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Buriram: – Lieutenant Sompoj Phetlert, 42, has died of gunshot wound in the head he inflicted on himself following a long period of mental and physical illnesses, police said.Sompoj served at Huai Rat police station before his death.Lieutenant Samret Raksawattana, duty officer and Sompoj’s colleague, went to investigate the incident after receiving a report about the gunfire.At the scene, Samret found a pool of blood and collected a pistol and a bullet case as evidence. The victim was already rushed to the hospital.The attempt to resuscitate the victim was not successful and he died at the hospital.The victim’s wife Phatra Phetlert, 42, told police that she was about to step out of the house to open her shop in the morning when she heard a single gunfire near the bathroom.Phatra went to investigate and found her husband barely alive and lying on the floor with the gun dropped nearby his body.She said she believed the husband had shot himself and that she then alerted the neighbours and relatives to help her taking him to the hospital.She also stated that the incident happened just one day before a doctor’s appointment to check on the progress of mental treatment.The victim had mental illness for years. He used to be admitted for a year-long treatment at a mental facility.Following his hospital discharge, he still had to report for follow-up checks on a regular basis.Recently he was also receiving treatment for muscle weakness.Last month, his superior officer granted him long-term sick leave to enable him to focus and recover from illnesses.But he complained to his wife that he would rather die than live as an invalid.The wife said she tried to nurse and give him hope for full recovery. She said she did not think her husband would have killed himself and left her to raise their two children alone.
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Bangkok: –Bang Mod police are investigating a bank robbery which two thieves, unarmed and not wearing facial masks, fled with Bt420,000 cash after hailing a taxi as getaway vehicle.The incident happened yesterday around 1.30 pm at Thanachart Bank’s Rama 2 (Soi 3) branch office.When police arrived at the scene, they found two bank tellers and a male customer.Mongkol Techachokwiwat, 66, customer and witness, said he was the only bank customer making a 20,000-baht deposit when two men walked into the bank.The two appeared like bank customers. One man dressed in red shirt, black jacket and black pants. Another was in a long-sleeved grey shirt and carrying a blue rucksack.The man in black jacket stood in line with him at the counter number 2 while the other one went to counter number 1, Mongkol said.To the surprise of teller number 1, the man in grey shirt quickly walked around the counter and opened the cash drawer as if he knew how the money was kept at the bank.As he was stuffing the cash into a brown paper bag, he said, “Let me make an advance withdrawal.”The entire robbery took less than a minute. The two calmly walked out.Mongkol and the two tellers said they watched the two waiting in front of the bank before hailing a taxi which happened to pass by.After the two got on the taxi, one of the tellers alerted police.Police said the bank had no security guard. They said they were trying to track down the robbery suspects as CCTV footage fully revealed the facial profiles.
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Bangkok: – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has vowed to punish officials of local and central governments to the fullest extent of the law for involving in the trafficking of Rohingya migrants.Government deputy spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said Prayut issued an additional order aimed at speeding up the investigation into the mass grave at Padang Besar border town in Sadao district, Songkhla.The grave was the burial grounds for Rohingya migrants, believed to be victims of human trafficking who died or killed at a transit camp in the woods while waiting to be smuggled into Malaysia.The case came to light because a Rohingya job broker was kidnapped by a military officer with rank of major who wanted to extort money.The job broker managed to flee and subsequently reported about the kidnap and extortion. He also sounded the alarm on the human trafficking gang preying on Rohingya people.His statement led to the discovery of the mass grave.Police have issued the arrest warrants to the military officer who remains at large.Some 14 police officers in Padang Besar, Satun and Kuan Doan have been transferred to inactive post pending the outcome of the investigation into their alleged involvement in the gang.Some eight local officials have been named suspects in the case.The suspects include Padang Besar vice mayor Prasith Lemlae and village headman Yalee Krem of Baan Taloh.Five of the eight suspects are already in the custody of police. Yalee surrendered himself earlier this week.Prasith and two other suspects remains at large.General Aek Angsananont, deputy commissioner general of police, said police are in the process of uncovering locations used as transit camps for Rohingya.All camps would be uprooted and closed to prevent a repeat of human trafficking along Thai-Malaysian border, he said.Officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said traffickers had relied on Sadao and Satun as new transit points because of the heavy suppression in Ranong.Rohingya migrants from Myanmar would travel by boats to land at remote islands of Tarutao before travelling in small groups to transit camps waiting for job placement in Malaysia.Some who could not get the job would be targeted for ransom demand. If their relatives would not pay ransom, they would be killed in order to save cost of sheltering them.
