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Samut Sakhon: – The father of a 19-year-old suspect has begged for forgiveness from the family of 18-year-old man who was beaten and set on fire due to a lover’s quarrel.The victim, Kachorn Kitruekchai, was in coma for 84 days before he died of serious burn injuries.The father of the suspect said he would personally ensure his son’s punishment to the fullest extent of the law.Based on police report, two suspects, Patchara Thienchusak and Chantararak Lansin, 20, have been charged for assault causing death of Kachorn.The crime happened in December. Chatararak had an argument leading to the break-up with Kachorn.She later asked her ex-boyfriend Patchara to attack the victim giving him “a lesson”.She convinced the victim to travel from his home in Krathumban district to Kanchanaburi’s Sangkhlaburi district in order to sort out their problem.After the victim arrived at the remote meeting place, she assisted Patchara to beat him senseless before set him on fire. The two left the burning victim at the roadside.A passer-by alerted the rescue workers and police to put out the fire. The victim was hospitalised for months before his death.Patchara and Chantararak are being remanded pending the trial.After his arrest, Patchara told police he got carried away by rage while beating the victim. He said the victim had sexually violated Chantararak and refused to show responsibility.Chatararak said she wanted her “revenge”.The victim’s family has been holding the funeral at WatSuwanratanaram, Krathumban district.Patchara’s father Pairat attended the funeral last night. He said he was sorry for his son’s act of cruelty and that as a father he could empathise with the loss of the victim’s father and mother.
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Koh Samui, Surat Thani:- When you encounter a snake on Koh Samui, who you gonna call?The answer is Phillip Book, 43, the only British vet who runs the Samui Snake Rescue Center on the tiny tourist-destination island.Tuesday evening, Book was called to capture a four-meter-long king cobra from a public toilet room at the Khao Yai Waterfall in Tambon Namuang.Initially, Thanonsak Jantharumporn, a rescue volunteer of Kusol Songkroah Foundation on the island was called by local residents at 6 pm that a king cobra was spotted in the toilet room.Thanongsak and team rushed to the team only to be terrified by the large snake so the rescuers called for Book’s help.Book rushed to the scene and found the snake curling in the toilet room. He walked unequipped to grab the snake by its neck and took it out amid cheers by local villagers and tourists.A reporter of Khao Sod interviewed Book and learned that the Briton has been living on Koh Samui for 15 years.He said he worked as a vet in England and he loves snakes and is specialized in caring all kinds of snakes.When he came to live on Koh Samui, he helped take care of ill animals and local people often called him to capture snakes that entered their houses.Book said he always rehabilitated the snakes before he released them into the wild.He said he has opened the Samui Snake Rescue Center as a non-profit organization.He has just captured a 4-meter-long python Tuesday morning before he was called to capture the king cobra in the evening. Both of them will be rehabilitated and released.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- Two Russian men have been arrested for having allegedly used fake credit cards to buy goods in Pattaya.The arrest of Temur Rustamov, 35, and Evgeny Titov, 27, were announced by Chon Buri deputy police chief Pol Col Pratya Prasarnsuk and Pattaya police chief Pol Col Sukthat Pumphanmuang at 1 pm Tuesday.Police displayed 79 plastic cards with magnetic strips, a notebook computer and a device for reading and writing information on magnetic strip of a plastic card.Pratya said police were alerted by officials from Kasikorn Bank that a foreigner had used fake credit cards to buy goods from department stores in Pattaya.He ordered Chon Buri’s Economic Crime Suppression office chief Pol Lt Chitdecha Songhong to conduct an investigation.Chitdecha’s team later found that Rustamov had bought luxurious brands clothes inside the Central Festival shopping mall on the Pattaya Beach Road.Police later found that Rustamov was buying plane tickets to Dubai from a tour company on Soi 13 off the 2nd Pattaya Road so police rushed to the firm and arrested him and found many fake credit cards on him.Rustamov implicated Titov. Rustamov said he got the fake cards from Titov so police raided an apartment on Soi 10 on the South Pattaya Road and arrested the second Russian.Police found more fake credit cards and the electronic-strip writing device and a notebook computer in Titov’s room.Following an interrogation, Titov admitted that he got the fake cards from Russia. He said the cards were written with information stolen from foreigners’ credit cards.Pratya said the two Russians had allegedly caused damage worth about Bt1 million.
