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 [...]

THE case of a German tourist trapped in his own body inside a Thai hospital is being related in Thailand’s media outlets to help him fly home. Now emerging from a coma yet still unable to speak, Matthias Stefan Koch, 38, has been confined to a bed at Songklanadarind Hospital in Hat Yai since October 25 last year when he [...]

BANGKOK, Aug 29 — Two Iranian men were arrested on Sunday at the Thai capital’s Suvarnabhumi Airport for smuggling 6.2kg of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as ‘ice,’ worth Bt21.7 million (about US$687,000), customs officers reported. Habibihemat Siamak, 41, and Elmjou Mohammad Reza, 25, were detained at Thailand’s main international airport after customs officers suspected that the bottom of their baggage [...]

BANGKOK, Aug 26 – Five Iranian men were arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport in three separate crystal methamphetamine smuggling cases involving a total weight of 12.3 kilogrammes of the drug, valued at Bt43 million (US$1.3 million), according to Thailand’s Customs Department. Customs Department Director-General Somchai Sajjapong told the media Thursday that Mohajeri Mohammadreza, 25, was detained when he failed to pass [...]

BANGKOK, THAILAND – A second British man has been arrested in Thailand for alleged involvement in violent anti-government “Red Shirt” protests earlier this year, police said Thursday. Keith Wayne Bush, 49, from Manchester was arrested on arson charges at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on Wednesday after arriving on a flight from the United Arab Emirates, according to immigration police. His Thai [...]

PHUKET: Fugitive murder suspect Lee Aldhouse has been detained by airport authorities while trying to enter the UK, the Gazette has learned. Lt Col Anukul Nuket, investigating officer in the case, confirmed that Chalong Police received the news from British officials yesterday. Aldhouse is said to have departed Thailand from a small border crossing in Khlong Yai, Trat province, on [...]

On August 23rd 2010, Wichai Praisa-ngob, Governor of Phuket, presided over the opening of a discussion ‘How to develop Phuket International Airport’ hosted by Airport of Thailand Public Company Limited or AOT. The discussion was held in Hall A and B, Central Phuket Festival Department Store. People who joined the discussion were Somchai Sawasdiphon, the Deputy Director in IT and [...]

Bangkok – Thailand’s cabinet on Tuesday approved a 63-billion-baht (2-billion-dollar) expansion plan for Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Thai Transport Minister Sophon Saram said the plan would include a second passenger terminal, offices and additional parking spaces. But plans to build a third runway had been dropped. The Earth Times Share

A British man fell to his death at the Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel, within Suvarnabhumi Airport compound, yesterday morning, police said. The body of James Edwards Smith, 30, was found at the back of the hotel with cuts to his hands and a fatal head wound. He had checked in on Saturday to the hotel’s VIP room 2245 on the second [...]

BANGKOK, 23 August 2010 (NNT) — The Airport Link has finally kicked off its official operations today at 06.00 hrs to accommodate passengers traveling to the Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Transport Minister Sopon Zarum presided over the official opening of the Airport Rail Link this morning. The rail link service, which is expected to serve up to 50,000 commuters and generate [...]