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Udon Thani:- A 36-year-old Thai man has been arrested for stealing women's bras and underwear at boarding houses in Udon Thani's Mueang district during the past ten years. He has been doing this without capturing the attention of his wife.Udon Thani police chief Pol Maj Gen Chaiyatti Saithin told a press conference Wednesday that police found over 300 pieces of bras and underwear at the house of the suspect, Witthaya Somsong.Chaiyatti said Mueang Udon Thani police station conducted an investigation and made the arrest after a 22-year-old government official filed a complaint on June 21 that more than 10 pieces of her underwear and bras were stolen from her room at the Sri Sudta boarding house.Police checked feeds from a security camera of the boarding house and saw Witthaya entering the boarding house and took away the underwear and bras.After his arrest, Witthaya led police to retrieve a bag of the bras and underwear he dropped on a remote roadside spot on the road leading to his house. Police also found more than 300 other pieces at his house.He admitted that when he drank, he had an urge to steal used underwear and bras.While Thairath reported that the man liked to touch the bras and underwear for self gratification without sniffing them, Khom Chad Luek reported that the man admitted that he liked to sniff the used pieces.He said he also liked to collect the used underwear and bras and his wife did not know it.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- A 57-year-old Norwegian tourist was saved from drowning in a swimming of a Pattaya hotel Wednesday afternoon.The Sawang Boribun Thammasathan Foundation's emergency center was alerted of the accident at 3:30 pm.The center was informed that a foreigner became unconscious after he sank into the bottom of the swimming pool of the Momento Beach Resort Hotel on Soi 8 off Thepprasit Road in Tambon Nongplua of Chong Buri's Bang Lamung district.Rescuers of the foundation rushed to the scene and found Terie Biordal, 57, lying unconsciously on the edge of the swimming pool of the hotel. His pulse was weak. The rescuers performed first aid for him and rushed him to the Pattaya Memorial Hospital.Phakin Nawiset, 34, a worker of the hotel, told police that he was tending plants near the swimming pool when the accident happened.He said he saw Biordal drinking in front of his room No 5 near the swimming pool.Phakin said the Norwegian man then walked to a bridge over the pool, which is 2.5-meter-high, and plunged down into the pool.Phakin said the man did not come up from the water but he lay still at the bottom of the pool.The worker said he jumped into the water and pulled the Norwegian man to the surface of the water. He then shouted for help from nearby guests to help pull Biordal out of the water.Phakin said he then called the foundation to help send the man to a hospital.
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Bangkok:- The Crime Suppression Division has arrested a former IT executive of the PetroSaudi International for having allegedly blackmailed and exposed secret information of his former company.The arrest of Xavier Andre Justo was announced at the Royal Thai Police headquarters by Police Commissioner General Pol Gen Somyos Pumpanmuang at 1:30 pm Tuesday.Somyos said Justo, a Swiss citizen, was charged with blackmailing the PetroSaudi International, for Bt90 million."Numerous computers, hard drives and other evidence were seized pursuant to a court ordered search warrant and the investigation is ongoing. Meanwhile PetroSaudi International is considering further legal action in other jurisdictions," PetroSaudi said in a statement shortly after the arrest was announced.Somyos said Justo had earlier been paid Bt140 million to leave the company after he violated certain rules of the company.Justo later allegedly blackmailed the company, demanding Bt90 million more of compensation or else he would expose the company's secret to its rivals, Somyos alleged.The police chief said Justo later arranged a meeting with the company's representative at a hotel in Bangkok but the company refused to give him the demanded sum.The former IT executive later allegedly exposed the information linked to Malaysia's troubled 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).Somyos said the PetroSaudi International filed a complaint with the CSD that conducted an investigation and sought an arrest warrant against Justo.The CSD learned that he was staying with a friend on Koh Samui so police made the arrest.Justo denied the blackmailing charge.Somyos said the man would be prosecuted in Thailand before he would face extradition.A spokesperson for PetroSaudi said "we are relieved that Mr Justo will now face justice through the courts. We have been the victims of a regrettable crime that has unfortunately been politicised in Malaysia. We are happy that the Courts will now address this matter, and we apologise to the Malaysian people for the harm caused to them."
