Chon Buri

  • Crime NewsPattaya Police fine Norwegian tourist 5,000 baht for public lewdness

    Pattaya Police fine Norwegian tourist 5,000 baht for public lewdness

    Police tracked down, arrested, and fined the foreign tourist who made headlines on Monday for fornicating with a Thai woman against a power pole on the mean streets of Pattaya in eastern Thailand. Yesterday, the Superintendent of Pattaya City Police Station Pol Col Kulchat Kulchai detained a 49 year old Norwegian man under suspicion of public lewdness. The scandalous Scandinavian…

  • Pattaya NewsAmateur gunmaker learned how to make guns on YouTube

    Amateur gunmaker learned how to make guns on YouTube

    An amateur gunmaker confessed to police that he bought gun parts through a Lazada app and learned how to make the weapons on YouTube after officers swooped to make an arrest following a tip-off. Police raided the gunmaker’s house in the Sattahip district in Chon Buri at 11pm yesterday and arrested him on charges of illegally making guns and selling…

  • Crime NewsForeign man fornicates with Thai woman on Pattaya street ‘for 30 minutes’

    Foreign man fornicates with Thai woman on Pattaya street ‘for 30 minutes’

    A foreign tourist and a Thai woman were spotted fornicating against an electricity pole near a busy intersection in Pattaya “for 30 minutes” early this morning. At 4am, reporters received explicit video evidence of a foreign man and a Thai woman having sex on the roadside in central Pattaya’s Bang Lamung district in Chon Buri province. Locals are urging police…

  • Pattaya NewsHuge truck crushes young motorcyclist to death in Chon Buri

    Huge truck crushes young motorcyclist to death in Chon Buri

    A huge truck tragically crushed a young motorcyclist to death in Chon Buri’s main city district yesterday. The incident happened on a road under a motorway in the Don Hua Lor sub-district. The victim, 20 year old Phatthames Sriraksa, who is originally from Sisaket province, had been driving home from work. Rescuers arrived on the scene to find Phattames’s body…

  • Pattaya NewsThousands attend run-walk in Chon Buri to raise money for children’s organisations

    Thousands attend run-walk in Chon Buri to raise money for children’s organisations

    Thousands of Chon Buri dwellers attended a running and walking event for a good cause on Sunday. The event, titled the ‘SVT Run 2022 Charity For Kids,’ raised money for two children’s organisations. One organisation, Baan Jing Jai, is an orphanage. The other organisation, Baan Kru Ja, is a centre helping children victims of abuse and trafficking. Over 2000 people turned…

  • Pattaya NewsTaxi drives off forgetting Norwegian tourist at petrol station in Thailand

    Taxi drives off forgetting Norwegian tourist at petrol station in Thailand

    A Norwegian man took a taxi from Trat to Bangkok yesterday afternoon. After stopping at a petrol station in Chon Buri province to buy snacks, the driver drove off without him. The cabby drove 60 kilometres before realising his passenger had vanished. A Thai woman at the petrol station on the Setthakit Chon Buri – Baan Bueng Road saw the…

  • Pattaya NewsFinnish man found sleeping in road after motorbike crash

    Finnish man found sleeping in road after motorbike crash

    When it comes to drinking, some people know their limits. And some people… well… some people are like a Finnish man recently scooped up off the street in Pattaya late at night. The tourist wasn’t dead though. He was just so drunk that he passed out driving his motorbike home and was found sleeping in the middle of the busy…

  • Thailand NewsZookeeper seeks compensation after being bitten by wild monkeys

    Zookeeper seeks compensation after being bitten by wild monkeys

    A zookeeper is demanding compensation from Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chon Buri after she got bitten by wild monkeys at work. The animal keeper said she paid nearly 100,000 baht for treatment but got only 3,000 baht from her employer in return. A 54 year old woman named Mon, who worked at Khao Kheow Open Zoo, yesterday filed a…

  • Pattaya NewsMan returns for bag with meth pills he left at restaurant

    Man returns for bag with meth pills he left at restaurant

    We’ve all done it, on our way home from a meal out when we realize that we left something on the table at the restaurant, such as takeaway leftovers or an umbrella. Sometimes we turn the car around and go back, sometimes we shrug it off and consider it a loss. One man in Chon Buri probably should have taken…

  • Pattaya NewsLoan shark sends goons to attack man in hospital and steal his car

    Loan shark sends goons to attack man in hospital and steal his car

    Some people never heard the phrase “don’t kick ’em while they’re down” and it shows. A man who is receiving medical treatment in a Chon Buri hospital was brutally attacked in his hospital room by debt collectors. Four men entered his room, beat him, and then grabbed his car keys and took off. They found his car in the parking…

