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 [...]

A Pattaya woman who was upset due to her Italian boyfriends’ imminent return to his country ran into the sea in an attempt to end her life. Pattaya, 2nd September 2010 [PDN] At 6.30 pm the Pattaya Police radio center was informed that a Thai woman had quarreled with her Italian boyfriend and ran into the sea to kill herself [...]

Police are pressing child molestation charges against two teachers in Surat Thani province, while another two teachers in Nakhon Si Thammarat are being investigated for allegedly sexually abusing 21 female students. Police have charged the deputy director of Surat Thani’s Kanjanadit Wittayakom School with child sexual abuse after being alleged of luring a Grade 11 student and allowing a fellow [...]

Two vehicles thought to have been used in the recent 4.3 Million Baht ATM Robbery in Rayong Province have been found at a local car rental shop on the Sukumvit Road in South Pattaya. Police Major General Tanitsak, Commander of Rayong Provincial Police who was joined by officers from Rayong and Pattaya is leading the investigation into the case which [...]

Pattani – A Buddhist couple were killed in a drive-by shooting in this southern border province early Wednesday. Police said the couple were shot by a pillion rider while riding their motorcycle to a rubber plantation in Ban Thungpla village in Khokpho district at 3:30 am. The two were identified as Surasit Iadkaew, 50 and Khanueng Iadkaew, 52. The Nation [...]

BANGKOK, 31 August 2010 (NNT) – The military will try to make understanding with people regarding frequent gathering and forums of discussion organized by the anti-government United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) or red-shirt group. Permanent Secretary for Defense, General Apichart Penkitti admitted that it would be difficult for the police to take action against the UDD since the [...]

Secretly recorded mobile phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in north-eastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire. Art teacher Somchai Limthanmaporn was fired after he was exposed hitting at least 40 students, according to Nongkran Prathumtri, an administrator at St Mary’s School in the north-eastern [...]

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 [...]

The man who gained widespread internet notoriety after rushing the 2010 Vancouver Olympic torch procession to light a cigarette has been found dead in Thailand last week. Ratchaburi, the 29th of August 2010: Jordan Ashley Krull [26] was found dead in Thailand’s Central province of Ratchaburi on Tuesday last week. Krull, discovered dead 500 meters from the Chet Samian railway [...]