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Koh Larn, Chon Buri:- The body of a Russian tourist was found on a beach of Koh Larn off Pattaya coast Tuesday, two days after he disappeared while snorkeling near the island, the Pattaya police chief said.Pattaya police chief Pol Col Sukthat Pumpanmuang and Pol Lt Chorphaka Prueksachart, an interrogator of the Pattaya police station, as well as other officers rushed to the Samae beach in Ban Koh Lan village of Tambon Naklua in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district at 10 am shortly after the police station was informed of the body.The body was later identified as Roman Makarov, 47. He was wearing green swimming trunk. He was also wearing a snorkeling mask. Sukthat said the body did not show any sign that he had been attacked or harmed by others.His Russian girlfriend told police that Makarov visited Pattaya with her and the two visited Koh Larn Saturday morning to do snorkeling to enjoy coral reefs.Makarov went out to do snorkeling at a cape on the island in the afternoon and he disappeared.Sukthat said the Russian man might suffer from a cramp or a sudden attack of his chronic disease, causing him to drown before his body was washed ashore.His body was sent to the Police Hospital's Forensic Medicine Institute for an autopsy and the Russian embassy was informed of the incident.Several drowning incidents at Koh Larn were reported this year. For example, a 71-year-old Chinese tourist drowned at the island on April 17. Then on May 5, another 73-year-old Chinese tourist drowned at the island.
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Lamphun:- A 72-year-old partially paralyzed woman was stabbed to death right on her wheelchair at her house in Lamphun's Pasang district on Monday, police said.Pol Lt Witthaya Winyayong, an inspector of Pasang police station, said Srinual Sri-arporn was killed right before she entered her house.Channel 3 reported that the woman returned from buying meat at a nearby fresh market and she was carrying all her cash and gold valuable with her. Police found a waist-strapped bag on her with Bt50,000 in cash and a Bt20,000-worth gold necklace. The bag was still strapped to her waist.Channel 3 reported that the woman was partially paralyzed so she was very slow when she opened her bag to pay for the meat and the attempted robber might spot her money and might follow her to the house.Witthaya said Srinual was stabbed one time on the right side of her neck, another at her right shoulder and another on her head.Jai Dechawong, 65, a neighbor, called police to alert the police station of the murder.He told police that he was tending his orchard when he heard the woman crying for help. He rushed to scene to find her lying lifeless on the ground beside her wheelchair.Srinual's husband, Kriangsak Sri-arporn, 59, said his wife had been using for wheelchair for ten years after she became partially paralyzed.Kriangsak said he was working as a security officer at a company for the 5 am to 5 pm shift when his wife was killed.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- A Frenchman and three Indian tourists were injured in two separate attacks in Pattaya early Monday, police said.In the first case, Jorge Vieira, 37, a French tourist, was punched and injured by an unidentified Thai man, Pol Lt Kittipong Srichamnarn, an interrogator on duty of the Pattaya police station, said.Kittipong said he received a phone call that Vieira was attack and injured on Pattaya beach in front of the Bay Walk Residence in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district.He rushed to the scene with officials from Sawang Boribun Thammasathan Pattaya and found the French man drunk. He suffered a cut over his left eyebrow. The officials performed a first aid for him and he refused to go to a hospital.He was taken to the Pattaya police station to register a complaint. He said he drank at a bar with a Thai man who later walked to the beach with him before they quarreled and the Thai man then punched him, causing him to fall down. His face hit the floor, causing the wound.In the second incident, Jackdeef Singh, 23, and two Indian friends came to the Pattaya police station at 5 am to file a complaint that he and his friends were attacked by car park staffs of the Mix Discotheque Pattaya.Singh told police that he and five friends went to drink at the discotheque. He said when he and his friends were leaving in their car, a car park staff shouted at him and told him to get out of the car.When he and his friends out of the car, another car park staff hit him in the head with a metal pipe and hit the legs of two of his friends. Singh said the two staffs then fled the scene. He said he was puzzled why he was attacked.