  • Cannabis News9 year olds smoke cannabis on Pattaya Beach in Thailand

    9 year olds smoke cannabis on Pattaya Beach in Thailand

    Netizens are concerned about the safety of children after pictures of a group of 9 and 10 year olds smoking cannabis from a bamboo bong on Pattaya Beach in Chon Buri province, eastern Thailand, went viral on social media. Thailand delisted cannabis as an illicit narcotic in June to allow the public to utilise the plant’s medicinal properties. But without…

  • Pattaya NewsSea turtle choked to death on plastic waste

    Sea turtle choked to death on plastic waste

    The Sea Turtle Conservation Centre revealed the dead turtle that washed ashore on a Chon Buri beach yesterday choked to death on plastic waste. Veterinarians at the centre said more than two kilogrammes of waste was found inside the marine reptile when they examined it. About 100 grammes of fishing net, nylon filament, plastic and small nails and other rubbish,…

  • Pattaya NewsMan charged with murder of a transwoman found dead in canal

    Man charged with murder of a transwoman found dead in canal

    A male delivery rider was arrested in connection with the dead transwoman found in a canal in Pathum Thani province yesterday and charged with murder. If found guilty he could face the death penalty. The identity of the transwoman’s body, which was found in the Song Canal yesterday, was confirmed as 29 year old Piyada Sorrakun. Her mobile phone, a…

  • Thailand NewsBuilder dies after pulling grinding wheel out of his chest in eastern Thailand

    Builder dies after pulling grinding wheel out of his chest in eastern Thailand

    A builder died from blood loss today after pulling a grinding wheel out of his chest in Chon Buri province in eastern Thailand. He tried to use the tool to cut steel when it is designed to cut stone, causing the wheel to snap and fly straight into his chest. At around 12pm, officers at Nong Kham Police Station were…

  • Pattaya NewsFarang man brutally assaults Thai girlfriend in Pattaya, Thailand

    Farang man brutally assaults Thai girlfriend in Pattaya, Thailand

    A farang man stamped on his young Thai girlfriend until she was seriously injured in the early hours of the morning in Pattaya, Chon Buri province, eastern Thailand. At 4.30am, staff from Sawang Boriboon Thammsat Rescue Foundation received a report of an assault at a house in Nong Prue district in Bang Lamung district. At the scene, rescue workers found…

  • Pattaya NewsDead body of unidentified foreign man found in Chon Buri sea

    Dead body of unidentified foreign man found in Chon Buri sea

    A Thai sailor found the dead body of an unidentified foreign man in the sea off Samae San Island in the Sattahip district of Chon Buri. A one-kilogram rock was found in the man’s backpack. The foreigner’s body was found about 200 metres away from Nam Sai Beach on Samae San Island. He is believed to be about 40 to…

  • Pattaya NewsChon Buri man attacks beachgoer with knife

    Chon Buri man attacks beachgoer with knife

    A Chon Buri man attacked a beachgoer with a knife in the Sri Racha district on Monday night. The attacker pulled up in a white pickup truck, and suddenly jumped out and cut the victim’s elbow with a knife, according to the victim. The incident happened at an early Loy Krathong site on Ban Laem Chabang Beach. After cutting the…

  • Crime NewsGerman man in Pattaya freaks out as officers move in to arrest him for overstaying

    German man in Pattaya freaks out as officers move in to arrest him for overstaying

    A German couple in Pattaya was arrested yesterday for overstaying their visa. Arresting officers at the scene discovered that the man wasn’t going to go without a fight. Officers from Bang Lamung Police Station were answering a routine nuisance neighbour call at Soi Panya Nimit in Nongprue, but when they arrived on the scene they discovered the couple had overstayed their…

  • Pattaya NewsRescuers save 2 year old boy with head stuck in gate

    Rescuers save 2 year old boy with head stuck in gate

    Every parent’s worst nightmare came true on Thursday for a Chinese mother. Her two year old son sustained serious injuries in a freak accident that saw his head get stuck in an automatic gate mechanism. The terrifying incident occurred in the Sri Racha district of Chon Buri on Thursday, and luckily police were on the scene to jump in and…

  • Pattaya NewsPolice bust 2 drug parties, arrest 43 teenagers

    Police bust 2 drug parties, arrest 43 teenagers

    Move over adults, it’s time for the kids to join in. After a series of high-profile raids on entertainment venues around Thailand, in part as a crackdown on drugs after the meth ties to the daycare centre killer, police busted two parties full of mostly teenagers in Chon Buri this week. Police officials announced that in the early hours of…

  • Pattaya NewsVIDEO: Pit bull attacks in Pattaya

    VIDEO: Pit bull attacks in Pattaya

    CCTV footage captured the moment a man’s pet pit bull launched and bit a woman inside a condo building in Pattaya, Chon Buri province, eastern Thailand on Saturday. The pit bull and its owner were about to take the lift when the dog, seemingly out of nowhere, launched at a woman walking past and bit her thigh, causing her an…

  • Pattaya NewsStealing from the Red Cross – How low can Thailand’s corrupt officials go?