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Bangkok: – Natthawat Chamwaree, 33, is in the police’s custody facing statutory rape charges for sexually violating eight-year-old and four-year-old girls.The case came to light after the father of the two girls had sought and received legal advice from Paveena Hongsakul Foundation.The foundation intervened and assisted the father to file the complaint at Tha Kham police station on April 29.Based on the complaint, the father is a security guard during the day and works part-time as motor cycle taxi driver in the evening.The father, his two daughters and the rape suspect live in the same apartment building located on Bang Khunthien-Chai Thalae Road, Bang Khunthien district.He said he is the single father after his wife left to live with another man two year ago.At the end of his day shift around 6.00 pm, he would return to cook dinner for his daughters.Before going out to drive motorcycle taxi in the evening, he would ask a neighbour to keep an eye on the girls who would stay and play in their room. He would be back around 9.00 pm to put them to bed.Natthawat, who is a factory worker, would sometimes bring toys and sweets for his daughters, he said.On the night in question, he said he returned home earlier than usual before finding Natthawut.Natthawut said he dropped by to give sweets to the girls. But he suspected something had gone wrong because Natthawut rushed out of the room suspiciously and his daughters appeared very nervous.When he arrived at the room, the younger daughter was lying naked beside the older sister. He said it took him a day to get the full story about sexual violations.He said Natthawut threatened to kill if his daughters told him about the rape.At the foundation’s intervention, the daughters had medical checks to confirm the rape.On May 4, the court approved the warrants to arrest Natthawut and police arrested him yesterday.The suspect admitted to raping the two girls, saying he did it to satisfy his sudden sexual desire when he was left alone with them.
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Chiang Mai:- Residents of a village in Chiang Mai’s Mae Rim district cried foul that a tycoon has been illegally operating a landfill in their neighborhood.Residents of Ban Hong Nok in Tambon Mae Ram filed a complaint with Thairath that the tycoon has been using his own land as a garbage landfill, causing bad smell and affecting the environment.They said the tycoon has been dumping garbage after the Mae Rim Municipality using a connected plot for as a temporary garbage site.The residents of the village said the landfill of the tycoon has not been treated properly and garbage water also seeped into wells of local residents because the landfill is located next to a mountain.They said the area used to have very fresh air and the area has been called a little Switzerland. The good weather prompted many resorts to be built and prompted many foreigners to live in the village.The villagers said the illegal landfill on the private property was investigated by the Department of Special Investigation two years ago but nothing has been done about it so far.A villager, whose name was withheld, told Thairath that the tycoon started dumping garbage on his 100-rai land after the municipality used a plot nearby as a temporary garbage site pending permanent disposal.“The area where the illegal landfill is located is higher than houses and lands of local villagers so polluted waters seeped into wells of local residents,” the source said.He said the Mae Rim police chief and the tambon municipality once checked the landfill and its caretaker promised not bring more garbage to the land but the garbage dumping would not stop.
