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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- Two alleged adyboy pickpockets – a Thai and a Cambodian – were arrested by Pattaya police once they allegedly stole a wallet from a Japanese tourist early Friday.The two suspects were arrested red-handed by a special operation team of policemen staking out against ladyboy pickpockets, Pol Lt Col Sunan Buawing, a crime suppression inspector of Pattaya police station said.The two were identified as Winai In-sawang, 29, from Suphan Buri and Na Sonjan, 19, from Cambodia. Their victim was identified as as Kochi Ikali, 43.Sunan said a team of special operation team of officers was dispatch to watch ladyboys at risky spots on Pattaya Beach Road following complaints that many of them had stolen wallets from foreign tourists.The team found Winai and Na hugging and talking to the victim near the Best Friends bar on the road at about 3 am.The undercover police saw Winai pull out a wallet from the victim's trousers' pocket. It turned out that wallet had Bt4,990 in cash.The two tried to flee on a motorcycle parked nearby after they got the wallet but the undercover policemen rushed in to capture them at the scene.Sunan said the Cambodian lady boy has been arrested once for stealing valuables from a foreign tourist.Pattaya ladyboys are notorious for pickpocketing. Several foreign tourist have filed complaints with Pattaya police station that their valuables were stolen after they were approached and hugged by ladyboys on Pattaya streets.For example, a foreigner was stolen of his wallet on Soi 7 off the Pattaya Beach Road by ladyboys while he was drunk and the incident was caught on a security camera.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- The body of a 65-year-old Canadian tourist was found floating in the Pattaya sea Thursday, two days after he rented a small sail boat and disappeared.Pol Lt Weerayuth Kangkala, an officer on duty of Pattaya police station, was alerted at 11:30 am that a body was found floating in the Pattaya sea between Koh Larn and Koh Jun, which are parts of Tambon Naklua in Bang Lamung district.Weerayuth and officials from the Sawang Boribun Thmmasathan Pattaya rushed out to the sea.The body was floating in the waterway near Koh Jun. The tourist was later identified as Jean Caroche, 65, a Canadian. He was floating face-down and he was wearing only one black underwear.His body was plugged out of the water and sent to the Balihai pier.His 31-year-old Thai girlfriend, Alura Sondee, told polce that Caroche rented a small sail boat from the beach in front of the Ambassador Jomthien Hotel two days ago.Alura said Caroche did not return to the beach in the evening so she became worried and sought help from local residents to look for him but no one spotted him.Alura said she searched for her boyfriend until the boat was found without his body.She was informed Thursday that the body was found in the sea.Police took the photo for evidence and contacted the Canadian embassy to inform his relatives.In March this year, A body of unidentified western man was spotted floating also near Koh Joon, about one nautical mile from Pattaya beach.
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Songkhla:- About 5,000 big bike riders are expected to join the Sadao Border Bike Week 2015 in Songkhla's Sadao district which officially begins Friday.The event is held by the Samnak Kham Municipality of Tambon Dannok on the multipurpose ground of the VJ Dannok Resort on Kanchanawanit road. The venue ground is quite large with 20 rai of area.Kecha Benjakhan, mayor of the municipality, said about 5,000 big-bike motorcycles from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam will join the event and about 30 super cars from Singapore will also be put on show at the fair.