    Stealing from the Red Cross – How low can Thailand’s corrupt officials go?

    Two local administration officials in Chon Buri’s Sattahip district were arrested on Friday accused of taking bribes. Barely a day, or perhaps even an hour, goes by in Thailand at this time without accusations of corruption and bribe taking against the police or government officials. In this case, the two Sattahip officials demanded that a guesthouse operator make a fake…

  • Pattaya NewsCoral reefs off Chon Buri found diseased

    Coral reefs off Chon Buri found diseased

    There’s been some unfortunate news for all the ocean lovers out there. Coral reefs off Chon Buri’s Sattahip district and the Samae San island have this month been found to have yellow-band disease. The disease attacks and kills colonies of coral, according to the director-general of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources. Yellow-band disease occurs when coral gets stressed…

  • Pattaya NewsMountain B nightclub tragedy claims 26th life nearly 3 months after fire

    Mountain B nightclub tragedy claims 26th life nearly 3 months after fire

    The Mountain B nightclub tragedy claimed a 26th victim this morning almost three months after the fire in Sattahip district, Chon Buri province, eastern Thailand, on August 5. A 26 year old submarine operator for the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) died at 2am after fighting for his life in hospital for 83 days. Thirteen people lost their lives on the…

  • Pattaya NewsDrunk Chonburi FC goalie kills 1 and injures 1 in car crash

    Drunk Chonburi FC goalie kills 1 and injures 1 in car crash

    A goalkeeper for Chonburi FC crashed his car early this morning while driving under the influence of alcohol, killing a woman and seriously injuring a man, in the province’s Mueang district, in eastern Thailand. At 4.30am, officers from Mueang Chon Buri police station received a report that a car crashed into pedestrians on a bridge on Liap Cha Thahle Road…

  • Pattaya NewsKind Thai woman takes in homeless ladyboy who robs all her stuff

    Kind Thai woman takes in homeless ladyboy who robs all her stuff

    A kind-hearted woman from Chon Buri province, eastern Thailand, took in a homeless ladyboy who had nowhere else to go. After two weeks, the ladyboy left in the middle of the night stealing a car, a motorbike, a TV, an iPhone, gold, and even an electric fan. The victim, 27 year old Nawarat, posted on Facebook offering a big cash…

  • Pattaya NewsNaked women on fishing trip ads surrender to police | Thaiger

    Naked women on fishing trip ads surrender to police

    UPDATE The two women featured naked in a sexy fishing trip advert in the Bang Saray sub-district in Chon Buri surrendered themselves to the police. The women said they only did it to gain followers on social media, adding they do not offer sex services or fishing trips. The two women visited Sattahip Police Station today after their post went…

  • Pattaya NewsChon Buri locals not hooked on agency’s naked fishing | Thaiger

    Chon Buri locals not hooked on agency’s naked fishing

    Fishing enthusiasts were hooked when a Chon Buri agency promoted a naked fishing trip on social media in the Bang Saray sub-district. Residents on the other hand were outraged. Angry Chon Buri locals are not happy with the unnamed agency shamelessly advertising fishing trips complete with naked women companions on Twitter. The naked fishing advertisement went viral when it was…

  • Pattaya NewsPattaya’s latest gold thief flees to Sri Racha

    Pattaya’s latest gold thief flees to Sri Racha

    UPDATE Pattaya’s latest gold thief has fled to the Sri Racha district of Chon Buri, according to Pattaya Police. This news comes after the thief on Sunday managed to steal a gold necklace and ring worth 46,000 baht from a woman. Police Chief Colonel Kunlachart Kunlachai told The Pattaya News that police traced the crook’s motorcycle route using CCTV footage.…

  • Pattaya NewsMystery surrounding unknown beaten body in Chon Buri

    Mystery surrounding unknown beaten body in Chon Buri

    The body of an unknown man was found yesterday in Chon Buri. The body was found covered in tree branches on abandoned land, his face severely beaten. Police are searching for clues to identify the dead man and piece together what happened. Officers from the Bang Lamung Police Station were called to the scene and launched an investigation into his…