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Pattaya, Chonburi:- Police are stepping a manhunt for a lady boy and Thai woman who have allegedly stolen cash and valuables from a Danish and a German tourists within hours early Tuesday.In another case, another German tourist also fell victim to two lady-boy pickpockets on Pattaya beach.Pol Lt Siraphudej Chamnarnkit, an interrogator on duty at the Pattaya police station, received a complaint from the first victim, Torben Fries, 49, at 4 am.Fries from Denmark told the police officer that he was riding a songthaew bus from the Wat Chai Mongkol Intersection in South Pattaya to Central Pattaya, when two Thais got up and flanked him.Fries recounted that one of them is a lady boy and the other is a Thai woman. After the two got down, Fries said he found that his Bt15,000 cash had disappeared.Shortly after Fries met police, the second victim, Bruno Rummel, 50, came to the police station to file a complaint.Rummel, a German tourist, said his Samsung Note 2 was stolen by a lady boy and a Thai woman.Police showed him pictures of a lady boy and woman, Rummel confirmed that the pictures belonged to the suspects.Siraphudej said police have the two’s pictures because the pair have been earlier arrested related to several cases of pickpocketing. They have been released on bail pending the process of the cases.Shortly, after the second victim filed the complaint, Herbert Govves, 59, another German, came to the police station to file a complaint.Govves said he was strolling Pattaya beach when two lady boys approached him and offered sex service. He said when the two left, his wallet with 100 euro and Bt1,700 in cash and several ID cards was gone.
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Bangkok:- Five Vietnamese suspects have come to Thailand’s Chiang Mai province a few times already with the ultimate goal of stealing expensive fashion products.But this time, they got arrested.On Monday, police announced the arrests of five Vietnamese shoplifters. They are between 24 and 39 years old.All of them were nabbed in front of a hotel in Chiang Mai. Found in their possession are 54 pieces of blouses, shirts, belts, and hats that they secretly took out of the Central Festival Chiangmai. Altogether, these products are worth Bt48,570.“We have received a report that shoplifting took place at the shopping complex. So, we checked recordings from security cameras there,” Chiang Mai’s police chief Pol Maj General Montri Sambunnanont says.According to police, recordings show these suspects were from the same gang. One of them portrayed herself as a customer and engaged sales assistant. Four other suspects then quickly put other products in the same shop into their specially-made bags.Stuffed with foil, these bags helped the thieves evade the detection of anti-theft system. They could leave without any alarm going off.The Vietnamese suspects have confessed that they had successfully shoplifted many fashion products from the Central Plaza Chiangmai Airport and Central Festival Chiangmai two times before. They took the stolen products back to Vietnam for sale, receiving hundreds of thousand baht.The shoplifters are now detained pending further legal actions.
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Bangkok:- Get your lungs strong and ready as the seventh international run upstairs of the 84-floor Baiyoke 2 Building is coming up.The PTT Baiyoke Run Up International 2015 was announced at a press conference by Phanlert Baiyoke, chairman of the Baiyoke Group, Suparp Sriyotha, deputy chairman of the Thai Jogging Club, and Doctor Phaisarn Pornprapha, director of the Bangkok Hospital.The upcoming seventh PTT Baiyoke Run Up International 2015 will be held on Sunday April 19 at 7am. Runners are required to register from 5am to 6:30 am. Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wissanu Krea-ngarm will chair the launch ceremony and preside over the reward giving ceremony as well.The previous Baiyoke run events have been joined by more and more international runners, the press conference was told.Runners will run up the fire-exit stairway of the 84-floor building with 304-meter height. The stairway has ventilation.Each runner will have to wear a device with computer chip to record his or her run, which will be installed and checked by the Thai Jogging Club.Drinking water will be provided on the 35th, 51st, and 75th floors. Medical teams from the Bangkok Hospital will be on standby on the first, 18th and 84th floor.The competitions are categories by ages and sex groups. There will be competitions for runners who are between 15 to 18 years, 19 to 29 years, 30 to 39 years, 40 to 49 years, 50 to 59 years and more than 60 years for each sex.The best-time runner of all groups will have his or her name recorded on the Hall of Fame on the top floor.Application fee is Bt300.
