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Photo Credit: Talay Hua HinHua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan:- A Thai couple have been arrested for stealing from houses of foreigners in Hua Hin during the past six months, police said.Police paraded Thawalchai Thawilsuk, 37, and Surintha Khumsup, 31, at a press conference at the Hua Hin police station.Over 100 stolen items were displayed at the press conference where over some 10 farang also attended to check their valuables. The items included iPad tablets, notebook computers, mobile phones, watches, cameras, passports, handbags, brand name bags, gold necklaces, amulets, gold rings and several others.Hua Hin police chief Pol Col Chaiyakorn Sriladecho said the two were arrested at a rented room on Soi Hua Hin 45/1 in the downtown.The farang residents of Hua Hin checked the items and several found their stolen valuables. Some said their items have been mortgaged to pawnshops.Chaiyakorn told the press conference that the two had been riding a motorcycle to housing estates where foreigners are living and broke into houses when the residents were absent.Chaiyakorn said the two broke into the houses both in the daytime and nighthime. They often sold the stolen items outside Hua Hin and used the money to buy drugs and visit entertainment venues.Chaiyakorn said the Hua Hin police station has received complaints for over 30 farang residents that their houses have been broken into their valuables were stolen so police conducted an investigation and learned the identities of the two thieves.The Hua Hin police chief said the woman used to work in a beer bar and had a farang boyfriend and she once lived abroad before she returned to Hua Hin after breaking up with her boyfriend.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- An unidentified farang man was found drowned at the Pattaya beach late Friday night.Pol Lt Temtrong Rodsiri, an officer on duty of Pattaya police station, was informed of the incident at 0:10 am Saturday shortly after the body was found on the beach in front of Soi 12 on Pattaya Beach Road in Tambon Nong Plua of Bang Lamung district.She rushed to the scene with officials from the Sawang Boribun Thammasathan Pattaya.At the scene, they found several onlookers so they cordoned off the area and inspected the body.The tourist appeared like a Caucasian and appeared to be about 40 to 50 years old. He was wearing black long-sleeve shirt and sport trousers.Police found bruises on his chest and body and arms and his neck had a wound covered with a plaster. His right eyebrow had a blood trace and his right eye was bruised. However, a doctor said the bruises on his body appeared to have been inflicted long earlier.The doctor believes the man died about three hours before the officials inspected his body.He was not carrying any identification document. A cash of Bt50 was found on his body.No one saw what happened. Witnesses said they just spotted the body that was apparently washed ashore.The body was sent to the Bang Lamung Hospital for an autopsy.Some witnesses told police that they heard some shouts from the direction of the floating buoys that mark the swimming zone about three hours later but no one paid attention to the sounds. The buoys, which are made like a floating walkway, are about 50 meters away from the scene.
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Surat Thani:- A 18-year-old vocational school student and two men have been arrested in connection to the shooting and injuring of a 64-year-old Australian man last week.The student, whose name was withheld because he is 18 years old, admitted that he shot Edward Leslie Woodward in Mueang Surat Thani on May 21.Police took the student to enact the alleged crime in front of the Nomhok shop on the Chon Kasem in Tambon Talad at 11:30 am Friday.The student said he agreed to take the job of the gunman because he owed a debt of gratitude to the one who hired him.The student of a well-known vocational school in Surat Thani told police that he was told only to kill a man who was driving a Toyota Vios with Surat Thani license plate of Koryor-6518.He said he spotted the car and he opened fire at the driver immediately. When he was about to fire for the second time to finish off his target, he realized that his target is a foreigner. He was startled and sped off on his motorcycle.The Australian was hit at his arms and was rushed to a hospital where he was saved.The student said he turned himself to police after learning that an arrest warrant has been issued against him.Surat Thani police chief Pol Maj Gen Apichart Boonsriroj said two other suspects have been arrested. They were identified as Wannachai Mengchuay, 48, and Jiradet Paksong, 43.Apichart said Wannachai and Jiradet denied that they were involved with the murder attempt.Apichart said the assassination attempt was motivated by jealousy and an affair. The provincial police chief did not elaborate.A source from the provincial police office said the Australian man lives with his Thai girlfriend in Mueag Surat district but he also has long-term affair with a caddy girl, who is married to a Thai man. The Australian man is known to have been giving monthly allowance to the caddy, whom police will soon interrogate, the source added.