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Chiang Mai:- With so many Chinese tourists renting motorcycles to ride around the northern capital of Chiang Mai, traffic police in the city have to carry a sheet with Chinese phrases so that they can tell the tourists which traffic offenses they have made, the Manager Online reported.The Manager said over 100 Chinese motorcyclists were arrested each day for riding against the traffic, or parking their bikes in the no-parking zones or riding without license.
[Photo credit: Manager Online]As a result, the Chiang Mai traffic police have to always carry the sheet. When the police stopped Chinese tourists on road, they had to read the relevant phases to them from the sheet.The sheet has both Chinese language and Thai translations as well as the Chinese pronunciations written in Thai for the police to read.The phrases include you “don't wear crash helmet”; you “must carry a riding license”; and you “have parked in a no-parking zone”.The Manager said Chiang Mai traffic police set up a traffic checkpoint at Nawarat bridge in the heart of Chiang Mai and made several arrests Monday morning. The police were seen reading from the sheet to the stopped Chinese motorcyclists.Pol Lt Rangsang Thienpairoj, deputy traffic inspector of the Chiang Mai Police, said over 100 Chinese tourists were arrested each day mostly for not carrying riding license.Rangsang said the traffic police had sought cooperation from operators of motorcycle renting shops not to allow those without license to rent the bikes but they ignored police's request.
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Phuket:- A 22-year-old Hong Kong tourist was arrested by Phuket police early Sunday after he allegedly filed a false complaint that his bag with a mobile phone and a Macbook computer had been stolen.Phuket tourist police chief Pol Col Chusawat Chanrojanakit said Wong Wai Ki Warwick Taboc, who carries Hong Kong passport, was arrested at his hotel at 1:30 am.He was charged with violating Article 173 of the Criminal Code by filing false complaint with an officer that a crime has taken place.The tourist police team was informed by the 1155 tourist police call center that a Hong Kong tourist had filed a complaint with the Chalong police station that his valuables had been stolen and he was waiting for help from the tourist police at the police station.The team rushed to the Chalong police station to interrogate the tourist for more information.The Hong Kong man told the tourist police team that he arrived at the Phuket international airport at 4:45 pm on Saturday. He said he then took a taxi to have dinner at a foods shop whose name he did not know.He said his bag was stolen while he was having dinner. He then took a taxi to file the complaint at the Chanlong police station. He claimed that he had only Bt200 cash left and he did not have a place to stay and had no travel accompany.The team spotted that the man was carrying a handbag so the police officers asked for permission to check it. Police found a key card printed by the name of Rawai Palm Beach Resort.So, police took him to the hotel and checked his room and found the phone and computer. Police also found the man's photo in the smartphone so he was arrested on suspicion that he made the false charge for claiming for insurance compensation.
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Bangkok:- The government plans to release PSC1111 app for smart phones to allow foreign tourists to file complaints to the government directly in one or two months, Deputy Government Spokesman Maj Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd said Sunday.
He said the app will add another channel for foreign tourists and Thai people to file complaints to the people service call center opened by the National Council for Peace and Order on top of the 1111 hotline, PO Box 1111, the www.1111.go.th website and 1111 public complaint receiving booths at the four gates of the Government House.
The spokesman explained that the 1111 channels of complaint receiving were aimed at receiving non-emergency complaints although the people and foreign tourists can call 1111 and press 2 on the 24-hour basis.
In case of emergency, foreign tourists are urged to call the 1155 hotline of the Tourist Police Division.
Sansern said since the government has opened the 1111 hotline and other channels, 1,793 foreigners have filed complaints to the government through both the 1111 hotline channels and 1155 hotline of tourist police.
Of the 1,793 complaints, 1,734 were emergency cases. Most or 1,633 complaints came form British tourist and 59 cases from Chinese tourists.
Sansern said the call centers for tourists have been running with cooperation form the PM’s Office, the Tourist Police Division and the TOT Plc to receive complaints from foreign tourist on around the clock basis to ensure them of safety in the kingdom.
The 1111 call center is always manned by 150 officials and it uses new IT technologies for alerting government agencies concerned to provide help to the tourists as soon as possible.