He said there will also be concerts from well-known Thai singers and Malaysian rock bands. The Thai singers, who will perform at the fair, include Ponthep Kradonechamnarn, Sek Loso, Pong, Kob, and Taxi.The mayor said the event is aimed at promoting tourism of the Sadao border town because earlier, foreign tourists simply passed through Sadao to visit other parts of Thailand.He said tourist destinations in the district include a dinosaur park and there are many hotels from three to five stars available in the district. Kecha noted that the dinosaur park in Sadao is the biggest one in the deep South.The event is an annual tourism activity of Tambon Dannok and it is supported by the Songkhla Provincial Administrative Organization, the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the Sing Corporation, the MBI Group, and the Sadao Riders Club.A part of proceeds from the fair will be given to help local mosques sand schools in remote areas of the tambon.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- A 77-year-old American man was found dead in a Pattaya condominium room Wednesday, police said.Pol Lt Sombat Kaewmoolmook, an interrogator on duty of Pattaya police station, was alerted at 2 pm Wednesday that a foreigner was found dead inside a room of the Center Condotel on South Pattaya Road in Tambon Nongplue of Bang Lamung district.Sombat led a team of police officers and officials from the Sawang Boribun Thammasathan Pattaya Foundation to check the scene.The body of Thomas Stamps Darby was found inside the room No 3/483 on the 14th floor of the condominium. He was lying face-down beside the bed and he had no cloths on.Sombat said officials checked and found no trace of wounds or injuries on his body. The body has started to decompose. Police did not find any trace that suggested that the room might have been searched for valuables.The condominium manager told police that earlier a foreigner came to the condominium office and informed that he could not contact his friend. The foreigner said he had not seen Darby for a few days.The manager rushed to check Darby's room. When he knocked the door, the knock was not answered so he had a staff open the room with a spare key and they found the body.Police suspected that Darby might succumb to his chronic illness. Police found a lot of anti-biotic medicine in the room.The body was sent for an autopsy at the Police Hospital's Forensic Medicine Institute for checking the cause of the death.The US embassy has been informed of the incident.
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Bangkok: The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has instructed its security officers guarding 34 BMA parks around the capital to patrol the parks more frequently to prevent students and other park goers from drinking and having sex.Suwaporn Jermrangsi, the director of the Environment Department, said the instruction has been given following reports that students were seen kissing and hugging in several parks. Many park goers have also been spotted drinking in the compounds, Suwaporn said.[Photo credit: Naew Na]Suwaporn admitted that it would be hard to monitor teenagers from behaving improperly in the parks but the security officers have been instructed to keep special watches on young couples who enter the parks.He said the officials could not closely monitor the park goers for fear of violating their privacy and other park goers did not want to get involved by reporting the incidents to the authorities.Suwaporn said if the officials found the couples acting improperly red-handed, they would give them verbal reprimands.“But most of them would deny that they had done anything wrong. We don't have evidence,” Suwaporn said.He said the laws against public indecency acts have too lenient penalties. In some cases, the BMA security officers had to call police to arrest the couples who refused to heed the warning, Suwaporn added.“I hereby affirm that the BMA has not ignored the issue because it is important. If we do nothing, the Thai culture will get deteriorated. We must the best way to prevent it. Now, the security officers will patrol the parks more frequently,” Suwaporn added.
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Krabi:- Three young farang women have been caught on camera apparently high on laughing gas on Koh Phi Phi.Their pictures have been widely shared on Facebook and other social network, several news website reported Tuesday.Some photos on Daily News showed the three women inhaling gas from three pink balloons while they were lying on footpath. Another photo showed two of them raising their hands and flashing victor signs while their friend in the middle was still inhaling the gas.Manager Online said the three women were lying on a sidewalk of a road in the beer bar area on Koh Phi Phi.[Photo credit: Daily News]Their photos led to criticisms of the law enforcers on the island for having done nothing to prevent certain shops from selling the laughing gas or nitrous oxide to tourists. The online social networkers said the photos of tourists high on the laughing gas had affected the image of Phi Phi that is popular for its natural beauty.Daily News said it had dispatched a reporter to talk to some entertainment venue operators. Daily News said an entertainment venue operator told the reporter that the laughing gas has become a hit among foreign tourists. The operator said western tourists always asked for the laughing gas, prompting many shops, especially those owned by farang, to provide it.Daily News said the gas has been widely available on the island.Krabi chief public health officer Doctor Panas Sophongpong said it has yet to be investigated where the gas originated from.While several Facebook users crtiicized police for doing nothing, several others pointed out that police could do nothing because the gas has not been officially listed as a kind of narcotics.