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Bangkok: – Of the popular Thai dishes served on Thai Airways International flights, stir fried chicken with basil leaves has highest greenhouse gas emission and chicken massaman curry has lowest carbon footprint.The national carrier and Thailand Greenhouse Management Organisation (Public Organisation) have jointly carried out the study of carbon footprint caused by cooking Thai dishes, THAI president Charamporn Jotikasthira said.The study is meant to raise awareness on clean development.Each dish of stir fried chicken with basil leaves emits 1,320 grams of greenhouse gas, followed by chicken green curry with rice and sweet pork sausage (1,180 grams), chicken panang curry with rice and fried garlic kale (1040 grams) and chicken winter-melon curry with rice and fried garlic kale (964 grams).Chicken massaman curry with rice and fried sugar pea emits 957 grams of greenhouse gas.Charamporn said he has instructed the THAI food catering service to find ways reduce carbon footprint when cooking Thai dishes.Starting next month, THAI food served on board will carry carbon label in order to remind passengers about environmental impacts.THAI is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emission caused by cookingPresently the catering service produces about 50,000 Thai dishes per day or 20 million dishes per year and each dish emits an average of 1,000 grams of greenhouse gas.The carbon footprint on cooking is measured from greenhouse gas emitted from cooking, production and transportation of ingredients, work process related to the dishes and waste disposal.THAI has launched the campaign to improve food served on board since November, striving to upgrade from three-star to five-star quality standard.The numbers of food-related complaints have been downed by half following the food quality improvement.
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Tiger temple denies allegation about three missing tigers
File photo. Source: InternetKanchanaburi: – Wildlife conservation authorities have started to check on and count the number of tigers being kept in captivity at Wat Pa Mahabua, also known as tiger temple, Saiyok district.The temple spokesman is, meanwhile, denying the allegation that three of 143 tigers have been stolen or secretly taken from the temple.The temple is one of the popular tourist destinations in the western province. The 149 tigers belong to the National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department.The department has permitted the temple to keep and care for the tigers on its behalf.Last week, veterinarian SomchaiWisetmongkolchai sounded the alarm that three tigers were secretly taken out of the temple. He also claimed the actual number of tigers was 147.After making the allegation, He resigned his position as the temple’s vet.After the tigers at the temple attracted attention of tourists, wildlife conservation authorities intervened to take possession of the tigers, a protected species banned from private captivity and possession.After taking stock of the tigers, the authorities then delegated the temple as wildlife keeper.Somchai’s allegation prompted the authorities to verify the number of tigers.But the counting of tigers embedded with microchips could not complete in a day because of the presence of tourists. After the temple closed for visitors, heavy rain slowed down the counting process.The authorities will today resume the counting and verification process.Temple spokesman Supitpong Pakcharung said he suspected Somchai to have a hidden agenda in making the “groundless” allegation.The temple is consulting with people concerned before deciding whether to file libel charge against Somchai, he said.
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Bangkok:- Eagle has become the only cat that is allowed to enter and leave the Thai Kufah building which is the office of the prime minister at will, Matichon Online reported.Matichon said Eagle appeared for the first time inside the Government House compound last month and the stray cat has become much loved by both Government House-beat reporters and Government House officials soon afterward.The news website said the cat is called by most reporters as Eagle because of the green collar being worn is of Eagle brand.According to Matichon, while reporters were waiting to interview Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, they often spotted the black cat with green collar playing cheerfully in front of the Thai Kufah building.On Friday after the cat was seen running to the front door and scratching the door after lying and rolling around in front of the building. An official opened the door to let Eagle inside. Normally, reporters are not allowed to enter the building without approval from the prime minister, let alone a stray animal.Reporters, who were waiting for the prime minister, saw the incident and some wondered whether the prime minister would emerge holding the cat.Matichon said no one knew where Eagle came from. The cat was seen the first time last month, running and lying in the middle of the road when the Government House held an orchid fair.Eagle was also seen lying and playing in front of the Naree Samosorn Building as well when the spokesmen team held press conference after Cabinet meetings.Sometimes, Eagle asked reporters to open the “Sparrow Nest” or reporters’ den to enter and lie in the air-conditioned room.Sometimes, Eagle waited for the prime minister’ motorcade, prompting a police to hold the cat for fear of being accidentally run down.In some evenings, Eagle was seen fighting against a monitor lizard, prompting a reporter to intervene and take the cat to the reporters’ den.
