factory in Vietnam, this analysis from a Chemist at the Vietnam National University. Associate Professor Tran Hong Con, a chemistry expert from the Vietnam National University, says the black substance found in D batteries is a toxic chemical called manganese dioxide. Manganese dioxide…
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5 young revellers killed, 4 injured as pickup flips in Sa Kaeo during local Songkran celebrations
Five teenagers have been killed and four others injured after a speeding pickup truck returning from Sa Kaeo’s Songkran celebration flipped and slid into a roadside ditch last night. Sa Kaeo’s Songkran celebration was held yesterday (Thursday), later than other provinces. Pol Colonel Setthanat Timwat, commander of Wang Nam Yen police station, said the accident happened at 9.50pm on Khao…
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Officials seize 12 tonnes of fake ‘coffee’ laced with hazardous materials
Here’s something to contemplate next time you’re about to enjoy your next caffeine-fix. Vietnam’s Tuoi Tre News daily newspaper is reporting that a family-run coffee producer in Vietnam’s Dak Nong province has been caught manufacturing coffee laced with harmful ingredients from used batteries, dirt and rock dust and black dye. Vietnamese authorities say they seized about 12 tonnes of dangerous…
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Private investors being wooed over planned marina for Samui
Samui is looking to establish the island’s first marina and is currently looking to investors for the project in the Gulf of Thailand. Asia Pacific Superyachts reports that Koh Samui has succeeded in attracting international five-star brands, a strong luxury villas market as well as quality golf courses. The report says that superyacht sailors are now coming to the region…
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Police make two arrests over travel scams
The owner of a Thai tour company has been arrested for deceiving 33 tourists left abandoned in Osaka, Japan last February. Tourist Police deputy chief Pol Maj Gen Surachet Hakpal says that 35 year old Sonthaya Phosri had been arrested the day before under a warrant issued by the Thonburi district court. He was charged with cheating 33 Thai tourists…
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Brunei woman drowns in Ao Nang, Krabi
A 60 year old Brunei woman, PG HJH Jamilah PG HJ Othman, drowned at Gai Island in the Had Nopparat Thara National Park – Mu Ko Phi Phi. Apparently she lost consciousness whilst wearing a life vest swimming in the water yesterday (April 18). Her husband went to Krabi Hospital to pick up her body today (April 19) for the…
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Big drug crackdown in Thalang
Thalang police have arrested a local drug dealer, 24 year old Saowarak ‘Tah’ Oamsin, with 4,548 amphetamine pills and 136.55 grams of crystal methamphetamine. She was arrested in a house in Paklok after police received a report from undercover officers in the area that she was selling drugs to local juveniles regularly. At the house, police found the drugs, a…
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Close the beach, put up signs. Hua Hin tackles a one-in-2-million chance.
Shark prevention measures will be introduced in the resort town of Hua Hin after a Norwegian tourist was bitten by a bull shark, even though a marine biologist says there was only a one-in-2-million chance of someone being attacked by a shark. Prachuap Khiri Khan’s deputy governor Chotnarin Kerdsom has confirmed what experts have already validated – a Norwegian tourist…
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66 more foreigners arrested in nationwide crackdown
FILE PHOTO: The Nation Tourist police have arrested 66 more foreigners during crackdowns around the country last night (Wednesday). Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpal, deputy tourist police chief spoke whilst in Soi Cowboy off Sukhumvit Road early this morning to announce the results of the operation. He said 11 foreigners were arrested for overstaying their visas and 51 others for unlawfully…
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Phuket airport runway to be closed for maintenance
Phuket International Airport Director, Petch Chancharoen, has announced that some runways and taxiways will be closed from April 27 – May 8 for 6 hours each day for cleaning and maintenance. The closing time of the runways and taxiways will start 30 minutes after midnight – 06.30am on each of the repair days. Also, the taxiway “P” will be closed…
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PM appoints two new ex-politicians as advisors
The PM is starting to surround himself with more politicians and fewer Army people in the lead up next year’s planned election. The PM, who has always described himself as ‘not a politician’, is showing all the signs of strategically aligning himself with the right people to make him a choice as ‘outside PM’ should the new lower house not…
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Pervert cameraman scares woman in Krabi
A 37 year old woman, Parinda Asapa, contacted Ao Nang Police after she discovered a man taking a video of her taking a shower. She said that she lives in a rented flat in Ao Nang and at about 10.15 pm last night (April 17), she was taking a shower and noticed a man standing behind the wall of the…
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Passenger nearly gets sucked out of broken Southwest Airlines 737 window
A Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 took off from LaGuardia Airport at 10:27am and landed in Philadelphia about 11:23am. The Boeing 737 was heading to Dallas with 144 passengers and five crew members. For the first 20 minutes, everything seemed calm. Then “a loud boom” suddenly jolted the plane according to passenger Marty Martinez. In what appears to be a turbine blade…
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2 road deaths during Phuket’s Songkran ‘Seven Dangerous Days’
Phuket police have announced 2 deaths and 48 injuries from 47 road accident during this year’s extended Songkran Festival and the holiday from April 11 – 17. The official reporting period finished at midnight last night (Tuesday). There were also 39,901 vehicles checked and 11,770 cases of people breaking 10 different driving laws during the 7 days. There were also…
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Rassada phone robbers arrested – 31 phones recovered
