Young Tooting man paralysed and stranded in Thailand A salesman from Tooting is stranded in a Thai hospital after he was paralysed in a crash and did not have insurance. Tom Moss, 27, was left blind and unable to move from the neck down after his moped was hit by two cars and a lorry in Thailand. Now his family [...]

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 [...]

(NECN/MCOT) – Many areas of the northern region were heavily inundated on Sunday due to flash floods. Chiang Mai, Uttaradit, Nan, and Phichit were among the northern provinces suffering from severe flooding, which forced evacuation of local residents in the affected areas. Local authorities closed an inner city area of Chiang Mai to traffic due to severe flooding, which led [...]

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 [...]

Police arrested a Thai man in Chiang Mai for procuring minors, and Belgian man for having sex with these minors, Department of Special Investigation (DSI) chief Tharit Pengdit said Thursday. On Wednesday, Suchat Biewtoo, 21, was nabbed at his home in San Sai district, while 41-year-old Philip Francoise was nabbed in front of a condominium in Muang district. Police were [...]

On Sunday, about three hundred members of Thai United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), gathered in Chiang Mai in an anti-government rally. The demonstrators lay down on the ground and staged a theatrical play to mock the military who clamped down on red shirted protesters in Bangkok earlier in 2010. Most of the demonstrators are women and elderly residents [...]

Ayutthaya, Chon Buri and Petchburi are shortlisted as the host city for the World Expo 2020, after Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB)’s 6-month study. Ayutthaya’s advantage lies in its proximity to Bangkok, but a disadvantage is it is flood-prone. Meanwhile, Chon Buri (Pattaya) is not far from Suvarnabhumi Airport and close to the deep seaport. Chiang Mai had the [...]

One of Thailand’s most controversial and intriguing organizations celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Empower, which stands for “Education Means Protection of Women Engaged in Recreation”, is a non-profit organization with centers in Bangkok’s Patpong red light district, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Mae Sai and Patong Beach in Phuket. It provides women involved in Thailand’s illegal sex trade with free [...]

Thailand’s opposition Puea Thai Party (PTP) will hold a celebration on July 26 to mark the 61st birthday of ousted former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra at a temple in the northern Chiang Mai province, PTP MP for Chiang Mai Surapong Towichakchaikul said on Monday. The Bangkok Post’s website quoted Surapong as saying the ceremony, which will be held in the [...]

A 90-year-old Australian man has been charged with detaining and raping four young sisters at his home in northern Thailand. German-born Joseph Kraus Karl was arrested at his house in Chiang Mai province yesterday after police received a complaint from the children’s father. The Thai girls, aged seven, 11, 12 and 14, were allegedly abused repeatedly after being invited to [...]