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Bangkok:- A 29-year-old Malaysian man has been arrested at the Don Mueang International Airport with 11 fake credit cards and luxurious handbags worth Bt1.1 million.The arrest of Wong Chen Jear was announced by Pol Col Sorarak Jusanit, deputy commander of the Economic Crime Suppression Division at the ECSD head office at 1 pm Monday.At the press conference, police showed 11 fake credit cards and five Hermes handbags worth Bt1.105 million allegedly seized from Wong when he was arrested on the third floor at the immigration counter of the Don Mueang International Airport.Sorarak said the ECSD police were informed at noon on Sunday that a foreigner, who looked like a Chinese, used other people’s credit cards to try to buy goods at the PMT The Hour Glass shop on the first floor of the Kesorn Plaza shopping mall in Pathumwan district.Sorarak said the man could not win approval from credit card firms for the purchase and left the shop.Police conducted an investigation and learned his identity. Police also learned that the man used a fake credit card to buy five Hermes bags at a popular shopping mall in Chidlom area .Sorarak said the ECSD found out that Wong was scheduled to leave Thailand at about 1 pm Sunday so the ECSD coordinated with immigration police to arrest him and seized the evidences.Sorarak quoted Wong as saying that he entered Thailand for the first time alone. He said he was in debt in Malaysia and his debtor asked him to travel to Bangkok to buy goods with fake credit cards to repay his debt.Sorarak said Wong entered Thailand on Saturday and was scheduled to return on Sunday.
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Bangkok:- Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is planning to improve water quality in many major canals including the Saen Saeb in honor of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.The princess will celebrate her 60th birthday next month.“We will start with the Saen Saeb,” says Kangwan Deesuwan, the chief of BMA’s Drainage and Sewerage Department.Stretching for about 40 and 50 kilometers long in Bangkok, this canal has served as a key transportation route. About 100 boats offer public-transport services along an 18-km stretch of this canal daily.“We will try to improve the quality of the water to a point that it does not emit foul smell,” Kangwan says, “It will become clean and clear”.He says as the Saen Saeb takes in water from Chan and Bang Toei canals, along which are located many crowded communities, the BMA tackle water-pollution problems right from the start there.“We can use aeration and many other techniques. We hope we will complete the task in three months,” he adds.He says after that, the BMA will also work on other major canals such as Lardprao, Premprachakorn, Sam Wa, Lad Bua Khao, Bang Sue, Prawet Burirom, and Phra Khanong canals.Meanwhile, Deputy Bangkok City Clerk Adisal Khantee says the city administration will use campaigns in nudging people into taking care of canals.“For example, they should not dump garbage into canals. Also, they should install grease traps in their households,” he adds.He says district offices under the BMA’s supervision will help with the campaigns.
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Bangkok:- The acting chief of Airport Rail Link Co Ltd aims at making profit after it is separated into an independent firm from the State Railway of Thailand.Pakorn Tungjetsakao, acting director of Airport Rail Link, said he is in negotiation with the SRT to separate Airport Rail Link assets from the SRT.If the SRT agrees, the Airport Rail Link will get to manage its own nine electric trains plus seven more trains which are now under procurements.Moreover, the Airport Rail Link will receive an operation fund of Bt1.86 billion that the Finance Ministry has committed.With its own assets and operation fund, the Airport Rail Link will be able to manage its service more efficiently and will start making profit soon, Pakorn added.He said the Airport Rail Link planned to obtain loans for Bt5.152 billion to buy more trains for the third and fourth lots of procurements. The procurements would be completed in 2031.He added that the Airport Rail Link services will be expanded from Phayathai station to Don Mueang airport and from the Suvarnabhumi station to the U-Tapao airport and the company will hire 400 more personnel.Last year, Airport Rail Link had a total expenditure of Bt900 million because it had to buy spare parts for maintenance while its income was Bt535 million. So, its operation saw a loss of Bt365 million.Pakorn said Airport Rail Link decided to stop its service from midnight to 00:30 am after it found that there were only 20 passengers per trip in the period. The cancellation of the service after midnight would begin on April 1.
