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, 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 [...]

Thailand will hold its most competitive, and probably most secretive, auction ever later this month when the country’s telecom giants vie for highly prized licences to provide third-generation (3G) services. Two of the first three 3G-2.1GHz-spectrum licences will be up for grabs at a starting price of Bt12.8 billion apiece when the bidding takes place from September 20 to September [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

PHUKET: A man suspected of an attempted murder in Phuket last year was arrested by Lampang police on Saturday after more than a year on the run. But it wasn’t all woe for the suspect, 41-year-old Bangkok resident Prasop Homhuan. Prasop told officers escorting him to Phuket from Chiang Mai that despite his arrest he was very excited – at [...]