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Bangkok:- Transport Minister Prajin Juntong has given a green light for the increases of surcharge for taxi services at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport and Don Mueang International Airport, he said Monday.He said the surcharges for small taxis and large van taxis will be allowed to be increased at the rates lower than the ones proposed by a special committee studying the taxi fares at the airports.Prajin said to prevent impact on the people, the Airports of Thailand Plc will be asked to shoulder the increases from the current surcharge rate of Bt50 for six months.Prajit has assigned Deputy Transport Minister Arkom Termpitayapaisit and Deputy Permanent Secretary for Transport Ministry Pongchai Kasemthaweesak to work out with the Airports of Thailand as to how the surcharge rates for ordinary and van taxis should be increased.The panel headed by Arkom proposed that the surcharge for ordinary taxis should be increased to Bt75 and van taxis to Bt95.Nitinai Sirismatthakarn, president of the Airports of Thailand, said he has not received the official conclusion of the panel but he has been informed by Prajin that the new surcharge rates would be Bt60 and Bt80 for ordinary and van taxis respectively.Nitinai said Prajin told him to have the Airports of Thailand shoulder the Bt10 and Bt30 increases for six months but he replied that the issue would have to be first submitted for an approval from the shareholders of the public company in line with the rules of the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
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Trang:- Representatives of tourism business operators in the southern province of Trang Monday called on the provincial governor to overrule the order of Trang marine park chief to close five tourist-destination spots in the Trang sea for four months.Some 50 representatives were led by Prateep Jongthong, president of the Trang Tourism Business Association, Banchong Naruepornmethi, president of the Tourism and Hotel Business Association, and Somchai Jianaisilp, president of the Tourism and Travel Industry Association. They met Trang Governor Somsak Hemthanon at the provincial hall to ask for leniency over the sea closure order.The order was made by Manote Wongsureerat, chief of the Haad Chao Mai Marine Park. Manote was also present during the meeting.Manote ordered the closure of the Morakot Cave, Koh Kradan, Koh Chueak, Koh Waen and Koh Mook from June 1 to September 30 during the monsoon season. He reasoned that the sea would be rough and it would be dangerous for tourists to visit the five destinations during the period. Manote also reasoned that the nature would need the four-month period for rehabilitation.The representatives told the governor that the closure caused a lot of trouble to them because most tourists canceled their trips to Trang since June 1 because Trang's main selling point is the sea.The representatives asked the provincial governor to at least reopen Koh Chueak and the Morakot Cave to tourists because the area have no corals that need to be rehabilitated.The tourism operators promised to strictly complied to the orders and announcements of the park officials regarding to the rough sea and rising sea tides for the safety of tourists.The governor replied that he has no authority to overrule the park's order. He promised to pass on the request to the National parks Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department for consideration.
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Chiang Rai:- An Indian tourist was arrested after he was assaulted by several vendors in Mueang Chiang Rai district late Saturday night. The vendors claimed that the Indian man tried to buy their goods with Bt500 banknotes.Pol Lt Gen Worayuth Kanthasorn, an inspector on duty of Mueang Chiang Rai police station, was informed of the assault of the tourist at 10 pm Saturday. He was informed that a foreign tourist was being attacked by vendors on the walking street in Chiang Rai downtown.He dispatched a team of police officers to the scene and found that the tourist, who was later identified only as Suress, 40, had been badly injured and suffered head injuries. He was surrounded by vendors who kept on cursing him.The vendor claimed the Indian had earlier been seen using fake Bt500 notes to buy goods from several shops on the walking street.The vendors claimed that the Indian had used fake notes several time earlier so the cheated vendors posted on Facebook to warn other vendors. They described the look of the tourist on their posts so when the Indian appeared came to the walking street Saturday night, he was recognized.The vendors said the Indian tried to run away and he discarded some 30 fake Bank notes on the roadside before he was captured by the vendors who beat him up.Suress, who could not speak Thai, denied the charges. Police suspect that he has other accomplices because many fake Bt500 notes have been detected in the Mae Sai border market.