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Bangkok:- She may regard it as a white lie made just to have fun with a close group of friends. But the Facebook post that she removed five minutes later has landed her in a serious legal trouble and caused her to be bashed with social media outrage.Daoruang Khansorn, 27, surrendered to Chokchai police station chief Pol Col Chairop Junnawat on Thursday, a day after she put the controversial post on the wall of her Facebook account, Nuu Title Tle.The post was deleted five minutes later but not before the Rao Rak Dan Tamrual Facebook page has captured the picture of the post and put it on its wall. This time her infamous post seemed to stay forever, inviting so many scornful comments against her.Daoruang posted that she has been tested to have 90 per cent milligram of blood alcohol level, which is much higher than the legal limit. She said in the post that she was lucky to have a good backing so she could walk beautifully out of the trouble instead of having to go to jail because she has good backing.But in the post, she posted a picture of a traffic ticket, showing that she drove without a driving license.After the Rao Rak Dan Tamruaj or We Love Police Checkpoints posted the screen captured photo of her post, it was widely shared. Many Facebook users attacked her of being stupid and of causing trouble to the traffic police officer who issued the ticket.Then, the Chokchai police station cried foul, saying she did not drink when she was stopped for driving without license. After the infamous post became the talk of the town on online networks, the Nuu Title Tle page was closed police said.Chairop said the woman was charged with violating the Computer Crime Act with the maximum penalty of five years in jail and/or Bt100,000 fine. She has been released on bail.
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Kanchanaburi:- Words widely spread that a 19-year-old British tourist has been raped in Mueang Kanchanaburi district, Khaosod Online reported.
Khaosod said the report of the rape could not be officially confirmed but a meeting of senior police officers took place at the Kanchanaburi Police head office at 11:30 am Thursday.
The meeting was called by Pol Lt Gen Wirapong Chuenphakdee, commissioner of the Provincial Police Bureau 7 which is in charge of Kanchanaburi.
Kachanaburi police chief Pol Maj Gen Kamolsanti Klunbutr, Mueang Kanchanaburi police chief Pol Col Phisut Sukrasorn and Thamuang police chief Pol Col Anansit Promsantichon and several other officers attended the meeting.
Wirapong said he held the meeting to instruct Kanchanaburi police to step up crackdowns on crimes in the popular tourist-destination province.
Khaosod said words have spread among local residents that a British teenage girl, who visited the province with a group of tourists and stayed at a well-known resort, had been raped.
Khaosod said the group had dinner at a restaurant on the Nanachart Road Monday night and they became drunk.
The teenager that walked in front of the shop alone at 1:30 am Tuesday and a group of motorcyclists spotted her and picked her up and left the scene, Khao Sod said.
Khaosod quoted a source as saying that the motorcyclists later left the girl at a market in Mueang district after they had raped her and robbed her of some valuables.
The source said the teenager had filed a complaint with police and police are checking feeds from security cameras on the Nanachart Road.
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Bangkok:- Chinese tourists have elevated their status to quality tourists with the highest average daily spending in Thailand in the first quarter of this year, Tourism Minister Korbkarn Wattanavrangkul said.Korbkarn said each Chinese tourist averagely spent Bt6,346 per day during the stay in Thailand. The minister said the median of average daily spending of tourists from countries in the first quarter was Bt4,950.She added that Singapore tourists came second with an average daily spending of Bt6,284 per day, followed by Malaysians of Bt6,020, Indians Bt5,952 and Australians Bt5,842.“Thailand is a top choice of destinations of Chinese tourists and they came with purchasing power, generating a lot of income for Thais,” Korbkarn said.“From January to April, they generated income of Bt122.71 billion of income for Thailand, which was an increase of 110 per cent from the same period of last year.”She said about 2.69 Chinese tourists visited Thailand in the first quarter and 1.2 million of them or more than two fifths came with tourism companies.The minister said people in the North of Thailand have already changed their attitude towards Chinese tourists because they like to shop. “Local residents also advised the Chinese tourists what can be done and what should be avoided,” Korbkarn added.The minister added that some 11.95 million foreign tourists visited Thailand from January 1 to May 25, generating income of Bt578.94 billion for the country.Korbkarn said it is expected that some 28.5 million foreign tourists will visit the kingdom this year and they could generate some Bt1.4 trillion of income for the country.