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Bangkok:- The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will add 10,000 more bicycles to its Pun Pun (Bicycle Sharing) service for Bangkok commuters to borrow and ride to sneak through congested Bangkok streets.Amorn Kijchawengkul, deputy BMA governor, said currently the Pun Pun project has 500 bicycles in service at 50 Pun Pun stations in Bangkok. The bicycles have been in service since 2012.Amorn said the BMA planned to add 10,000 more bicycles to service in appropriate areas so that Bangkok commuters would have a mean to shuttle between mass transport systems amid traffic congestion.Amorn said the BMA’s Traffic and Transport Department is considering a method for renting the new 10,000 bicycles after the current method of the Pun Pun project led to complaints about untidy advertising signs at the 50 bicycle stations.Thaweesak Lertpraphan, director of the department, said currently the BMA has given a concession to the Smart Bike Service, a company under the Q Group, to carry out the Pun Pun service.The Smart Bike Service allows the bicycles to be borrowed free of charge for the first 15 minutes and Bt10 for one hour, Bt20 for three hours, Bt40 for five hours, Bt80 for eight hours.Since Smart Bike Service had to invest in the bike procurements and maintenance services and management, the BMA allowed it to have revenue via advertisement at the bike stations, Thaweesak said. This led to public complaints that the stations looked untidy.Thaweesak said the 10,000 new bikes would be rented along the electric train routes and the BMA might seek cooperation from private firms in form of CSR by allowing them to put their company’s logo on the bikes.
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Chiang Mai: – Provincial police have arrested four teenagers, aged ranging from 12 to 17, on suspicion of stealing iPhones from Hua Hin and trying to sell in the northern province.Responding to a tip-off by an anonymous mobile phone vendor, police uncovered 31 brand new iPhones at a hotel’s lobby before the delivery arranged through an online sale website.The checks confirm that the seized mobile phones were stolen from a True shop in Hua Hin.Police said some 162 mobile phones were reported missing after the Hua Hin robbery on March 18.In alerting police, the vendor informant said he noticed a recent posting on the website advertising the sale of brand new iPhones at an extremely-low price.He replied and expressed his interest to buy 10 handsets. After completing the price negotiations, he and the seller arranged to meet at the hotel’s lobby in Mueang Chiang Mai district.Before taking delivery of the handsets, he checked the international mobile equipment identification numbers and found that they were corresponding to those reported as stolen and impounded in Hua Hin.He then reported his discovery to police, leading to the seizure of the 10 handsets plus other 21 hidden in the handbag.The four teenagers admitted they broke into and stole the handsets from Hua Hin.As the police circulated the list of stolen handsets, the four tried to sell in faraway towns such as Chiang Mai and Ubon Ratchathani.They said they managed to sell to unwitting customers in UbonRatchathani before arriving in Chiang Mai.
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Phitsanulok: – An unemployed husband killed two family members and inflicted serious knife injuries on his wife, police said, adding that the infant, one month, has survived.Alerted about domestic dispute by neighbours, Police Lieutenant Kecha Paksawat went to investigate the scene in Nakhon Thai district.Based on statements of witnesses, Chaiphol Huemphol, 35, had an argument with his wife Pratchaya Donchan, 37.Chaiphol was construction worker. Neighbours said he often attacked his wife after losing the job.As Pratchaya’s mother Puan Donchan, 62, tried to intervene and stop Chaiphol from beating the wife.Chaiphol apparently went into a rage and used a knife to slash Puan in the throat, killing her.Then he stabbed Pratchaya, inflicting many serious wounds.As the wife’s male relative Kanchai Benjamat, 18, stepped in and tried to take her to the hospital, he stabbed the relative too.The two fell in the pool of blood. Witnesses said they thought the two were dead.Later Chaiphol picked up his boy infant and fled to a guard shelter in the rice field.After Kesha arrived at the scene, Chaiphol had already hung himself and died. The infant was left unhurt and unattended nearby.The policeman also found Pratchaya and Kanchai were still barely alive before rushing them to the hospital.Prachaya was admitted for treatments. She remains in critical condition and cannot give any statement.Kanchai was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.Police are checking how and why neighbours and witnesses took hours before reporting the night’s incident to police in the morning.