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Phetchaburi:- A Thai driver, three Hong Kong tourists and four other Hong Kong tourists were injured when their van overturned and fell into the ditch in the middle of a bypass road in Phetchaburi's Cha-am district Sunday evening, police said.Pol Lt Sayoomphu Sitthikul, an officer on duty of Cha-am police station, was informed of the accident at 5:05 pm. He was told that a van overturned and fell into the ditch in the middle of the outbound Cha-am-Pranburi Road in Tambon Cha-am of Cha-am district.He rushed to the scene with rescuers of the Sawang Sanphet Phetchaburi Foundation and Sirin Cha-am Foundation of the Cha-am Highway office.[Photo credit: Thairath Online]The officials found a Toyota Commuter with Bangkok license plate overturned and badly damaged at the spot.Four bodies were trapped in the van. Two of the bodies were identified as Flight Lieutenant Arthit Chalerm-at, the driver, and Au Wing Yan, 32, a female Hong Kong tourist. Two other bodies could not be identified because they were not carrying any identification card. One of them was a woman, who appeared about 50 years old and another a man about 30 years old.The officials found three other Hong Kong tourists injured and also trapped in the van. They were identified as Cheng Tsz Zok, a four-year-old boy, An Woy Yank, 31, a woman, and Cheng Yank Chuen, 37, a man.Officials had to use iron cutters to free the injured from the van. The operation took about an hour before the injured tourists could be rushed to the Cha-am hospital.Officials have yet to establish the cause of the accident.
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Phuket:- A 33-year-old South African man was arrested Saturday for having filed false complain with police that he had been robbed of his valuables. He later admitted he hoped to use the complaint form to claim for insurance compensation in his country.Laurie Viljoen Botha was arrested by tourist police at his hotel room at the Sino Imperial Hotel in Phuket’s Mueang district not long after he filed the false complaint with the tourist police.Pol Captain Ekkachai Siri, deputy investigation inspector of Phuket Tourist Police, said Botha filed the complaint at 12:55 pm that he had been robbed and the robber made off with several items of valuables.Police then rushed to the scene to check feeds from all security cameras in the area but they did not see anyone robbing Botha as claimed.Police also found that there were several discrepancies in Botha story. As a result, he was taken for interrogation and he eventually admitted that he made up the story, hoping to claim for insurance in South Africa.He was handed over to the Mueang Phuket police station for taking legal action for having violated Article 137 of the Criminal Code.It was not the first case of a foreign tourist trying to file false compliant with police to get a complaint form to claim for insurance compensation.In February, a 19-year-old Australian man filed complaint with police in Phuket that he was robbed at knife point of Bt389,500 valuables while walking alone on the Kata Beach. But police checked security camera feeds in Karon and found out that he was riding motorcycle around Karon area at the time he claimed he was robbed.
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Bangkok:- An Iraqi man was arrested at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport Saturday morning for using a fake passport with fake exit and entry visa stamps.Immigration Police Division 2 Commander Pol Maj Gen Suwitphol Imjairat held a press conference at 12:30 pm Saturday to announce the arrest of Saif Hussein Ali Anbagi.Suwitphol said Anbagi was arrested at 8 am at an exit immigration counter of the Suvarnabhumi airport while he tried to clear the immigration process to board his Qatar Airways Flight QR831.Suwitphol said immigration officer used a VSC6000 passport checking machine to scan the passport and found that the visa stamps that showed he had exited the country and had re-entered at the Klongduan immigration office in Satun were fake.The officer used the machine to scan the passport and found that its lines and patterns were not as sharp as real Iraqi passports.So, police checked his name and did not find any record that Anbagi had entered Thailand.As a result, Anbagi was charged with using a fake passport with fake visa stamps. He was also charged with having sneaked into the country illegally.Suwitphol said Anbagi denied the charges but he failed to clarify how he had entered the kingdom. He was handed over to the Suvarnabhumi police station for taking legal action.In March this year, the Department of Special Investigation arrested an Iranian man in Chon Buri and seized over 1,000 stolen passports. He was charged with a member of a passport forging gang to smuggle foreigners to third countries.