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Photo credit: Dailynews.co.thPhuket:- A Kuwaiti tourist was killed in a bungee jump accident at the popular Patong beach in Phuket Wednesday evening, police said.Pol Maj Thirasak Boonsaeng, an officer on duty of Krathu district police station, was alerted by officials of the intensive care unit of Patong Hospital that a foreign tourist had been fatally injured in an accident.Initially, Thairath Online reported that the tourist was a Ukrainian citizen but Khaosod Online reported he was a Kuwaiti.Thirasak was informed that Abdullah Adel Kadhmbahman, 25, was injured in a fall from a bungee jump on the Patong beach.Thirasak informed Patong police chief Pol Col Chaiwat Uikham who rushed to the hospital with a team of policemen.Police found the body of Kadhmbahman, who was wearing only black shorts, on a bed. Doctors had performed an x-ray and found that he suffered broken neck and broken right lib.A hospital official said a pick-up truck delivered the tourist and the driver initially claimed that the tourist fainted and passed out. But the hospital staffs did not believe him and pressed for more clarification before the driver admitted that the tourist fell from a bungee jump. The driver then sped off.Chaiwat then led a team of officers to check the bungee jump machine, which is located on a large field of grass next to a large pool. Officials led police to inspect the spot where the Kuwaiti fell and reporters were not allowed to go into the area.Chaiwat told reporters after inspecting the scene that a link between the rope that tied the legs of the tourist and the elastic cable of the bungee jump broke off while he was falling down, causing his body to fall to the ground.Chaiwat said police will investigate that it was an accident or a case of carelessness.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- Tourist police Tuesday raided two spa and herb products shops in Pattaya for selling soaps made to look like men’s sex organ and arrested two staffs.The tourist police and a special operation unit of the Chon Buri Police raided the D Day spa and herb products shop and Siam Spa Extra Virgin shop following complaints that the two shops have been selling obscene goods to tourists. They complained that one of the shops is located in front of a temple.Police raided the D Day shop in front of Wat Chaimongkol and found 107 penis-like soaps and 38 breast-like soaps. The soaps were openly displayed on shelves in the shop.[Photo credit: Khaosod Onine]The cashier of the shop, Watchara Boonprakorb, 22, was arrested.The second team of police raided the Siam Spa Extra Virgin shop in front of Soi South Pattaya 1. The shop sells herb and spa products like the D Day shop. Police found 11 boxes of soaps made to look like the men’s organ in its storage room. All in all, 1,263 penis-like soaps were seized.Police arrested Tum Wongsaroj, 35, who was taking care of the shop.Pol Maj Piyapong Ensarn, a tourist police inspector who led the raids, said the two shops are owned by the same owner.Piyapong said Chon Buri tourist police had received a lot of complaints that the two shops were selling illegal and obscene goods and one of the shops is located near a temple and a school.Staffs of the two shops were handed over to the Pattaya police station for legal actions for selling obscene products.
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Koh Samet, Rayong:- A 53-year-old Chinese tourist drowned at the Saikaew beach on Koh Samet Tuesday, police said.The Kho Laemya – Koh Samet National Park officials were informed of the accident at 11 am. Nearly at the same time, Pol Maj Wirat Yodsao, an officer on duty of Pe police station in Rayong’s Muean district was also alerted of the accident.The police together with rescuers from Sawang Phon Kuslo Rayong Foundation rushed to the scene.They found that the tourist, Wang Lei, drowned in the sea in front of White Sand Beach Resort. He had no shirt on and he was wearing a black swimming trunk. His body had no traces of any injury.The officials took his body to the Ban Pe pier on the Rayong’s mainland before the body was sent to the Police Hospital’s Forensic Medicine Institute in Bangkok for an autopsy. Police then reported the incident to the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok.A tour guide told police that Wang was in his group of Chinese tourists from Pattaya. He said he let the tourists swim at the Saikaew beach and Wang disappeared under water while officials from the national park were holding a rescue drill nearby. Park officials rushed to retrieve his body and they gave him a CPR but they failed to resuscitate his heart.Sumet Saithong, chief of the park, said Wang came with a group of about 10 tourists, led by a guide of Leading Thai Co Ltd.Sumet said Wang and friends swam after having a meal at the White Sand Restaurant. He said Wang swam far away from the beach and officials warned him to return to the shallow part but he would not listen and further swam away from the beach and eventually drowned.