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Phuket:- Four Chinese men were arrested in Phuket late Friday night after police found them allegedly using fake ATM cards to withdraw cash from an ATM machine in Patong area. Police seized over 200 fake ATM cards from the four suspects.The arrest was made at 00:20 am Saturday at the front of Soi Kebsup off Rat-uthit Road in Tambon Patong of Krathu district after police received tips-off late Friday.The four suspects were identified as Xie Haiping, 34, Yang Changbin, 27, Min Zhong, 35 and Su Chuanfeng, 35.[Photo credit: Manger Online]The Krathu police station was alerted that four Chinese men were seen using fake ATM cards to withdraw crash from an ATM machine of the TMB bank's Patong branch in front of the electricity office.Police officers rushed to the scene and watched and waited until the four suspects had finished fake ATM cards to withdraw the money. All the four were seen taking turn to withdraw the money.When the four came out of the ATM booth to catch a tuktuk, police came out to arrest them. During the arrest, a man was seen running away.Police then took the four suspects to their hotel in Patong and found more fake ATM cards.Police learned that the four had arrived from Hong Kong at 2:50 pm Friday. They were scheduled to return to Hong Kong Saturday.The four admitted that they had received fake ATM cards from Hong Kong for withdrawing money in Phuket. They were supposed to return to Hong Kong with the cash to share with other gang members.They were charged with having and using fake electronic cards. Police are now hunting for the other suspect.
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Chanthaburi:- For the rest of us, winning the first price lottery is next to impossibility but a 32-year-old man in Chanthaburi has won it – not just once but twice.Thairath Online reported that Pattarapong Prachoomkul, who works as a policy and planning analyzer official of Tambon Nongchim Administrative Organization in Chanthaburi's Laemsing district, has won a pair of first-price lottery tickets for the June 16 draw. He got Bt2 million prize for each ticket.The paper said Pattarapong paid only Bt80 for the pair of tickets as the June 16 draw was the first draw that the government has successfully controlled the retail price of lottery tickets to be Bt80 per par in line with the ticket's face value.Thairath said it dispatched its reporter to talk to Pattarapong on Friday after it learned from his friends that he has won the first-prize lottery.[Photo credit: Thairath Online]The TAO official told the Thairath reporter that he also won the first prize five months ago but at that time he kept it secret.It was already strange for a man to win the first prize lottery twice in five months but the incident Pattarapong encountered and prompted him to believe that it led to his lottery winning was more incredible.He said he has recently met an old monk standing in front of the Laemsing electricity office, waving for a lift but no other cars stopped. Pattarapong said he stopped and picked up the monk and delivered him to Wat Khao Noi not far from his house.He later went to the temple and saw the picture of the monk, who turned out be the abbot who died since 1950.The man said he has bought a new digital camera and while he was testing it at his house, the camera captured the monk's picture out of nothing.He said a lottery vendor later turned up at the TAO office with a few tickets left and he bought one pair and it turned out to be winning tickets, Thairath said.
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Bangkok:- Two robbers on a motorcycle robbed a money truck of the Kasikorn Bank at the Tesco Lotus Rama I branch Friday evening and made off with Bt8.45 million in cash, police said.Pol Lt Pichai Khamput, an interrogator of the Pathumwat police station, was alerted at 6 pm shortly after the robbery took place.He and other police officers of his station as well senior officers from the Metropolitan Police Division 6 rushed to the scene.Pichai said the robbery took place on the second floor of the car park near the gate of the Lotus store.Police found Ekkaphan Jaengsitthawet, 26, a security officer for the truck, lying face-down with his hands handcuffed from behind.Standing beside him was another terrified security officer, Yutthapichai Klunprasom, 36.The two told police that the truck driver had already drove off the truck to the Pathumwan Intersection to seek help from police. The driver followed the security protocol to drive away when a robbery took place.The two told police that while they were carrying money bags from the truck into the bank inside the store, two men arrived on a motorcycle and robbed them. They were concealing their face with crash helmets.They handcuffed Ekkaphan and took a money bag and they fired two shots to intimidate the security officers and fled on their motorcycle.Police checked the scene and found a bullet without finding any spent shell. Police believe the robbers use revolvers.Police checked security cameras and saw the two robbers arriving on a motorcycle. One of them appeared about 170 centimeter tall and the other 165 cm tall.