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Chiang Mai:- Manager Online and some other Thai news websites cried foul and published a photo of a western woman in bikini bathing at the canal in the heart of Chiang Mai, saying she has acted improperly.However, instead of inciting online outrage against her, most Thai Facebook users poured support to her with “so what” comments. Several noted that several Thai women were dressed in much more obscene dress when they played water splashing in the Chiang Mai canal during the Songkran celebration.“Speechless! Young farang woman dressed in bikini baths in Chiang Mai canal,” the headline of Manager screams.[Photo credit: Manager Online]Manager reported that Chiang Mai residents became speechless to see a western tourist bathing on the bank of the canal along Manee Nopparat Road near the Lok Mori Temple, seemingly without a care in the world.The news website further said the woman apparently did not understand the good culture of Chiang Mai people so saw no problem in wearing a bikini in a public place.Many Facebook users reacted by saying that there was no sign that says swimming in the canal was prohibited.“Excuse me, she was dressed more politely than Thai women during the Songkran festival. Her dress was not sexually provocative and did not look obscene like our own people. This kind of news should not have been publicized because it shows that our own people are hypocrites,” a Facebook user, who goes by the name of Nuther Hunheyin said in Thai.“It's just a canal, for God sake!” another comment said.Another Facebook user said children in the area swam naked everyday and some teenage couples even had sex in the canal during the Songkran festival.
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Photo Credit: khaosod.co.th/Bangkok:- A Thai man and two Thai women have been arrested for robbing a Nigerian man of cash and valuables worth some Bt130,000.The three suspects were arrested early Friday, Pol Maj Gen Nipon Charoenphol, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, told a press conference at the Bang Na police station.Nipon said Chananthida Khampae, 21, was arrested at the Seven Days restaurant on Srin Nakharind Road and Panida Booncharoen, 19, was arrested in front of the restaurant at about 1 am Friday. The two later led police to arrest the third suspect, Sarut Phawasupanon, 32, at his houuse in Mueang Samut Prakan district. Chananthida is Sarut's girlfriend.The arrest was made after Obiora Vincen Izegbu, 36, a Nigerian, filed a complaint with the Bang Na police station at 1 pm Thursday that he had been robbed by a taxi driver and two women early in the day.The Nigerian man told police that he hired a taxi to send him to Ramkhamhaeng area Wednesday evening to meet his friend to receive cash of from selling sea foods. He said the taxi driver then recommended him to eat and drink at the Seven Day restaurant.The Nigerian man said two Thai women then came to sit and drink with him. After he got drunk, the taxi driver took the three to an Isaan food shop and they ate there until 5 am Thursday.He said he was completely drunk and the taxi driver and the two women took him to Soi Chalermphakiart 2 where he was robbed out of Bt80,000 in cash, a gold necklace worth Bt45,000, a gold locket worth Bt22,000 and two smart phones.Police later learned the identities of the two women, who admitted that they collaborated with Sarut to rob the Nigerian.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- A French resident in Pattaya was electrocuted and killed while he was trying to fix a water pump in his house Thursday night, police said.Pol Lt Col Techid Kulkanit, an officer on duty of Nongplua police station in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district, was informed of the accident at 10 pm. Techind was told that a foreigner was accidentally killed by an electrical short-circuit inside a house of the European-Thai House housing estate in Tambon Nongplua in the district.Techid rushed to the scene with a doctor on duty and officials of the Sawang Boribun Thammasathan Pattaya Foundation.They found the body of Francois Marie Michel Poncet, 44, in the one-storey twin house lying on his back inside the water pump room. His left hand was burned by the short-circuit.His Laotian wife, Kilame Souvannaphaphasy, 27 who is pregnant, was sitting and crying beside the body when the officials arrived at the scene.Poncet owned the Port South Corporation which runs tourism business in Pattaya.The wife told police that her husband was about to take shower when he found that there was no water so he went to check the water pump.The wife said when Poncet did not return into the house after a while, she went out to check and found that he was lying unconscious in the pump room. She called for help from a neighbor who found that her husband had already died.The body was sent for an autopsy at the Bang Lamung Hospital.