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CREDIT: MCOTBangkok: Metropolitan police have arrested a Colombian man who allegedly joined a gang of five burglars that has broken into at least seven Bangkok houses, including one of an immigration officer.The arrest of Miguel Antonio Caro Garcia, 51, was announced at the Metropolitan Police head office by Pol Maj Gen Chanthawit Ramasutra, deputy commissioner of the police bureau.Chanthawit said the Metropolitan Police has coordinated with the Immigration Bureau to hunt for four Columbian accomplices of Garcia.He said Garcia was arrested while driving a white Mitsubishi Pajero on Chalong Krung Road in Bangkok’s Lat Krabang district. The SUV was allegedly used by the gang in the burglaries.Also displayed at the press conference were a Seiko watch, a Smith and Wesson Model 686 .357 revolver, a Smith and Wesson .22 pistol and a Smith and Wesson 9mm pistol.Chanthawit said his subordinates planned the arrest after empty safe boxes that have been pried open were found left in remote spot in the Suwanville housing estate on Soi Khumklao 60 in Lat Krabang.Investors anticipated that the thieves are foreigners because they left amulets and pistols found in safe boxes. Police believe the thieves did not know the values of amulets and guns in Thai markets.Police checked feeds from security cameras near the houses that have been broken into and learned the identities of five suspects.Chanthawit sad Garcia has a Thai wife but she was not arrested as she knew nothing about the crimes.He said the gang member rented a house to hide the stolen safe boxes. They drove to housing estates and broke into houses whoses owners were away. They checked it by ringing the door bell of the houses.The victims included Pol Lt Somchai Maneerat, an immigration officer. His house on Soi Ramkhamhaeng 178 in Min Buri district was broken into on December 6 and the gang made off with a safe box with nearly Bt1 million worth of valuables.
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Sing Buri:- A wedding became talk of the town in the central province of Sing Buri Sunday when a 74-year-old Australian made married a 66-year-old Thai woman in an elaborate Thai traditional wedding ceremony.Noel Sunder led a traditional khan mark or dowry procession to the house of Pemikar Mueansri in Tambon Tonpho of Sing Buri’s Mueang district to ask for permission from the woman’s parents to marry his bride.They were married in the rod nam sung ceremony when the parents, relatives and guests poured water on their hands to bless them a happy marriage.[Photo credit: Thairath Online]The ceremony was crowded with friends in their age and many relatives as well as their neighbors.Pemikar said she has met and has been in relation with Sunder for three years. Sunder is a friend of her friend.Pemikar said she could communicate in English to some extent as she used to work as a cook in Cyprus.She likes Sunder because he is lively and funny. He loves her family and is a good man. Most of all, Pemikar said her daughter and grandchildren accept him and do not mind her marrying him.Asked how she felt to be married at this age, Pemikar said she was happy that someone loves her at this age.Her daughter said Pemikar did not want to hold a wedding ceremony because she was shy that she is old but Sunder insisted that she had to be married properly in line with the Thai tradition.The daughter said he is happy to see her mother happily married. The two will live in their newly-built house in Sing Buri.
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Phuket:- A body of an unidentified foreigner who looked like an Arab was found at rocks on a beach near a well-known resort in Tambon Rawai of Chalong district Saturday evening.Pol Lt Weerayut Thansirisukwarakul, an officer on duty of the Chalong police station, was alerted at 8:30 pm about the body.He informed Chalong police chief Pol Col Noppadol Thiraprawat who rushed to the scene with inspector Pol Lt Col Jamroon Playduang and rescuers from the Ruamjai Phuket Fuondation.They found the body of a white man, who looked like an Arab, lying on his back. He had no shirt on. His shorts were lowered to his knees. He was wearing red sports shoes.His head was resting on a black cloth bag. Three t-shirts and two trousers as well as a wallet were found the in the bag. The wallet had Bt325 in cash. No travel document and no identification card were found.The man had apparently soiled himself. There was a sign of bite at his left knee. A liquor bottle and a drinking water bottle, which have not been opened, were found near the body. There was also a trace of vomit.Officials believe the man had died at least six hours earlier.His body was rushed to the Wachaira Phuket Hospital for an autopsy.Investigators of the Chalong police station were dispatched to check the scene and take photos ad make a map of the location.Resorts and hotels nearby were asked to check whether any of their guests had disappeared.
