PATTAYA, Thailand – A 70-year-old British man was taken to hospital with facial injuries after a confrontation on Jomtien Beach on Thursday afternoon, with police detaining a 28-year-old Thai man while they investigate claims that the dispute concerned a missing motorcycle. Rescue workers and patrol officers were called to the beach near Jomtien Soi 10 […]
CHANTHABURI, Thailand – The family of a woman missing for nearly a week has appealed to the public for help after her boyfriend denied seeing her, despite CCTV footage showing him picking her up on the day she was last seen. Chantra Muangkao, 50, told reporters on Thursday that her daughter Wichuda Chansungnoen left home […]
RAYONG, Thailand – A 36-year-old Chinese construction worker has died after a ten-wheeled lorry reversed over him at a data-centre construction site in Ban Chang, Rayong, with police believing the victim may have been in the vehicle’s rear blind spot when the lorry moved backwards on September 3. Police and rescue workers were called to […]
PATTAYA, Thailand – Hundreds of US Navy sailors and Marines from the USS Abraham Lincoln began exploring Pattaya early Thursday on their second day of shore leave, arriving at the resort city in buses from Laem Chabang port where the aircraft carrier is docked. The Lincoln, carrying approximately 5,000 personnel, arrived in Thailand’s eastern province […]
PATHUM THANI, Thailand – Police have seized 16,245 counterfeit memory cards after complaints that fake products sold online caused severe damage to customers’ data and computer systems, with the Economic Crime Suppression Division searching an unnumbered warehouse in Khlong Song, Khlong Luang district. Bangkok Police Smash Counterfeit Currency Ring, Arrest 4 Africans The raid followed […]
CHIANG MAI, Thailand – A 23-year-old Thai-American man has been detained by police after a 26-year-old woman died following an alleged assault at a resort in Mae On district, with the suspect facing a charge of assault causing death. Police identified the man as K. R., who is receiving treatment at Nakornping Hospital after allegedly […]
KAMPHAENG PHET, Thailand – Police detained a 14-year-old boy on Wednesday after he entered a secondary school in Kamphaeng Phet and fired a pistol, though no injuries were reported, with the teen firing approximately eight bullets from his 9mm handgun into the sky at Wachiraprakarn Witthayakhom School at 2 p.m. Teachers and students were ordered […]
PATTAYA, Thailand – An Indian tourist was taken to hospital unconscious after an early-morning confrontation outside a seafood restaurant near Walking Street in Pattaya on Tuesday, with police reporting that the 48-year-old man was found lying unconscious in the roadway shortly after 4:20 a.m. after reportedly being heavily intoxicated and having vomited. Officers from Muang […]
