Social media fills with reports of tourist police requesting immigration files from random foreigners

Reports are coming in from Hua Hin about tourist police questioning foreign nationals and demanding paperwork that is already on file with immigration for anyone staying legally in the Kingdom. Social media is full of speculation as to why the Tourist Police are asking for personal details. They are claiming that it is for foreign […]

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Alleged UK cigarette smuggler captured in Hua Hin

A British fugitive who allegedly masterminded a cigarette-smuggling ring that cost the UK government £2 million in lost tax revenue in 2008 was captured in Hua Hin on Wednesday. Paul Joyce, of Northumberland in northeast England, was apprehended by Special Branch Police officers at a parking lot at the Sea-Cret Hua Hin hotel in the […]

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Mystery surrounds death of Brit in Hua Hin

It has emerged that Iain Mackay, 40, who worked with a seismic research company, had earlier clashed with a girlfriend and another man after surprising them together at a bar in Hua Hin in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province on the Malay Peninsula. However, police in Hua Hin say no crime was committed and that Mr […]

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