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Udon Thani:- A farang driver was killed Saturday evening when his pickup truck crashed into the rear of a trailer truck in Udon Thani’s Nong Harn district.Pol Lt Krissada Chanon, an office on duty of the Nong Harn police station was informed at 7:30 pm that a fatal accident occurred at the kilometer marker No 20 in Ban Phone-ngarm village in Tambon Phone-ngarm.Krissada rushed to the scene with rescuers from the Methatham Udon Thani and rescuers of Nong Harn highway unit.They found a black Toyota Vigo with an Udon Thani license plate that has crashed into the rear of a trailer truck. Its front was dissolved because of the impact.The officials found a body of the pickup driver, who was a foreigner, trapped behind the wheel. They had to use tools to remove the body.Krissada said the farang was identified only as Edward. His surname and nationality was not known.The trailer truck drive, Somjit Phuehikewa, 46, was waiting for police at the scene.Somjit told police that he was heading to Udon Thani and he stopped his truck on the roadside at the spot to rest.Somjit said the pickup that was speeding behind him crashed into the rear at full speed.Police said further investigation would be carried out to determine the cause of the accident.The body of the farang was sent to the Nong Harn Hospital pending contracts by his relatives. So far, police did not know where he lived, Krissasda added. He urged anyone with information about the killed driver to inform police about his identity.
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CREDIT: www.thairath.co.th/content/500710Kanchanaburi:- The abbot of the Temple of Tigers or Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua in Kanchanaburi’s Saiyok district was badly injured when a tiger he was pulling along pawed his face and bit his right arm.Luang Ta Jan, the abbot, needed to receive an operation that took about four hours to cure his wounds and broken arm.Temple officials said the abbot was pulling along a male tiger, which is about seven or eight years, to walk with him at 1:30 pm when the tiger attacked him.The tiger pawed the abbot’s face, causing a big wound down from his forehead to his mouth. The tiger also bit the abbot’s right arm once and let it go.The tiger seemed to be frightened when the abbot pulled the rope around its neck.He was rushed to the district hospital before he was forwarded to the Thonkarn Hospital.Officials said the tiger, which is called Hern, is among 146 tigers seized by the National parks Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department. The department let the temple take care of the tigers on a condition that the temple must not use the tigers to illegally reap benefit.The department checked the number of the tigers at the temple on April 24 and agreed to allow the temple to continue to care tigers.Earlier, the department planned to relocate all the tigers from the temple to its wild animal shelters in Ratchaburi but the temple protest and blocked the attempt. The temple claimed that all the tigers have been tamed and would not harm the people.
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CREDIT: www.khaosod.co.th/Bangkok:- Police arrested seven South Korean men for having allegedly been running an online gambling website in Bangkok for over three years.The arrest was made at 6 pm Friday when police, armed with a search warrant from the Criminal Court, raided a room on the 19th floor of the Belle Grand Rama 9 condominium.The raid was led by Crime Suppression Division acting commander Pol Col Akkaradej Pimolsri.Police found the seven South Korean men sitting in front of their computers. Five of them were identified as Na Dae Wung, 37, Xin Juyong, 29, Un Bengo, 24, Yun Jaewoo, 40, Han Sunghun, 25. The two others did not carry a passport so they were not identified.Police seized five desktop computers and four notebook computers and some computer accessories.Police have investigated and learned that the alleged gang has been running Play and Ground and SBox 369 gambling sites.Akkaredej said the arrest was a joint operation between the CSD and the investigation division of the Huay Kwang police station.He said an investigation found that a gang of South Korean men rented two rooms at the condominium building to host a computer server for running gambling websites to let gamblers bet on results of sports competitions, such as football, basketball, and baseball.Akkaredej said the gambling sites have been receiving about Bt30 million to Bt90 million a month.The suspects have been renting two rooms, each of Bt60,000 a month, as an office and their living place.He said the suspects have been moving around condominiums in Bangkok for three years to host their gambling server computer and all of their customers are South Koreans.
