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  • Bangkok NewsWoman runs drug syndicate from Bangkok prison
    Caitlin AshworthPublished: 11:25, 19 June 2020
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    Woman runs drug syndicate from Bangkok prison

    Police cracked down on a drug network allegedly and discovered that it was being run by a female inmate in the Bangkok Remand Prison, using a gold shop to launder more than 3 billion baht in illegal drug money. The woman, Daorueng Somsaeng, as well as 9 other inmates in various jails and prisons across Thailand, are facing money laundering…

  • Politics NewsThai LGBT advocates push for equal rights for same-sex marriage
    Caitlin AshworthPublished: 16:18, 18 June 2020
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    Thai LGBT advocates push for equal rights for same-sex marriage

    LGBT equality advocates are calling on Thailand to allow same-sex marriage, asking that laws regarding marriage simply change the words “man and woman” so same-sex couples can have the same rights as traditional married couples. A Civil Partnership Bill allows same-sex couples to register in a civil union, but the so-called “partnerships” are not treated the same as marriages. If…

  • ExpatsThailand renews cap on permanent residency applications
    Maya TaylorPublished: 11:59, 11 June 2020
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    Thailand renews cap on permanent residency applications

    The Thai government has once again capped the number of expats who can apply for permanent residency in 2020 at 100 per nationality, rising to 150 in the case of stateless individuals. The quota remains the same as in previous years and has now been confirmed by Immigration officials. PM Prayut Chan-o-cha signed the order and it has now been…

  • Business NewsThai Airways petitions overseas creditors not to confiscate its aircraft
    Maya TaylorPublished: 10:07, 10 June 2020
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    Thai Airways petitions overseas creditors not to confiscate its aircraft

    Thailand’s beloved but beleaguered national carrier is appealing to creditors in Switzerland, Japan and Germany not to seize its aircraft, while a similar request is being prepared for US creditors. If each country’s court approves the petition, Thai Airways assets will be protected against seizure when they fly into their jurisdictions. In particular, the airline will not risk having its…

  • Crime NewsDespite vindication, “Rolex General” is back in the hot seat
    ThaigerPublished: 15:21, 31 May 2020
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    Despite vindication, “Rolex General” is back in the hot seat

    Deputy PM Prawit Wongsuwon, dubbed “The Rolex General” after a scandal over luxury watches, is once again in the spotlight. Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission has been criticised for subverting the system of checks and balances of politicians and high ranking officials. Its explanation about Prawit’ “borrowed” luxury watches has drawn scrutiny and criticism. The explanation came in a letter dated…

  • Thailand NewsImmigration police catch 54 illegal immigrants at Thai-Cambodia border
    Maya TaylorPublished: 12:46, 29 May 2020
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    Immigration police catch 54 illegal immigrants at Thai-Cambodia border

    Thai immigration police have arrested a Cambodian man along with 53 other Cambodian nationals he had smuggled across the border into Thailand. The arrests took place in the province of Sa Kaeo, about 200 kilometres east of Bangkok. The man, named as 46 year old La Peun, confessed to police that the migrants had paid him 3,000 baht each to…

  • Covid-19 NewsBangkok’s UK visa application centre to reopen
    ThaigerPublished: 16:27, 28 May 2020
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    Bangkok’s UK visa application centre to reopen

    Below is the text of a press release from the British Embassy, lightly edited for brevity: “On June 1, UK Visas and Immigration will begin a phased resumption of services and our main Visa Application Centre in Bangkok (The Trendy Office Building, 28th Floor Sukhumvit Soi 13, Klongtoey-Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110) will be open. Customers who were unable to attend…

  • Bangkok NewsWoman charged after abandoning cats at Wat Pho
    Caitlin AshworthPublished: 17:07, 26 May 2020
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    Woman charged after abandoning cats at Wat Pho

    A Bangkok woman has been fined after she tossed five bags, each containing a cat, over a wall and into Wat Pho on Sunday evening. Maybe she thought she was doing a good deed by dumping the cats off at the Bangkok temple, but she was dressed like a common thief working at night. Videos show her dressed in all…