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Kanchanaburi:- An 83-year-old mother stabbed her son to death in an apparent self-defense after her 53-year-old drunk son was about to beat her like in the past, police said.Pol Col Wachira Loplert, chief of Laokwan police station in Kanchanaburi's Laokwan district, said Thursday that the incident took place shortly before 8 pm Wednesday night when his station was alerted of it.The woman was identified as Min Namchan, who lives in Moo 4 Tambon Thunkrapao of the district, in a two-storey house with her son, Kul Namchan.[Photo credit: Manager Online]Wachira said the woman called the police station after sending her own son down with one stab on the right chest.When police and rescuers from the Pithak Karn Foundation arrived at the scene, they found the body of Kul in black shorts without shirt lying on the first floor. The mothe was sitting nearby, waiting to testify to police.Kul admitted to police that she was the one who stabbed her son.She recounted that she was sleeping when she was woken up with the loud noise made by her drunk son. She said her son cried foul and carried a knife walking toward her.She feared that her son would attack her so she grabbed one-foot-long kitchen knife beside her and stabbed him once. The knife pieced through his right chest and sent him down immediately, she said.Wachira said police had to arrest the mother and took her to the police station for taking legal action. She might be released on bail later depending on judgment of the investigators in charge of the case, the police chief added.
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Chiang Mai:- Two karaoke bar workers were arrested and fined Thursday after they and other beat up an Australian father and his teenage son Tuesday morning following dispute over a bill.Sumon Monthong and Nithikorn Laolee, workers of the Violin (Kinnaree) karaoke bar, were arrested for jointly assaulting Jackson Peter Kusen, 18, and his father, Peter Paul Joseph Hernbaker, 60.The father and son ran for their life and escaped into the Huafai Temple at 6 am Tuesday.Mueang Chiang Mai police station chief Pol Col Weerayut Prasopchokechai said Sumon and Nithikorn admitted assaulting the father and son following a dispute over the Australians' bill.Weerayut said the father and son drank 13 bottles of beer at the bar and five bar girls sat and talked to them. The shop charged the two for Bt13,000 but they refused to pay and wanted to pay only Bt1,000.During the argument, the son came out of the shop and found the tuktuk driver who drove him and his father to the shop, Weerayut said.He said the son grabbed the head of the tuktuk driver, Phuwanart Kulsuwan, 45, out of anger that he drove them to an expensive shop.Other tuktuk drivers came to the rescue of Phuwanart and engaged in the fight with young Australian. At the moment, the father came out to help his son. The bar workers then came out to join in beating the father and son, prompting them to flee to the temple, the station chief said.The two bar workers were ordered to pay a compensation of Bt9,000 for the father and son while the two Australians were fined Bt100 each for attacking the tuktuk driver.
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Bangkok: Four Ukrainian men have been arrested by the Crime Suppression Division after they have allegedly used fake ATM cards with stolen accounts from the United States to withdraw cash from ATM machines in Bangkok.The arrest was announced at a press conference at the CSD at 3 pm Wednesday by Central Investigation Bureau commissioner Pol Lt Gen Thitiraj Nongharn.The four were identified as Rustam Mamedov, 25, Lurii Lutsyk, 30, Valadyslav Ishchenko, 29, and Volodymyr Khudaiberdiiev, 25.Presented along with them at the press conference were 30 fake ATM cards, two credit card slips, Bt9,500 and US$300 in cash.The four have been arrested at the BS Residence Hotel on Soi Lat Krabang 30/4 in Bangkok's Lat Krabang district.Thitiraj said the CSD had been alerted by the Siam Commercial Bank that foreign criminals had been using fake ATM cards with stolen bank accounts from bank customers in the United States to withdraw cash from ATM machines in Lat Krabang since June 14.The CSD investigated and learned the identities of the four and arrested them while they were walking into their hotel, Thitiraj said.He said the four had allegedly withdrawn Bt130,000 from SCB ATM machines. A further investigation found that the four had allegedly caused damage to other commercial banks in Thailand worth over Bt10 million.They were charged with using fake electronic cards to caused damages to others. They will be prosecuted after which they will be deported, Thitiraj added.He said police are now stepping up crackdown on foreign gangsters who use fake ATM cards and who steal others' bank accounts by using skimmer technique.