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Phuket:- A 54-year-old Swiss tourist was found trapped and killed in a narrow space between an elevator and the shaft near a door of a hotel in the Patong area early Friday, police said.No hotel staff knew exactly how Peter Altorfer got his head trapped in the narrow space between the only elevator of the five-storey hotel and the third floor’s door.Pol Maj Thirasak Boonsaeng, an officer on duty of the Krathu district police station, was alerted of the death at 2:20 am. He rushed to the hotel with other police officers and rescuers from the Kusoltham Phuket Foundation.The officials found that the elevator was stuck on the third floor. The tourist’s body was on top of the elevator’s roof and his head was stuck between the elevator and the shaft close to the door of the third floor.Initially, rescuers could not pull out the body. Elevator mechanics had to move down the elevator so that there was enough space for the rescuers to pull the body to the third floor of the hotel.His head had a broken wound. His body was sent to the Patong Hospital for an autopsy.The tourist was staying alone on the fourth floor in the room No 403. Hotel staffs told police that none of them saw what happened.They said a receptionist heard a loud noise from the elevator’s shaft and she rushed to the elevator and found that it was stuck on the third floor with the tourist’s body stuck there too.Police suspected that the elevator might be out of order and the tourist might call it to his fourth floor. When the elevator’s door was opened, he might step into the shaft and fall to the elevator’s roof on the third floor. He might then try to climb down to the third floor’s door but his head got stuck.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:-Police arrested a Russian man and a Briton for having allegedly robbed and extorted a protection fee from a French businessman in Pattaya.Denis Zabodaev, 31, who carries a Russian passport, and Fenrir Pallson Hallan, 45, who carries a British passport, were arrested by immigration police on Thursday.Chon Buri Immigration Police chief Pol Col Praphansak Prasarnsuk held a press conference at 2:30 pm at the Chon Buri Immigration Office shortly after the arrest.Praphansak told the press conference that the arrest was made following a complaint with his office by Laurrent Emanuel Thery, 51, a French businessman.Thery is an exporter of Islamic foods.[Photo credit: Post Today]The French businessman said in the complaint that four foreigners had raided his factory and forced him to give them some valuables and parts of the foods processing machine worth Bt50,000.Thery said the four then forced him to lead them to his room at the Royal Thai Residence. They took more valuables and two Macbook computers worth Bt50,000. Before they fled, they also took his mobile phone.Several days after the robbery, one of the alleged mafia gangsters called him and threatened to harm his family, Thery alleged. He said he had to wire Zabodaev Bt15,000 in a protection fee.The French businessman said his family was frightened so he decided to seek help from the immigration police.Police checked feeds of security cameras at the Royal Thai Residence and learned the identities of the four alleged mafia gangsters. Two of them were arrested and the two other are still elusive.Zabodaev and Hallan faced extortion charges.
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Bangkok:- Tourist police have rounded up 22 alleged scammers for luring foreign tourists from famous tourist destinations in the capital to be overcharged at jewelry shops, restaurants, tailor’s shops and souvenir shops.The arrests were made in sting operations and Police Commissioner General Pol Gen Somyot Pumpanmuang, Police spokesman Pol Lt Gen Prawut Thawornsiri and Tourist Police Commander Pol Maj Gen Apichai Thi-amart held a press conference at the Royal Thai Police headquarters Thursday to announce the arrests.Somyot said the 22 scammers damaged the country’s reputation and caused damage to the tourism industry just for their group’s interest.Somyot said the arrests were made after undercover officers, who look like foreign tourists, were sent to the areas these scammers were preying on tourists.Somyot said the scammers would wait in front of the Grand Palace, the Emerald Buddha Temple and Wat Pho and would pick tourists who were not accompanied by tour guides.The police chief said the scammers deceived tourists that the Grand Palace, the Emerald Buddha Temple or What Pho were closed in the morning because of certain rites and they would try to convince the tourists to visit a jewelry shop instead, for example.Somyot said the deceived tourists later posted their incidents on social network or told TV stations in their countries or filed complaints with the tourist police or even with the Government HousePrawut said the jewelry shops, tailor’s shops and souvenir shops overcharged the tourists and gave up to 30 per cent commissions to these scammers.The spokesman warned these shops to stop the practice or they would also be charged as collaborators with the scammers.
