When is Chinese New Year 2017 – The Year of the Rooster?
This year, Chinese New Year – The Year of the Rooster – begins on Saturday January 28 and lasts until February 15th, 2018. BANGKOK – The Chinese New Year is rapidly approaching, but before we...
View ArticleBriton and South African Flee Thailand after Murdering British Businessman
Thai authorities named 23-year old South African Abel Caldeira as the gunman from video footage‚ while Turner had rented the bike. . . PATTAYA – Thailand’s Royal Thai Police has issued a Nation wide...
View ArticleAustralian DJ, Jake Mastroianni Transfered to Bangkwan Prison aka the Bangkok...
Lawyer Nathan Feeney said he was surprised by Mastroianni’s recent transfer to the notorious Bangkwan prison. . . BANGKOK -26 year-old Jake Mastroianni an Australian DJ facing two life jail sentences...
View ArticleThai Prime Minister Quotes Astrologers Message after Graft Ranking Tumbles
Prayuth told reporters “There’s no harm in listening to fortune-tellers. Fortune- telling is an art. . . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Military imposed Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has appealed for no...
View ArticleDrug Runner Killed in Shootout with Pha Muang Drug Task Force in Mae Sai,...
The unidentified man was lying dead with a green rucksack on his back containing methamphetamine pills.- File Photo taken by Rarinthorn Petcharoen . . CHIANG RAI – An unidentified drug smuggler was...
View ArticleBangkok Police Investigate after Fire Destroys 30 Homes in the Impoverished...
Firefighters at the scene of a fire Friday night in the capital’s Khlong Toei district. – Photo Khaosod . . BANGKOK – Police in Bangkok are investigating a fire that raged through a community in...
View ArticlePhuket Police and Officials Accused of Extorting Foreign Work Permit Holders
If they didn’t want to go to the station, they were asked to pay 20,000 baht each, said Ms Thanyarat – File Photo . . PHUKET – Ms.Thanyarat Atchariyachai, a former chairwoman of the Senate committee on...
View ArticlePresident Trump Imposes 90 Day Ban on Travelers from Seven Muslim Countries
US President Trump signs an executive order to impose tighter vetting preventing foreign terrorists from entering the US at the Pentagon in Washington. . . WASHINGTON DC– President Trump on Friday put...
View ArticleWelder Gets 11 Year Jail Sentence for Insulting Thailand’s Monarchy on Facebook
Burin Intin, 28, was sentenced after pleading guilty to insulting the monarchy in two messages posted online. . . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Military Court on Friday sentenced a welder from Northeastern...
View ArticleThailand Considers World’s First Prison Facility Exclusively for LGBT Inmates
Transgender inmates get a security check from female officers before entering their cell at Pattaya Remand Prison in Pattaya, Chonburi province, Thailand. . . CHON BURI – Theerayut Charoenpakdee was...
View ArticleBorn in the Year of the Rooster? Learn What the Thai Zodiac Says about you
. Here’s what the Thai zodiac Calendar says about you . According to the Chinese luni-solar calendar, the Year of the Rooster (or Chicken) begins on the January 28, 2017. It falls on the day of the...
View ArticleDrug Traffickers Traveling from Chiang Rai Busted in Phitsanuloke
Police and Narcotics officers in Phitsanulok search BMW X5 traveling from Chiang Rai Province with crystal meth. . . PHITSANULOKE – Two men have been arrested and 3 kilo’s of crystal meth and half a...
View ArticleSixteen Tourists Injured in Phuket after Bus Loses Brakes and Crashes
As bus approached a sharp curve, the driver decided to ram the bus into the barrier in bid to stop the bus and prevent it from going down the hill. . . PHUKET – Sixteen tourists from India were...
View ArticleGunmen Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar” Open Fire at Quebec Mosque Killing Six People
An ambulance is parked at the scene after six people were killed and eight were wounded in a shooting inside a mosque during evening prayers Sunday. QUEBEC – Two men were arrested after six people...
View ArticlePhilippines Puts Anti-Drug Campaign on Hold to Tackle Corrupt Police Force
South Korean Jee Ick-joo was abducted in Angeles City and then murdered by policemen in Camp Crame near the official residence of PNP Chief Ronald ‘Bato’ De La Rosa. . . MANILA – Philippine National...
View ArticleThai Appeals Court Upholds 20 Year Sentence for Thai Woman Convicted of...
Mrs Pornchanok Chaiyapa and her Thai husband Somchai Keawbangyang were convicted for conspiring to kill Mr Yoshinori Shimato in 2014. . . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Appeals Court has upheld an earlier...
View ArticleThailand’s Military to Ask Laos to Deport Anti Junta Activists Wanted on Lese...
Gen Thawip Netniyom, Secretary-General of the National Security Council, announced to media plans to travel to Laos to seek the extradition of Thai nationals. . . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Head of...
View ArticleIranian Foreign Minister Refuses to Confirm Iran’s Missile Tests
A Ghadr-F missile is displayed next to a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a war exhibition to commemorate the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war at Baharestan square, south of Tehran. ....
View ArticleChiang Rai Officials Distribute Hundreds of Free Blankets as Temperatures Drop
The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has indicated over 200,000 people are in need of warm clothing in Chiang Rai . . CHIANG RAI – Temperatures in Chiang Rai have continued to drop with...
View ArticleThailand Implements Maditory Fingerprint ID to Register SIMs Cards
All mobile operators will have to introduce the online fingerprint ID system by March. . . BANGKOK – Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) announced today that...
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