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Chiang Mai: An Australian father and his son were attacked and injured by a group of Thai men, prompting them to flee into a temple in Chiang Mai's Mueang district early Tuesday morning.According to Khaosod, the father was identified as Peter Hanberg, 60 and the son as Jesson Kusell, 18.The paper said the two were attacked and fled inside the Huafai Temple at 6 am.Pol Capt Jirasak Nakham, an officer on duty of Mueang Chiang Mai police station, was informed of the incident at 6:40 am.He sent a team of patrol police and rescuers from Central Chiang Mai Memorial Hospital to the temple.The officials found that the father was hit at his head and body while the son was stabbed below his left chest. The two were under care of monks inside the chapel.Rescuers rushed them to the Central Chiang Mai Memorial Hospital but they refused to receive treatment there. They instead took a tuktuk to Vej Chiang Mai Hospital and received treatment there.Mueang Chiang Mai police chief Pol Col Weerayut Prasopchokechai said the 191 police emergency center Chiang Mai was alerted at 6 am that two foreigners were assaulted in front of a 7-Eleven shop in front of the entrance to the Chiang Mai Land housing estate at about six am. But when police rushed there they did not find anyone.Police later learned that the two foreigners fled inside the temple.Weerayut said police found that the father and son drank and ate at the Kinnaree Karaoke shop on the Chang Klan Road Monday night but they refused to pay the bill, claiming the drinks and foods were too expensive. As a result, they engaged in a quarrel with the shop's employees.Weerayut said police would later interrogate both sides before taking further actions.
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Nong Khai:- A Thai woman has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle 3.5 kilograms of cocaine into Thailand. She claimed that she was lured by a Canadian man she met online to carry the bag without knowing that it contained the drug.Molsawan Thianyaem, 26, was arrested by customs officials at the Mueang Nong Khai border checkpoint on Sunday after she carried a large suitcase down a bus to the customs checkpoint for clearance.Customs officials found four new women handbags inside the suitcase but the handbags' inside cloth layer appeared to have been cut open and re-sewed. Officials opened the cloth layer and found cocaine packed in brown paper with the combined weight of 3.5 kilograms.The arrest of Molsawan was announced at a press conference at the Nong Khai customs checkpoint at 6:30 pm Tuesday by Nong Khai Governor Suchart Noppawan. Suchart said the drug had street value of about Bt12 million.With tears in her eyes, Molsawan told the press conference that she was hired by a 40-year-old Canadian whom she knew only by the first name of Michel to carry the suitcase.Molsawan said she met the farang at an online dating website about a week before he hired her Bt20,000 to carry the suitcase. She said the profile picture showed that the man is good looking and appears respectable in a suit.Molsawan said she was told by the Canadian that he wanted her to help him smuggle in luxurious handbags from Laos. She was told to pick up the suitcase left beside a pole at the Vientiane morning market and she was supposed to leave it at the Morchit bus terminal in Bangkok.
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Bangkok: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has announced garbage disposal as a national agenda and has assigned the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry to draft a road map for sustainable disposal of garbage, Interior Minister Gen Anupong Paochinda said Tuesday.Speaking to reporters after the weekly Cabinet meeting, Anupong said Prayut also assigned the Interior Ministry to be in charge of collecting garbage from the people for sustainable disposal in line with the road map to be drafted by the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry.During the meeting, Prayut expressed concern that there have been no sustainable method for garbage disposal so the prime minister decided to make it a national agenda, Anupong said.He said Prayut wanted to build garbage power plants in several parts of the country as a sustainable measure of disposal.Several garbage power plant projects have met strong opposition from local residents.Anupong said Prayut wanted the government agencies concerned to explain to local people that garbage power plants would be necessary or else more landfill sites would be needed.The prime minister pointed out that there are now 141 major landfills nationwide and the garbage at the landfills could power up to 44 power plants.Earlier, the Cabinet has approved a proposal that small power plant fueled by garbage would be exempted from environment impact assessment.Anupong said about 500 tons of garbage a day would be suitable for fueling a power plant.He said the Cabinet would later consider whether to invest in the power plants or give concession to private firms or carry out joint investments.