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Pattaya, Chon Buri:- A 76-year-old Russian woman was found drowned at the Jomthien Beach near Pattaya, Chon Buri, Wednesday evening, police said.Pol Lt Col Chalermkiart Sirimark, an officer on duty of Pattaya police station, was alerted of the incident at 6 pm Wednesday. He was told that a foreign tourist drowned at the Jomthien Beach in front of Soi 1 Jomthien Beach in Moo 12 village in Tambon Nong Plua of Bang Lamung district.Chalermkiart rushed to the scene with rescuers from the Sawang Boribun Thammasathan Pattaya Foundation.The officials found the body Nina Bahoma lying on the beach. A forensic doctor checked and did not find any trace of assault on her body.Her sandals, hat and lotion were found in a bag left on the beach. Her friend was crying near the body.An eyewitness, Chit Jaimun, 23, said while he was thronging the beach, he spotted a body floating with face down near the buoy floats to mark swimming zone.At the moment, he saw two tourists, who appeared like a father and a son, rushed to the sea to pull the body back to the beach. They found that the Russian tourist has already died.Police believe the woman might suffer an attack of her chronic aliment or might be hit by a cramp, causing her to drown.Her body will be sent to the Police Hospital’s Institute of Forensic Medicine for an autopsy. And police will inform the Russian Embassy to locate her relatives to claim the body for religious service, Chalermkiart said.
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CREDIT: dailynews.co.th/regional/322254Bangkok:- The host of a popular English-teaching TV program “Chris Delivery” has stirred a hot debate on Thailand’s English teaching when he posted a photo of an English test paper that showed a score of 7 out of 100.Christ Wright posted the photo on his Facebook wall, saying it was a test paper of a student from a famous university in Thailand whose name was not given.He said most students at the university failed the test and got a similar score to the paper he posted.Wright is a half Thai-American whose mother is a Thai. He owns an English school and hosts the English Delivery by Chris program on Channel 5, which is well-known as Chris Delivery.The test paper showed that the students were asked to write English pronunciations of the test vocabularies in Thai and write their translations as well. The paper showed that the student wrote the pronunciation of “island” as “is-land”. He or she failed to write translations of most words. But a correct answer was given for “voucher”.“The students nowadays fail because they just don't give a shit about studying and reading and they know that if most of the class fail, the whole class will still pass to the next course and finally graduate. Why? Coz you can't fail students in this country and make them repeat classes,” Wright said in the post.His post has been shared by 1,110 times and a lot of Thai Facebook users added their comments, criticizing Thai students. None said bad thing about Wright.Most said this student has definitely watched Wright’s English teaching program.Arisara Thanapakij, a famous English tutor at the Enconcept E-Academy tuition school, said it was not surprising to see university students score poorly for English tests because they scored badly in school anyway.
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Bangkok:- A social media storm has bashed a Thai seafood restaurant in Bangkok for charging four Chinese tourist almost Bt10,000 for one meal.Many Thai Facebook users and members of the popular web board Pantip.com condemned the shop on Si Ayutthaya Road for embarrassing Thailand with the apparently overcharged price.The issue came to light after a Pantip member, called GROSS, posted a picture captured from the Facebook wall of one of the four tourists, who is called Connie Ha.GROSS posted it on May 14. The photo of receipt posted by Connie on her wall was dated May 8.By Monday, several news websites started reporting the Pantip.com post and on Tuesday Channel 3 reported the incident. Most news website blurred the business card of the shop but GROSS showed it clearly on his post.Connie posted the incident in Chinese that was translated by several sites and Thai Facebook users as the tourist urged her fellow Chinese people not to go to the shop. She said she did not know the shop but a tuktuk driver encouraged her to try it, saying the foods there were delicious.The receipt showed that the group had to pay Bt8,840 to the shop, including a tip of Bt800 and 17 per cent tax. The items on the receipt included Bt1,800 for a dish of steamed sea bass, Bt1,600 for a dish of fried crabs, and Bt1,750 for a dish of prawns.Many Thai Facebook users cried foul, saying the shop was a “shame” to Thailand. They urged the authorities to investigate and take actions immediately.Several said the shop was notorious for hiring taxis and tuktuk drivers to prey on foreign tourists for it.