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Chon Buri:- A Thai gay man working at a Pattaya coffee shop was deceived to wire Bt32,000 to help secure release of his dream farang man who claimed to have been arrested by immigration officers on his way to marry him.Jetrin Boonmarong, 21, from Sukhothai's Muaeng district, filed the complaint with the Pattaya police station at 1 pm Thurday.Jetrin, who works as a cashier at the P.M. Coffee Shop in South Pattaya, said he applied for a membership of an online dating website for gay men on May 10.He then met a contact who claimed to be a businessman with the name of Richard Edward, 32. Jetrin said the person, who claimed to be Edward, showed his handsome picture in well-dressed clothes to him.Jetrin said he had been in online relationship with the man until Edward claimed he would come to meet him at Pattaya and would bring money to invest in a gay bar in Pattaya.The Thai man said he received a phone call from Edward at 11 am on Wednesday, saying he had arrived at the Phuket International Airport but he was stopped by immigration police.Jetrin said he was told that Edward brought in US$300,000 in cash and he was fined Bt75,000. Jetrin was told that Edward had paid Bt50,000 fine and was short of Bt25,000 cash.Edward then had Jetrin talk to a Thai woman, who claimed to be an immigration officer. The woman confirmed that Edward had been arrested and told Jetrin to transfer Bt25,000 to her Kasikorn bank account in the name of Wanpen Samiphet.Jetrin said he wired Bt25,000 to the account and then the woman called again, saying he had to pay the operation fee of Bt7,000 as well.Jetrin said he wired the money immediately, hoping to meet Edward soon.But after he transferred the money, he has never been contacted by the farang again so he realized he was deceived.
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Photo Credit: www.dailynews.co.thBangkok:- Over 100 policemen raided a popular pub on Soi Thonglor in Bangkok's Vatana district early Thursday following complaints that it repeatedly violated the two-am closing time.The raid at the Liberty Pub on the second floor of the Liberty building was made at 2.15 am and it was led by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Pol Lt Gen Sriwarah Rangipramkul himself.He led several senior officers from his bureau as well as officers from the Narcotics Suppression Division to make the raid.Police found over 100 pub-goers, including foreigners, still dancing and drinking. The officers stopped the music and turned the lights on and rounded up the party goers for drug test. Five, including two staffs of the pub, tested positive to drug use. They were arrested for abusing drug.Two managers of the pub, Sombat Lanwong, 45, and Bamrung Pluemjit, 49, were arrested after police found that the pub was operated without a license.Sriwarah told reporters after the raid that his bureau had received complaints that the pub violated closing time for over a month. He indicated that commander of the Thonglor police station and four other senior officers of the station would be transferred because of the raid.At the same time, a group of police officers raided the Safe House pub on Ekamai Road after it was found violating the closing time. Police found some 50 pub goers but none tested positive to drug use.Its manager was arrested for violating the closing time and running the pub without entertainment venue license.
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Bangkok:- Two South Korean men were arrested at a Bangkok condominium Wednesday evening for having allegedly run an online gambling website here for at least six months.Park Changhyeong and Choi Mingoo were arrested at 5:30 pm at their rented room on the 12th floor of a luxurious condominium on Phetchaburi Road in Bangkok's Huay Kwang district.The arrest was led by Patrol and Special Operation Police Divison Commander Pol Maj Gen Phanurat Lakboon. The team was backed up by officers from the Makkasan police station.The two were found allegedly receiving bets in front of their computer screens. Police seized five desktop computers, six mobile phones and two passports from the suspects.Phanurat said police have received tips-off that some South Korean men were operating online gambling in Bangkok so police checked information from websites and learned the location of the online gambling site run by the two.Phanurat quoted the two suspects as admitting that they have been operating the website from their condo room for over six months. They said their customers are all living in South Korea. They selected Bangkok for running the site because Thailand's penalties are much lighter than South Korea's.It was the third arrest of South Korean men for operating gambling websites in Bangkok within one month.On Monday, three South Korean men were arrested at a condo room on Soi Sukhumvit 69 in Vatana district for allegedly running an online slot machine website for six months.On May 22, seven South Korean men were arrested at a room on the 19th floor of the Belle Grand Rama 9 condominium for running a gambling website for over three years.