  • Northern Thailand NewsPolice arrest 3 involved in mystery woman’s marijuana syndicate
    Caitlin AshworthPublished: 14:05, 22 May 2020
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    Police arrest 3 involved in mystery woman’s marijuana syndicate

    Police seized hundreds of kilograms of marijuana from a drug network run by a mystery woman in the Isaan region, north east Thailand. The syndicate was run by a woman known as “Jae Saigon,” meaning “sister on the merit path,” according to Bangkok Post. A photo from a police suspects chart shows a woman wearing a white robe and her…

  • Việt NamPhú Thọ: Bé trai bị tấm tôn trên xe hàng cắt vào cổ
    Nguyễn Lê Việt AnhPublished: 09:42, 14 May 2020
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    Phú Thọ: Bé trai bị tấm tôn trên xe hàng cắt vào cổ

    Ngày 12/5, tại Phú Thọ đã xảy ra một vụ tai nạn thương tâm khi một bé trai 8 tuổi, đang đi xe đạp thì bị tấm tôn trên xe chở tôn ngang qua cắt vào cổ. Vì tấm tôn quá sắc, lại vào vùng hiểm nên bé chảy rất nhiều máu. Ngay lập tức, em được người nhà băng…

  • Covid-19 NewsSub-district restrictions remain intact for 5 locations in Phuket
    ThaigerPublished: 14:31, 30 April 2020
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    Sub-district restrictions remain intact for 5 locations in Phuket

    Phuket’s outgoing Governor Phakaphong Tavipatana has confirmed that the island’s sub-district lockdowns will end tonight (or technically at 4am Friday morning because of the national curfews). But five ‘at risk’ locations on the island will remain closed off with checkpoints to curb any further re-ignition of the Covid-19 infections on the island. 3 more cases were announced for the island…

  • Covid-19 NewsThailand seeks more quarantine locations as residents return from OS
    Maya TaylorPublished: 12:15, 24 April 2020
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    Thailand seeks more quarantine locations as residents return from OS

    The director of the Institution for Urban Disease Control says more Covid-19 quarantine sites are needed in Bangkok and elsewhere around the country as more Thais arrive back from overseas. Nation Thailand reports that Anek Mungaomklang confirms that the government is looking for appropriate places to house repatriated Thai residents, who must undergo a mandatory 14 day quarantine period. There…

  • Phuket NewsSeized tuna trawler catches fire on Phuket’s east coast
    AnukulPublished: 12:39, 17 April 2020
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    Seized tuna trawler catches fire on Phuket’s east coast

    Last night a fire was reported to the Phuket Police around 9:30pm on an old tuna trawler I (1 of the 7 unregistered fishing trawlers seized 3 years ago) along the mangrove forest on the island’s east coast. When emergency units arrived at the scene, the vessel was completely engulfed in flames 100 metres away from the Asia Marina pier…

  • Crime NewsBangkok man arrested for flogging dodgy medical certificates online
    ThaigerPublished: 13:01, 15 April 2020
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    Bangkok man arrested for flogging dodgy medical certificates online

    A young man in Bangkok has been arrested for peddling fake medical certificates on Facebook Marketplace. Police arrested 24 year old Phitchayaphat Somsri at a house in Lat Phrao district for selling the false certificates, including for Covid-19, for up to 1000 baht each, and say he used quite a number of tools in manufacturing them. A spokesman says the…

  • Thailand NewsEducation minister does U-turn on ‘tablets for students’ plan
    ThaigerPublished: 09:16, 13 April 2020
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    Education minister does U-turn on ‘tablets for students’ plan

    The government has done a swift U-turn on last week’s plans to purchase tablets (iPads and the like, not medicines) for Thailand’s students for home learning during the Covid-19 crisis. The Thai Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan says his ministry will now focus on maximising existing resources and “not invest money buying new equipment unnecessarily”. “We will ask for digital TV…

  • Crime NewsFacebook page advocates violence against ‘shit tourists’ in Phuket
    ThaigerPublished: 08:27, 08 April 2020
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    Facebook page advocates violence against ‘shit tourists’ in Phuket