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Buri Ram: - A 67-year-old woman told police that she was raped by a young man in her own rice field in broad daylight.The woman, whose name was withheld, has filed complaint with Prayoon Wisetphan, the leader of Tambon Phochai in Buri Ram’s Nong Ki district, that she was raped Monday morning at knife point.The tambon leader led her to file complaint with the Nong Ki police station and its chief, Pol Col Banthit Onsakhon, led some police officers to check the scene Tuesday morning.Police led the woman, who appeared frightened, to point the spot where she was rapped. She led police to the dry pool in the middle of her rice field amid onlookers, who are local residents. Many of them provided her moral support because she is well loved by local residents and she loves to go to temple regularly.Police did not find any evidence apart from traces of car’s tires on the road near the field.The woman told police that while she was cutting weeds to prepare her field for rice growing, a man, who appeared between 25 to 30 years old, arrived in a car. He parked the car about 100 meters away and walked to her.He told her that he came to inspect a field next to hers to check whether he should accept its mortgage or not.The woman agreed to lead the man to check the field but the man pulled out his knife and forced her to go down the dry pool. He forced her to undress herself and perform an oral sex for him before he raped her and fled the scene.The woman could not remember the make and license plate of the car.
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Chon Buri :- A 47-year-old Cambodian mother slashed the throat of her five-year-old son Monday after her husband abandoned her a month ago, police said.The woman was identified as Panla Bon, a construction worker who was also badly injured after she also cut her own throat.Pol Lt Winai Horien, an interrogator of Nong Plua police station, was alerted of the murder and suicide attempt at 4 pm Monday.He rushed to the rented room on Soi 4 in Tambon Nong Plua, Bang Lamung district, with rescuers of Sawang Boribun Thammasathan Pattaya Foundation.The officials found the Cambodian woman severely injured. The rescuers performed a first-aid treatment and rushed her to the Bang Lamung Hospital.Police later found the body of the five-year-old Cambodian boy in the room. His head was nearly cut off.Another Cambodian woman, Chan, 26, told police that she saw Panla, who appeared drunk, walking out of her room with a knife and gesturing that she would slash her wrist. Panla then walked back to her room.Chan then alerted a Thai neighbor who checked and found that Panla had injured herself and killed her son so he called police.Pol Col Pramote Ngarmpradit, chief inspector of the Bang Lamung police station, neighbors told police Panla liked to drink, prompting her husband to leave her. Pramote said the husband returned to Cambodia a month ago.Panla could not testify as her vocal cords were almost cut by the knife. Police will detain her at the hospital and take her to the police station for murder charge after her condition improves, Pramote said.
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Krabi:- Deputy Krabi Governor Narong Woonsiew led officials and troops to check hotels and restaurants at Ao Nang bay Monday to take action against businesses that released wasted water into the sea.The inspection found that several of 14 small hotels that were inspected Monday do not have proper wasted water treatment system. Narong said 14 more hotels and restaurants will be inspected Tuesday.The deputy governor gave them seven days for improving their wasted water treatment system or face fines.The officials checked whether these hotels and restaurants have released wasted water into natural waterways that empty into the sea or not.The inspection found that some hotels and restaurants have proper wasted water treatment system.The inspection was made following complaints by Scandinavian tourists that the sea in Krabi had been polluted by wasted water from business facilities.The tourists have lodged complaints at the Stockholm office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand that they spotted polluted water at the sea and they dared not swim.Wiyada Srirangkul, chief of the Krabi office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, said last week that many Scandinavians have cancelled their trips to Krabi after their friends who have visited the southern seaside province have encountered polluted sea and garbage stench.Also yesterday, Phankham Kittithornkul, mayor of Tambon Ao Nang Administrative Organization, led officials from the Pollution Control Department and the Krabi Provincial Administration to check natural waterways in area.They found that the polluted water from the canals had been washed out by rains into the sea but they still found garbage on the canals’ bed. Phankham said his local administration would dredge all the canals to remove all the garbage and mud.
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