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Bangkok:- The Empower Foundation, an organization in Thailand helping underprivileged women, has called on Thai police to investigate whether three development squads of the Leicester City Football Club had sex with three under-age Thai women.The foundation said it appeared in the clips that the women might be under 18 years old, which would render the sex act illegal.The three players have made headlines by taking video clips of themselves having an orgy sex with three Thai women during with they called the women with racist term.Chanwipha Apisuk, a co-founder of the foundation, said police must probe the age of the women in the clips.She said several women's groups in Thailand were dissatisfied that the three footballers had treated with Thai women with such insult.However the call for age probe of the three women met with strong disagreement with many Thai Facebook users. Many said the women clearly appeared they are over 18. Many voiced concern that the issue should be put to rest or else the three women themselves would be further hurt.A Facebook user noted that instead of taking legal actions against the three footballers, actions should be instead taken against the providers of the three women to them.He also called on investigations against massage parlors that have been openly operating in many parts of the country.A Facebook user claimed that the three women came from a shop on the walking street in Pattaya.Another Facebook user, who uses the name that Saitharn Kesornthon, said the three women were simply making their living so no more probe should be made.
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Bangkok:- An Irish man and his daughter and son staged a sit-in protest in front of the Royal Thai Police headquarters at 12:30 pm Tuesday, claiming he had been cheated out of his house and land plots in Phuket worth Bt65 million.The man, Colin Vard, 61, wanted to meet the national police chief, Pol Gen Somyot Pumpanmuang, to file his complaint.The protest caused traffic congestion in front of the Royal Thai Police because police had to close one lane of the road where Vard and his children were sitting. But after a negotiation with two senior police officers for half an hour, Vard agreed to come inside the police head quarters to file the complaint.Vard said he used to own the Phuket Property Development in Mueang Phuket, which operated since 2001 until he was cheated in a conspiracy allegedly by police, land officials, lawyers, bankers and property brokers. He alleged the collaborators falsified land ownership documents to transfer his house and seven plots of land worth Bt65 million to them.Vard said he was later forced out of his house and land by a court order in June 2010 because of the falsified documents.He alleged that his ex-wife Nittaya Sukhampha was forced to join the defrauding because she owed a debt of Bt600,000 to a loan shark gang.Vard claimed his lawyer in Phuket was bought by the gang and when he hired a lawyer from Bangkok, the lawyer was also hired to lose the cases again, he alleged.Somyot later came out to meet Vard for about half an hour and the police chief promised to look into the complaint and give him fair investigation. Somyot said some cases have apparently ruled by court.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- A two-deck ferry between Koh Lan and Pattaya caught fire in the Pattaya sea Monday afternoon, a day after a passenger boat sank near the island. All 102 Chinese tourists on the ferry were safely evacuated by speed boats.Sanit Boonmachai, a member of the Pattaya City Council, said the accident happened shortly before 3:30 pm when he was alerted of it.[Photo credit: Manager Online]He was told that the Rung-aroon 2 boat caught fire at its engine room while the boat was midway to Pattaya after it received 102 Chinese tourists from Koh Lan. Sanit then alerted the Sawang Boribun Pattaya Foundation and operators of speed boats to rush to rescue the tourists.About 15 speed boats rescued the tourists and delivered them to the Pattya pier. Fire fighters managed to put out the fire shortly after the tourists were evacuated.Sutthipong Boonmachay, an official of the foundation, said the fire was apparently caused by the overheating of the boat's exhaust pipe at the engine room. He said police have yet to investigate the cause of the fire. Police will also interrogate the skipper, Somyot Chalalai, 47.On Sunday, a passenger boat sank shortly after it left Koh Lan for Pattaya with 82 passengers, who were rescued by two passenger boats. The boat sank slowly after water gushed into its bottom.The Harbor Department's Pattaya office ordered the salvation of the sunk boat to check the cause of the accident so that the office would come up with safety measures to prevent similar incidents.