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Bangkok:- The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s City Planning Department is planning to relax the rules that prohibit constructions of high-rise buildings around the King Rama IX Park, the director of the department said.Wanchai Thanomsak, director of the BMA’s City Planning Department, said the department had received complaints from people near the park that the areas around the park have become an important economic zone of Bangkok so the rules should be changed.As a result, the department sees that the people’s rights may be restricted too much if they are prohibited from constructing tall buildings in the areas around the park.Wanchai said currently the areas around the park, including the areas in Nong Bon and Prawes districts, are under the rules of the Building Control Act of 1979.The rules enacted under the act defined several layers of zones around the park that control the constructions of buildings for the sake of green environment.For example, the areas next to the park are allowed to have only single houses. Wanchai said his department plans to relax the rules to allow the contractions of twin houses, townhouses and commercial buildings as well.The areas around the park are allowed to have buildings not higher than 15 meters, 23 meters and 45 meters respectively depending on the layers. Wanchai said his department plans to relax the rules to allow the height in line with the suitability of the areas.He said his department would take about one month to study how to relax the rules and the amended rules will be submitted to the Bangkok Council for approval.
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Bangkok:- A talk of the town on online social networks that a farang family was abandoned by a taxi on expressway seemed to take a new twist following an investigation by the Land Transport Department.On March 16, a Facebook user, Surachai Hiranpradithkul posted a picture of a farang man, his wife and their baby on his wall, saying the unidentified family had been abandoned on the elevated expressway near the Asoke tollgate.Surachai claimed his friend, who is an expressway police, helped transport the family to the ground.The post was widely shared by Facebook users, who strongly criticized the unknown taxi driver.Several Thai online news websites played up the issue, with headlines like Suvarnabhumi airport taxi did it again.But Phet Chuncharoen, deputy director of the Suvarnabhumi airport, said airport officials checked the footage of passengers taking taxis at all gates of the airport on March 16 and did not spot the family as shown in the photo.On Saturday, Land Transport Deputy Director Suchart Klinsuwan said he had talked to Surachai’s friend who found the family and who took the picture and the friend said he was not sure that the family had been abandoned by a taxi.Suchart said Surachai’s friend spotted the family walking to the Asoke gate at about 5:50 pm so he offered them a ride and pointed them out how to get out of the expressway. The friend admitted that he did not see any taxi at the spot.Suchart also checked with an official the Asoke gateway and found out that the farang couple did not cry foul that they had been abandoned. They simply said calmly that they wanted to go to the Tourism Authority of Thailand head office on the Phetchaburi Road to get more tourist information.
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Chiang Rai:- A Thai woman was killed at noon Sunday after her motorcycle was hit by a speeding car driven by a Chinese tourist, police said.The accident happened on Terng-Chiang Rai Road in Jambon village in Tambon Doilarn in Mueang Chiang Rai district shortly before 12:30 pm.Pol Lt Col Passakorn Sukha, an interrogator of Mueang Chiang Rai police station, was alerted of the accident at 12:30pm.He rushed to scene with a forensic doctor and found that Kanokporn Khamnoi, 41, a resident of the Mueang district, had already died. She suffered a broken neck and several wounds.A red Honda motorcycle was found near her. About 20 meters away from the body of Kanokporn, police found a Kawasaki motorcycle that was completely damaged.Police found that the rider of Kawasaki motorcycle, Payuha Nilpho, 30, was unhurt. Payuha, from Lop Buri, appeared shocked.Also found at the scene, a black Mitsubishi sedan car with Chinese license plate. It was in the middle of the road and its front bumper was badly damaged. The car was driven by Choen Yung Jun who waited to surrender to police.Eyewitnesses told police that they saw two cars with Chinese license plates running very fast while the Kawasaki motorcycle was about to leave the soi at the spot.One of the car was sped up toward the Kawasaki motorcycle, prompting Payuha to jump off his bike and narrowly escaped a hit.After the Chinese car hit the first motorcycle, it was served and crossed to the other side of the road and hit Kanokporn’s motorcycle.The Chinese driver was taken to the Mueang police station for legal action.