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Rayong:- An elephant gored a Thai man and kicked another when its owner led it to beg for foods on a Rayong beach late Monday night.Witthawat Uanduangdee, 21, the owner, was arrested and fined by police following the incident that took place at a roadside foods shop on the PMY Beach in Rayong's Mueang district.Pol Lt Thawat Nongsingha, an officer on duty of the Mueang Rayong police station, was informed of the incident at 11:30 pm Monday.He inspected the scene and was informed that the two injured men had been rushed to the Bangkok Rayong Hospital.The two men were identified as Weeranat Yoodee, 28 and Thongpoon Boonraksa, 30. Weeranat was gored at his right side of the body and on the chest, inflicting two wounds on the chest and one on the right side of the body. Thongpoon was kicked at his right side of the body.Their friend, Kusuma Laoparn, 32, told police that the three of them were drinking and eating on a mat on the roadside when Witthawat led the elephant to them, asking them to buy sugarcane to feed the pachyderm.Kusuma said she refused to buy the sugarcane and the mahout turned to signal to the elephant not to walk closer to the group but the elephant somehow turned angry and attacked Weeranat and Thongpoon.Witthawat said he took two elephants from Buri Ram's Chumphol Buri district to sell elephants' feeds to tourists. He has been selling the feeds for four days without problems. He said his elephant was apparently frightened by a flash or certain light and it stopped after the attack.Witthawat was charged with taking elephants out of his province without permit and for causing injuries to others.
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Bangkok:- Illegal foreign tour guides may be allowed to work legally for tour companies as tour coordinators if the plan of the Tourism Department of the Tourism and Transport Ministry is approved by the prime minister next week, a senior official said.Promchote Traiwej, deputy director general of the Tourism Department, said his department would next week propose a measure for solving the issue of foreigners working illegally as tour guides to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.If the measure is approved by Prayut, the foreigners, who are working illegally as tour guides, can register themselves at Thai embassies and the Foreign Ministry and they would be allowed to work as tour coordinators.Promchote said measure would bring illegal tour guides into the system so that they would pay taxes. Moreover, the tour coordinators can provide language help to Thai tour guides, the deputy director general said.He said the measure has been agreed upon during consultations with the Employment Department of the Labour Department, the Foreign Ministry, the Interior Ministry, and Department of Special Investigation.He explained that the Thai laws do not allow foreigners to work as tour guides so they would have to be employed as assistant to tour guides or as tour coordinators in tour companies.Tourism Minister Korbkarn Wattanavrangkul said Prayut attached high priority to the issue of illegal tour guides and the lack of quality guide.She said her ministry would try to improve the quality of Thai guides and would have local tour guides to practice speaking foreign languages with native speakers at least one hour a day.
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Bangkok:- A taxi driver was awarded US$100 after he returned a bag with cash and valuables worth more than Bt50,000 to its owner.The taxi driver, Surasi Butrprom, 43, left the bag with the Sor Wor Por FM91 radio station to look for its owner on Saturday after he spotted the bag left under the front passenger seat at 9 am on Saturday.The radio station contacted the owner, Ankur Gumber, 31, to come to meet the driver at the station at noon Sunday to get the bag and valuables back. Gumber gave Surasi US$100 as a reward.The bag contained three plane tickets, three passports, Bt13,500 in cash, 9 US$100 banknotes, 428 yuan in cash, 2,730 rupee in cash and an iPad tablet computer.[Photo credit: Thairath]Surasi recounted that he took an Indian couple and their son from the Suvarnabhumi International Airport to Lebua Silom Hotel at 10 pm Friday. He said he and hotel bellboys checked the taxi thoroughly and did not find that the family forgot anything in his taxi so he left.Surasi said he picked up two more foreign tourists to Rajdamri before he returned home to Pathum Thani to rest.He said he got up at 9 am Saturday and cleaned the taxi and found the bag under the front passenger's seat so he contacted the radio station to help locate the owner.“I'm very happy to return it to the owner. I don't want others people's things,” Surasi said.Gumber said he was impressed in the good deed of the taxi driver. Without his help, his family would have been in trouble, he added.