    Following up from yesterday’s report there has been no action taken to remove a Facebook page advocating violence against “shit tourists” stranded in Phuket. ‘Spotlight Thailand’, usually a ‘whistleblower’ for local corruption and fuelled by the admin’s political views, has nearly 600,000 followers. Now this week’s posts are going viral, spreading a disturbing message from local Phuket ‘vigilantes’, commenting about…

  • Covid-19 NewsPhuket’s Soi Dog Foundation: State of Emergency affecting homeless dogs and cats
    Sean KellyPublished: 13:09, 04 April 2020
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    Phuket’s Soi Dog Foundation: State of Emergency affecting homeless dogs and cats

    During these troubled times, Soi Dog Foundation in Phuket has changed a few policies. Community Relations Manager Sakdapol Thongjan issued a special notice saying… in light of the escalation in Covid-19 cases worldwide, and to support the community efforts to stem the spread within Thailand, with immediate effect Soi Dog Foundation has decided to close the sanctuary to visitors and volunteers…

  • Covid-19 NewsPattaya police confiscate more than 750,000 smuggled face masks
    AnukulPublished: 12:21, 04 April 2020
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    Pattaya police confiscate more than 750,000 smuggled face masks

    Yesterday Region 1 police in Pattaya province seized 787,779 face masks and 10,000 litres of alcohol gel smuggled into the country from Vietnam. The smuggled goods were found in three houses in Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi and Don Muang. The smugglers’ told police that they planned on selling the face masks for 14 baht per piece which would have potentially made them…

  • Covid-19 NewsGoogle will publish user location data to aid in the fight against Covid-19
    AnukulPublished: 17:33, 03 April 2020
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    Google will publish user location data to aid in the fight against Covid-19

    Today in Paris, Google has announced that it will start publishing location data from its users located in 131 countries, starting today. This will be done to allow the governments to indicate the performance of social distancing to help in the combat of the Covid-19 pandemic. Reports of users’ movement will be recorded on a special website and will ‘chart…

  • Covid-19 NewsHandful of Thais catch last flight back to Thailand from Singapore
    ThaigerPublished: 12:27, 29 March 2020
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    Handful of Thais catch last flight back to Thailand from Singapore

    Flights are thin on the ground now and very few regional carriers are still in the air. Singapore Airlines Flight 972 was the last scheduled service to Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi Airport. Passengers, only a few dozen, mostly Thais fleeing back home to ride out the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, flew out of Singapore’s Changi Airport yesterday. Airlines worldwide are cutting flights and grounding…

  • Covid-19 NewsForeigners without health certificates, insurance being turned away at Thai airports
    ThaigerPublished: 10:40, 25 March 2020
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    Foreigners without health certificates, insurance being turned away at Thai airports

    No health certificate and travel insurance: “No Entry” Nearly 100 foreign travellers have been denied entry into Thailand for failing to have the mandatory documents to meet immigration standards to fight the Covid-19 coronavirus. Of these, 73 are being deported back to their country of departure. The passengers were among 4,533 passengers, both Thai and foreigners who landed in Thailand…

  • Covid-19 NewsReturning Thais face being turned away if they can’t show “fit-to-fly” health certificate
    ThaigerPublished: 11:24, 20 March 2020
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    Returning Thais face being turned away if they can’t show “fit-to-fly” health certificate

    As calls mount for the government to place Thailand under lockdown, many Thais abroad, trying to return home, face being locked out if they cannot show a health certificate, which can be difficult to get in many countries. Thailand’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAAT) announced yesterday that travellers from 11 more countries would be required to present health certificates and proof…

  • Covid-19 NewsPM says all air passengers must show health certificates, insurance
    ThaigerPublished: 09:42, 20 March 2020
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    PM says all air passengers must show health certificates, insurance

    How to close your borders when you’re not actually closing your borders. The Thai PM has made travelling to Thailand difficult, if not impossible, for many in his latest ‘clarification’. In an apparent contradiction of the a notice posted by Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) yesterday, PM Prayut Chan-o-cha announced that all air travellers, both Thai and foreign, must…