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Phuket:- A 21-year-old Briton turned a pistol on himself and was killed inside a shooting range in Phuket’s Thalang district Saturday afternoon, police said.Pol Lt Kraisorn Boonprasop, an interrogator of Thalang police station, identified the man as Colven Liam.He was shot once at his right temple with a .45mm automatic pistol. The bullet pieced through his left temple.Kraisorn was alerted of the shooting incident at 3:45 pm at the Thalang shooting gallery.Police took the gun powder trace from his hand and the spent shells at the scene for further investigation.Kraisorn said police checked the footage of security cameras in the gallery and saw Liam carrying a bag and walking into the shooting range.He then walked to a shooting corner where Navin Inparn, 36, was supervising. Liam then took off his shirt and placed it on his bag.He emptied seven bullets loaded by Navin into a paper target. All the shots hit the target. After Navi reloaded the gun and handed it to Liam, he raised it to his temple and fired, the video footage showed.A horrified Navin then ran for help from other officials at the range.Navin later told police that Liam asked him to reload the gun with just three bullets. When he saw Liam raised the gun to his head, Navin was startled and tried to push it away but he could not react in time.Prasert Pasaman, 47, a taxi driver, said he picked up Liam from a hotel on Bangthao beach in Thalang.Prasert said Liam did not appear under tension while riding the taxi.
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Roi Et: – Provincial police have sought and received the arrest warrants for job fraud suspect after a senior official unwittingly walked into the crime in progress at a Buddhist temple.Police are conducting a manhunt for suspect Aekkapong Srihad, 29 to face charges related to the job placement scam.Roi Et police chief Colonel Weerawat Srabua said provincial chief drug buster Nopporn Chantarasena alerted police to the scam.Nopporn paid a visit to Wat Srirat, Mueang Roi Et district. While he was talking to temple’s abbot Phra Khru Vijit, he saw some 21 people dressed in civil service uniforms attending a training course at the temple.He said the abbot told him that a man who claimed to be from the provincial office of the Social Development and Human Security Ministry had asked the temple to organise the course on morals for newly-employed civil servants.The man paid 25,000 baht for the temple’s course, he said.He said he was unaware of any civil service hiring in the province, prompting him to check with the ministry.The ministry confirmed there was no job hiring and police went to investigate at the temple.The 21, comprising 10 men and 11 women, aged 18 to 30, were villagers from Pathum Rat district.The villagers told police that Ekkapong and three to four accomplices went to their villages to accept job applications for civil service positions.Ekkapong said they would have to attend the temple’s training course for 29 days in lieu of taking job enrolment tests.Each applicant would have to pay the course fee ranging from 30,000 baht to 120,000 baht depending on the position applied.Police tallied the payments totalling 1.7 million baht.
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Bangkok: – The education authorities have launched a fact-finding investigation into a male teacher on suspicion of having molested four boys, aged 8 to 11, during a school trip to Singapore.Education Minister Narong Pipatanasai has ordered for speedy legal and disciplinary action to mete out maximum penalty if the teacher is found guilty.The case came to light after the parents of one of the four boys had lodged a complaint at the Office of the Basic Education Commission.Based on the complaint, a high school in Ramkhamhaeng area organised a field trip taking 46 students to Singapore on March 8 to 11.The trip was supposed to expose the students to international science studies. Three teachers, two males and one female, were designated chaperones.After returning from the trip, one of the four boys told his parents that he and his three friends were molested by one of the two male teachers.The parents said the teacher in question was effeminate.OBEC secretary general Kamol Rodklai said OBEC’s Child Protection Centre has already taken steps to assist the victims.The teacher in question was transferred out of the school, paving way for the probe into alleged sexual violations, Kamol said.Thipa Bhawangkanantha, head of child protection, said the centre would provide counselling for the four victims.In addition to petitioning the OBEC, the parents have asked police to look into the case.Suphensri Phuengkoksoong, official of the National Human Rights Commission, said pending the outcome of the investigation, the teacher should be suspended from duty.Suphensri said she saw the job transfer in lieu of suspension as a slab on the wrist.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri: A body of unidentified western man was spotted floating in the Pattaya sea Saturday, police said.Pol Lt Sombat Kaewmulmook, an interrogator of of Pattaya police station, receive a phone call at 10 am, informing that a farang’s body was seen floating near Koh Joon, about one nautical mile from Pattaya beach.He and marine police and rescuers from Sawang Boribun Pattaya Foundation rushed to the spot in a speed boat.The body was found about 100 meters from the island. He was facing down in the sea and had no shirt. He was wearing swimming trunk with blue strips on the left and right sides.Officials did not find any trace of injuries on his body. It was expected he had died for 12 hours.The foundation rescuers retrieved the body and sent it to the Bang Lamung Hospital for transfer to the Police Hospital for an autopsy.Thom Yutthasunthorn, 34, who lets tourist rent beach umbrellas and beds in front of Soi 13/2 on the Pattaya Beach Road, said he remembered seeing the man renting a canvas bed of another operator next to his lot.He saw the man going to swim in the sea. Hours later, the man did not return to his canvas bed. He said the owner of the bed also asked him whether he saw the farang tourist. He replied that he didn’t see him and expected that the man might return to his hotel.Thom said when he heard a body was found, he came to check and found that it was the same tourist.Police suspected that the tourist drowned while swimming and his body was washed out by the tide.