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Chiang Mai:- Chiang Mai police Monday helped a Malaysian mother locate her runaway daughter who left Malaysia since the middle of last month.The mother and her elder sister, Yap Lai Kuen, 21, filed a complaint with Mae Ping station inspector Pol Maj Chalermpol Kaewwong to locate Yap Lai Khei.Lai Kuen told Chalermpol that her sister left Malaysia since the middle of last month and she could not be contacted since then.Lai Kuen said her sister only gave a bank account of a Thai man for her mother to transfer money to and posted photos on the Facebook wall to tell the family that she was fine. Lai Kuen said her mother had transferred over Bt1 million to her sister to the bank account.Lai Kuen said she and her mother had been tracking Lai Khei since the southern province of Satun by using her Facebook photos. The latest photos showed that she had come to Chiang Mai.Chalermpol then sought help from Facebook representative office in Thailand and found out that she was staying at a hotel near the Tha Pae gate in Chiang Mai downtown. The mother and sister were overjoyed by the news.Then, police took the mother and sister to meet Lai Khei at the hotel. Lai Khei told police and her family that she was staying with her boyfriend and she was not forced to live with him.Police then let the mother and the runaway daughter talk for a while. Later, Lai Kuen told police that the family decided to return to Malaysia Monday and she thanked Thai police for helping locate her sister.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- A passenger boat sank shortly after it left Koh Lan heading back to the Pattaya shore Sunday evening, police said. All of its 82 passengers were safely rescued by two other passenger boats.Pattaya police chief Pol Col Sukthat Pumpanmuang was alerted that a passenger boat was sinking in the sea off Thonglang beach of Koh Lan. He dispatched police officers to inspect the accident and they found the Phet Thara 7 boat gradually sinking and all 82 passengers, who are officials from the Buri Ram Court, had been evacuated to two other passenger boats.[Photo credit: Khaosod Online]Khamtan Thungthaisong, 47, the boat skipper, said he had received the group of passengers from Tawaen beach to take them back to Pattaya but when the boat sailed past the Thonglang beach, water gushed into the boat's bottom.As a result, he sent out an SOS for boats nearby to evacuate the passengers while his boat gradually sank. He said he did not know what caused the water to leak into the boat.Later on, Rewat Phoriang, the director of the Harbor Region 6 Office, which is in charge of Pattaya, ordered the owner of the boat to salvage it to find out what caused the accident.Rewat said the boat might hit a rock, causing a hole in its hull, or its water pump might malfunction.He praised the boat skipper for sending SOS signal in time for safe evacuation of passengers.The Phet Thara company has changed its name from Koh Lan Travel after one of its boat sank in the Pattaya Sea, a source said.
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Nong Khai:- Two South Korean men were arrested in the northeastern province of Nong Khai Saturday evening when police found 50 refurbished smartphones in their bags, which they declined to declare at the Mueang Nong Khai border checkpoint.Chunsic Jeong, 40 and Jongpil Kim, 41, were arrested by Nong Khai immigraiton officers on charge of smuggling controlled goods without properly declaring them to customs officials.The two were brought to an interrogation room of the Nong Khai Immigration office at 7:30pm. They were interrogated by Pol Maj Gen Chartchai Iamsaeng, commander of the Immigration Police Division 4 and Pol Col Pallop Suriyakul, commander of the Nong Khai Immigration Office.Presented along the suspects in the interrogation room were 30 used Samsung Note 2 phones and 20 used iPhone 5 phones. The seized used smartphones with accessories were worth about Bt700,000.The two were arrested on the Vangvieng-Udon Thani bus when it passed the border checkpoint at the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge.When passengers on the bus were asked to get down the bus to pass through the immigration counters at the checkpoint, officials checked the bus and found two bags hidden under two seats. After the two South Koreans returned to their seats, police asked them to open the bags and found the smuggled phones.The two told police that they are phone repairing technician and they bought the used phones from their friend who has a shop in Vientiane. They said they planned to deliver the phones to a customer in Malaysia.They admitted that they declined to declare the phones for fear of being arrested. They were handed over to the Mueang Nong Khai police station for prosecution.
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