  • Covid-19 NewsVisitors from 15 locations must show health certificates, insurance before boarding flights to Thailand
    ThaigerPublished: 20:24, 19 March 2020
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    Visitors from 15 locations must show health certificates, insurance before boarding flights to Thailand

    Clarifying earlier reports, Thailand’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAAT) say that it will require air travellers, whether Thai or foreign, coming from 15 locations to show health certificates proving they are free of the Covid-19 coronavirus, and proof of insurance covering virus treatment, before boarding flights to Thailand. Earlier reports were that passengers from all locations would have to present the…

  • Việt NamChâu Đăng Khoa khẳng định đã bị hại khi dính scandal Orange và Lyly tố ăn chặn cát-xê
    Thuỳ DungPublished: 23:10, 28 February 2020
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    Châu Đăng Khoa khẳng định đã bị hại khi dính scandal Orange và Lyly tố ăn chặn cát-xê

    Châu Đăng Khoa và scandal tố ăn chặn cát-xê của Orange và Lyly gần đây đang nhận được sự chú ý lớn từ cộng đồng mạng. Gần đây, scandal Châu Đăng Khoa bị nữ ca sĩ Orange và Lyly tố ăn chặn cát-xê đang là chủ đề nóng trong Vbiz. Thậm chí, nhà sản xuất âm nhạc Nemo – đồng…

  • Crime NewsPattaya police arrest prolific home and hotel catburglar
    ThaigerPublished: 13:12, 26 February 2020
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    Pattaya police arrest prolific home and hotel catburglar

    Police in Pattaya yesterday arrested a suspect yesterday who they say has admitted to at least ten burglaries of homes and hotels over the last several months. Pattaya City Police reported the arrest of a 37 year old Thai man, identified only as ‘Phet’ yesterday morning. He allegedly broke into rooms in apartments and hotels through unlocked windows, when victims…

  • PropertyTips when buying a vacation home in Thailand
    ThaigerPublished: 09:42, 16 February 2020
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    Tips when buying a vacation home in Thailand

    by Marciano Birjmohun Imagine beachfront villas, riverfront condominiums and mountain hideaways. Vacation homes like these are often purchased for particular lifestyles and leisure activities. However, buyers may need to consider other factors to make the best buying decision. Rental management, for instance, should be considered as holiday home usage often peaks during the holidays, and many homeowners want to benefit…

  • Việt NamĐà Nẵng: Phát hiện thi thể bị cắt rời đựng trong vali
    Thuỳ DungPublished: 15:13, 07 February 2020
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    Đà Nẵng: Phát hiện thi thể bị cắt rời đựng trong vali

    Sáng nay, dưới chân cầu Trần Thị Lý, quận Hải Châu, Đà Nẵng, một chiếc vali đỏ được tìm thấy bởi vài người dân kéo lưới. trong vali có chứa thi thể người. Theo các ngư dân, khi vớt vali và mở ra thì phát hiện một thi thể phụ nữ bị cắt rời mất phần đầu. Phần đầu được…

  • Covid-19 NewsThai tourism and shares start to catch the Coronavirus Effect
    ThaigerPublished: 13:56, 03 February 2020
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    Thai tourism and shares start to catch the Coronavirus Effect

    The Stock Exchange of Thailand’s key index fell last month almost 100 points, after earlier reaching its highest point of 1,604.28 and then falling 96.92 points, or 6%. Industrial stocks have fallen nearly 10% due to a slide in petrochemical stocks, followed by commercial bank stocks which fell 8.7%. Technology and construction stocks lost 4% during January. But some stocks…

  • Crime NewsPolice catch serial bag and gold snatcher in Pattaya
    ThaigerPublished: 14:18, 01 February 2020
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    Police catch serial bag and gold snatcher in Pattaya

    Pattayans and tourists can breathe a little easier with the arrest of a serial gold and bag snatcher who preyed on both Thais and foreign tourists. Pattaya police report that 25 year old “Beer” was arrested Thursday. CCTV helped nab the suspect, who was responsible for many snatch-and-grab thefts in Pattaya. He snatched a gold necklace from a Thai woman on…