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Bangkok:- A 60-year-old Frenchman jumped from a room of a Bangkok apartment he has been living for seven years to his death Saturday afternoon, police said.Pol Lt Mongkol Praisoon, an interrogator of Thung Mahamek police station, identified the man as Christophe Patrice Allaire.Mongkol said he received a phone call from the apartment at 2:30 pm after Allaire jumped from his room on the sixth floor of eight-storey Villa Maria Apartment on Soi 8 off Suan Plu Road in Thung Mahamek sub-district of Sathorn district.He rushed to the scene with officials from Chulalongkorn Hospital’s forensic medicine institute and Por Teck Tueng Foudation’s rescuers.They found Allaire’s body on the car park ground behind the apartment. He had no shirt on and he was wearing grey shorts.Apartment’s officials told police that Allaire has been renting the room No 615 on the sixth floor.The officials checked the room and found that it was locked from the inside. They opened it with a spare key and did not find any sign of foul play.Dolnopporn Srichan, 34, a maid of the building, told police that she was having lunch on the ground floor when she heard something hitting the ground of the car park violently.She rushed to check it and found Allaire’s body.She said Allaire had been living alone. At first, a Thai woman stayed with him but the two separated for years. She said the man rarely talked to anyone when he returned to the apartment. She said he had been living in the apartment for about seven years.Mongkol said footage from security cameras showed no one entering his room. The footage showed that Allaire walked around the balcony of his room two times and jumped down.
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Koh Samui, Surat Thani:- Over 700 policemen and troops took part in the "Operation Samui Dawn" early Friday following a killing of an influential businessman on the tourist-destination island.But the massive manhunt operation on the tiny island failed to net any gunman. Only three suspects in trivial cases were netted in the operation that also used helicopters to hoist down commandoes into some compounds like in action movies.The Operation Samui Dawn was carried out at 6 am. It was led by Central Investigation Bureau acting commissioner Pol Maj Gen Thitiraj Nongharnpitak, Surat Thani police chief Pol Maj Gen Apichart Boonsriroj and Surat Thani Army Province commander Maj Gen Kuakul Innajak.The operation was taken part by 756 officers from the CIB, Surat Thani police head office and the Surat Thani Army province.It was carried out after Panas Khao-uthai, a local businessman, was gunned down in the walking street fair in front of many foreign tourists on March 6.As part of the operation, commandoes from the Crime Suppression Division surrounded the house of Wiwat Chawengchuenban, 41, in Tambon Borphud. His house was one of 26 targets of searches.Then, commandoes were hoisted down from a helicopter to search the compound. Most people in the house were still sleeping. No illegal firearms and drug were found at the place.At 1:30 pm, Thitiraj told a press conference that the Operation Samui Dawn was successful.He said the officials seized 13 guns and 835 rounds of ammunitions and three kilograms of krathom (mitragyna speciosa) leaves as well as a small amount of marijuana during the searches.He said three suspects were arrested – one in an illegal gun case, and two for having krathom leaves in possession.
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