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Phuket: Chinese businessmen have been using Thais as fronts to open tourism businesses in Phuket to cater increasing number of Chinese tourists, Post Today reported.The Chinese firms have collaborated with tourism companies from their country to provide Chinese customers to their shops, and preventing Thai firms from receiving benefits from the huge number of Chinese tourists, Post Today quoted a former Thai entrepreneur as saying.Ekkachai Chamnarnkhao, who used to own a souvenir shop in Phuket, alleged that Chinese entrepreneurs had used their influence to force some 20 to 30 souvenir shops on Kata and Karon beaches near certain hotels to close their shops.Ekkachai alleged that the Chinese tourism business groups forced certain hotels to cooperate with certain local government agencies to force Thai shops to close or else the groups would not feed Chinese tourists to the hotels.Chinese firms then opened their own shops to cater tourists from China. Apart from souvenir shops, Chinese entrepreneurs also opened restaurants, jewelry shops and entertainment places to cater the Chinese tourists, Ekkachai told Post Today.He alleged that Chinese businessmen also ran land and marine transport services to serve the Chinese tourists, and thus they monopolized services of tourists from China.“They have bought some 50 to 100 speedboats. Thais almost got nothing from Chinese tourists,” Ekkachai alleged.Post Today also quoted Khachorn Weerajai, deputy permanent secretary for Tourism and Sports Ministry, as saying that the ministry had learned that many Chinese firms had used Thai nominees to open businesses in Phuket and other provinces which are popular destinations of Chinese tourists.
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Phuket:- A Turkish couple were rescued from Khao Phra Thaew Wildlife Sanctuary late Saturday night about five hours after they called a tourist emergency number to inform that they got lost in the forest.Pinar Bulent, 34, her husband, Burak Bulent, 36, were found dehydrated at a big tree in the wildlife sanctuary that has been marked EOS11 by park officials as they have called to inform the officials.The couple used their mobile phone to call the 1155 emergency number of Phuket tourist police at 7 pm, saying they got lost in the forest. They said they would wait for rescuers at the tree with EOS11 sign.[Photo credit: Thairath]The tourist police in turn alerted the wildlife sanctuary office, which sent out two teams of rescuers to search for them.The two left their rented motorcycle in front of the Khao Phra Thaew Wildlife Sanctuary office at 1 pm before walking into the forest.At first the two rescue teams searched around the wildlife sanctuary office and did not find the couple. So, the rescuers had to walk deeper into the forest.Byt 10:20 pm, a searching team spotted the couple tired and dehydrated near the tree with the EOS11 sign. They were given water and the rescue team escorted them down the mountain to the Bang Mae Pae Waterfall office at 00:30 am Sunday.The rescue operation lasted about five hours.Rescuers from the Kusoltham Phuket rushed the two to the Thalang district hospital for medical checkup.The couple thanked their rescuers and gave them a wai after they got out of the forest.
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Chon Buri:- Five Nigerian men and a Thai women have been arrested for having allegedly run an online love scam to deceive Thai gay men to wire them money.Pol Lt Gen Thanet Pinmueangnarm, commissioner of the Provincial Police Bureau 2 in charge of Chon Buri, said the six suspects have been arrested at the Rim Haad Condominium in Tambon Nongplua in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district.The Thai woman, Wanwisa Wongkrung, 30, was alleged collaborator with the five Nigerians, Thanet said.Police seized nine ATM cards, nine bank books, eight mobile phones and a notebook computer. The five Nigerians were also charged with having entered the country illegally.Thanet said the gang opened a website called, Planet Romeo Gay Dating and the gang members pretended to be handsome farang gay men and picked on their victims among Thai gay men.The Nigerians would deceive their victims that they would come to Thailand to visit them and would bring a lot of money to invest in the country.The Thai woman would then pretend to be an immigration officer and told the victims that the gate dates have arrived at an airport but they were stopped for smuggling hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.The Thai victims were told to transfer money to pay a fine so that their gay dates could be freed.Thanet said police checked the bank accounts of the gang and found that several victims had wired them money. He urged the victims to come forward to file complaints with police.Early this month, a Thai gay man filed a complaint with the Pattaya police station that he fell victim of the online love scam.
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