The two phone shop robbers have been arrested today (April 18) after robbing more than 60 phones. The phone shop in Rassada named ‘No.1’ was robbed on April 10 by 38 year old Chok-Anan Chaisongkram and his brother-in-law, Leng Permthong. They got in through the ceiling of the shop and removed the server of a CCTV camera. However, one of…
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Russian robber in Krabi arrested for stealing iPhone X
Police have arrested a 34 year old Russian man, Aleksei Posysaev, today (April 18) after he stole an iPhone X from a clothes shop in Ao Nang, Krabi. Earlier, the clothes shop owner, Netdao Wiwatratsamee, posted the CCTV footage of the robbery on social media and offered a 5,000 Baht reward to whoever leads to the robber and his family…
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The Thailand Travel Mart heads to Pattaya this June
Pattaya will host the annual Thailand Travel Mart this June. The show was hosted in Pattaya back in 2001, followed by years in Bangkok before it moved to Chiang Mai in 2016 for a two-year stint. Now the annual B2B event, that showcases travel content from across the country and neighbours in the Mekong Region, moves south to Pattaya’s Ocean…
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The Blue Horizon World Corporate Golf Challenge 2018 qualifying series in Phuket is now complete
The Blue Horizon World Corporate Golf Challenge 2018 qualifying series is now complete with Qualifier 6 in Phuket. A solid field of 24 teams arrived at Laguna Golf Phuket with hopes of taking one of the final 3 spots in the final at the end of April. The highlight of the day was no doubt Andrew De Bruin, getting a…
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M comes to your Facebook Messenger
“M” is Jame’s Bond’s boss. But starting today, M is also an AI smart assistant embedded in Facebook Messenger in Thailand. Artificial intelligence and intuitive technology are becoming increasingly popular in new Apps and updates. Initially launched in April last year in the US, M has been providing people with suggestions, enriching the way people interact on the Messenger App.…
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“You’ve got a better chance of winning the lottery,” Dr Thon Thamrongnawasawat
Screenshot from Dr. Thon’s video Dr. Thon Thamrongnawasawat of the Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart University, Bangkok says you have a bigger chance of winning the lottery or being run down by a charging buffalo than being bitten by a shark in Thailand. Dr. Thon’s message was loud and clear – don’t worry about sharks. Not to mention Thai roads and…
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300,000 baht stolen – 5,000 baht reimbursed
FILE PHOTO Thai Channel 7 TV is reporting a story about safes being removed from hotel rooms in Bangkok last Friday. According to the story there were two safes removed from the Sukhumvit road hotels, along with 300,000 baht, passports and documents. But, according to the law, the hotel were only obliged to reimburse the victims 5,000 baht in compensation.…
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“Norwegian tourist bitten by a bull shark,” Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Centre
A fisheries expert claims the tourist that was bitten over the weekend by something off beaches south of Hua Hin, was attacked by a bull shark, a shark which can be found in warm and shallow water in the Gulf of Thailand. Earlier story HERE. Watchara Sakornwimon, a veterinarian of the Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Centre, says…
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Day Six – Eight accidents but no deaths on Phuket’s roads
Six days official reporting down and Phuket’s road toll remains at one. One too many, but still an improvement on past years over the Songkran seven day reporting period. During the Monday 24 hour reporting period there were five accidents in the Muang District, three in Kathu and Thalang registering no accidents at all. Police issued 1,880 fines according to…
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Shark fever hits Hua Hin as experts investigate
Authorities in Hua Hin are sending a team of experts to check out the waters off Sai Noi beach, south of Hua Hin, after two days of speculation that a tourist was bitten by a shark. The Marine and Coastal Resources Department is dispatching officers in a bid to allay people’s fears. Reports of the shark attack went viral since…
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Prawit denies any health problems
Deputy PM and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan is denying having any health problems. “I am not ill, as you can see now,” said Prawit, who is in charge of the government’s security affairs. During the long Songkran holidays there had been media reports quoting PM General Prayut Chan-o-cha, that his deputy was ill and had received treatment for heart…
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Acrylic paint used for ‘splashing’ during Songkran in Nai Yang
Three car owners have reported to Saku Police that their cars were splashed by acrylic paint when they were driving past the Songkran zone at Nai Yang Beach on April 13, Songkran day. A famous Thai Facebook page named ‘queentogetherisone’ posted one of the cases in Phuket showing the pictures of thick globs of paint on the cars with an…
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Family ‘gang’ rob shop in Krabi
A video from CCTV camera footage shot at a clothes shop in Ao Nang, Krabi, shows a 1.32 minutes recording of a family of 3 – father, mother and a son, all western in appearance – stealing an iPhone X from the owner of the shop while pretending to be buyers. The person who posted the video on social media…
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Former Thai boxer arrested for robbery
Chalong Police have arrested 27 year old Watchara Suwan, a former Thai boxing fighter, after robbing a Russian woman. The 27 year old Russian, Maria Koldaeva, reported to the police that she was riding on his motorcycle from Nai Harn Lake and when they arrived near the football field near Promthep Cape, he stopped the vehicle and grabbed her gold…
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Belarusian prostitute has her day in BKK court
Anastasia Vashukevich, the Belarusian model and self-branded sex-guru detained in Bangkok, who made extravagant claims about alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, is due in court today. She has offered to dump on several Russian businessmen linked with Russian President Putin with alleged links to US businessmen and politicians close to the US President. Anastasia Vashukevich, AKA Nastya Rybka, was…
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