RAYONG, Sept 3 — Thai police on Friday took two Serbian suspects for breaking into an automated teller machine (ATM) on August 27 in the provincial seat to re-enact the theft after being arrested in Bangkok on Thursday. Milan Nikolic, 44, and Branislav Lazic, 50, were led to the Bank of Ayudhya Krachet branch in this eastern province for a [...]

After two bombing attacks in Bangkok in one week, the Center for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) has step up security measures by keeping 24-hour alert on 454 spots across the capital city, the Metropolitan police spokesman said on Friday. The CRES classified the places prone to attack into three levels, said Metropolitan police spokesman Pol Maj-Gen Piya [...]

BANGKOK, Sept 3 – Thai narcotics suppression police on Friday arrested a Kenyan and an Iranian suspected of drug trafficking at Suvarnabhumi Airport after smuggling some 3.3 kg and 490 grammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ‘ice,’ with a combined street value of almost Bt12 million (about US$375,000). Ndungani Nancy Kahoya, a 27-year-old Kenyan, was detained at the airport [...]

BANGKOK, 2 September 2010 (NNT) – The Department of Export Promotion (DEP) is gearing up to organize “Thailand Fashion Expo 2010” to promote Bangkok toward becoming Asia’s fashion capital. “Thailand Fashion Expo 2010” will be held from 20-26 October under the concept “Gate Way to World Fashion in Asia”. The DEP, the Ministry of Commerce, the business operators in Ratchprasong [...]

BANGKOK, Sept 2 – Thailand’s Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced media mogul and Yellow Shirt leader Sondhi Limthongkul and his television co-host to six-month imprisonment suspended for two years in a defamation case involving fugitive ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The court also ordered Mr Sondhi and Sarocha Pornudomsak to pay fines of Bt20,000 (US$640) each. The deposed premier earlier [...]

Two students of Bangkapi Technical school were arrested on Thursday for the murder of a 9-year-old schoolboy on a bus on Wednesday morning, police said. The two — aged 16 and 19 — were charged with intentionally killing a person, illegally possessing guns and amulets, and having guns in a public area, police said. They were not named. Police said [...]

BANGKOK, Sept 1 – Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said on Wednesday a grenade attack at a state-operated television station may have a connection with earlier grenade incidents at Yellow Shirt demonstrations at Government House two years ago. Mr Suthep said he has ordered tightened security measures at both media and government offices. The deputy prime minister, who supervises [...]

An eight-year-old schoolboy was killed in a shooting at a bus by a number of technical school students on Ramkhamhaeng road on Wednesday morning, police reported. Police said the shooting took place about 7am. A group of youths dressed in technical school uniforms followed bus No 113 (Min Buri-Hua Lamphong) on motorcycles along Ramkhamhaeng road. At an intersection, the students [...]

A grenade attack on the car of a journalist working for the state run broadcasting system in Bangkok, Tuesday underlines that the civil unrest continues in Thailand. In the latest of what is believed to be a grenade attack none was injured. Grenades targeted sites in Bangkok on August 27, July 30 and a week earlier in which one person [...]

An assailant fired an M79 grenade at the NBT station Tuesday afternoon. The grenade landed at the parking area at 1:25 pm. A news vehicle was damaged but no one was injured. INN reported that the grenade appeared to have been fired from the Don Mueng Tollway. Upon learning of the bomb attack, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajia instructed PM’s Office [...]