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Bangkok:- The Bangkok Metropolitan is developing the existing walk paths along Klong Saensaeb into safe bike lanes, BMA city clerk Sanya Chinimitr said.Sanya said the project is aimed at developing 13-kilometer-long bike lanes on both sides of the canal so that Bangkok residents can use the lanes for recreational riding and travelling.Sanya has held a meeting of the Drainage and Sewerage Department, the Traffic and Transport Department, the Public Works Department and representatives of the districts where the bike lanes pass through.Sanya was informed during the meeting that the BMA agencies concerned have surveyed the route to see what need to be done to complete the 13-km bike lanes.Currently, there are two-meter-wide walk paths on the canal’s banks but the paths are not fully connected throughout the route. In the immediate measure, a temporary ways will be built for the missing parts of the paths, Sanya said.Sanya said the paths are mostly used for walking and are sometimes used by cyclists. The city clerk said the BMA and the central government have the policy to develop standard bike lanes along the canal for exercise and recreational bike riding and travelling.He said the bike lanes will be developed from Soi Ramkhamhaeng 67 in Klong Tan district through Wang Thong Lang, Bang Kapi, Saphan Sung, Buengkum, Khan Nayao, and Huay Kwang districts.Sanya said the district offices concerned will improve the landscape along the route to be beautiful and the Public Works will repair the broken parts of the path and build connecting paths so that the entire 13-km lane will be connected.The two lanes will be connected with wooden bridges at some spots and the Traffic and Transport will install the security cameras on the route, Sanya added.
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Bangkok:- A motorcycle-taxi driver in Bangkok has become famous in recent years not for anything related to his rides – but for his English fluency.Dejchart Puangket, 43, looks like any other men at motorcycle-taxi stands until he starts speaking the foreign language. And he is self taught.“I didn’t have the privilege of proper schooling,” he told ASTV Manager, “But that doesn’t prevent me from trying to learn to speak English”.Hailed from the northeastern province of Si Sa Ket, Dejchart came to Bangkok to look for work. He said once in the capital, he often ran into foreigners looking for help with direction.“I wanted to help but I could not. So, I told myself that I must do something to be able to communicate with them. I wouldn’t just say No No No anymore,” he said.Dejchart was a factory worker at the time he bought his first dictionary.“I carried the dictionary with me and read it whenever I had free time,” he said.His friends and colleagues initially taunted him, asking if why he would want to speak English given that he could not even speak standard Thai language clearly.“But I refused to give up,” Dejchart said. He said after some five or six years of self-taught practice, he mustered the courage to speak to foreigners.“From then, I can learn a lot more from practice with native speakers,” Dejchart said, “For example, it know the rain can be called a shower. And a native speaker will tell me that it can be referred to as a drizzle too”.
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Trat:- A 48-year-old Irish tourist was injured when his pickup truck crashed into roadside trees in Trat’s Klong Yai district Monday after he dozed off, police said.The tourist was identified only as Christopher from Ireland, Pol Lt Yodkhom Inkhai, an interrogator of Mairood police station in Klongyai said.Yodkhom was alerted of the accident at 9:30 am Monday. He was informed by Khachornphol Pooltao, 53, a resident of Moo 3 village in Tambon Mairood, that a pickup crashed into trees on the roadside of Sukhumvit Road about 100 meters from the Kilometer Marker No 458. The driver was injured.Yodkhom dispatched police from his station and rescuers from Tambon Mairood Administrative Organization to check the scene.They found a black Mitsubishi pickup with Chon Buri license plate badly damaged. Its hood and top were completely damaged and windshield broken.When police arrived at the scene, the driver had already been rushed to the Klong Yai Hospital.The tourist suffered body and back injuries. He told police that he was driving from Mueang Trat district to Klong Yai ditrict.He said he planned to withdraw money from a bank in Klong Yai and planed to drive to Haad Lek border town and he would visit Cambodia.The tourist admitted that he dozed off while he was driving at fast speed so he lost control of the truck which swayed to the roadside and hit several trees before it stopped at about 50 meters from the road.The tourist said he was saved by the safety bag.Since he did not injure other people and did not damage state property, police did not find any charge against him.
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Bangkok:- Less than two days after a tragic accident in Chiang Mai, another car ploughed into three cyclists on a Bangkok road Monday night, fatally injuring one and badly injuring two others.The unknown motorist fled the scene after the accident shortly before 8:30 pm on the Ram-Indra Road, police said.Pol Lt Col Kobchok Boonchan, an interrogator of Khokkram police station, was alerted of the accident at 8:30 pm.He rushed to the scene in front of the Bangkok Boulevard housing estate in Bangkok’s Khannayao district with rescuers from the Ruam Katanyoo Foundation.When they arrived at the scene, three injured cyclists had been rushed to the Phayathai Navamin Hosptial. Two were identified as Thanyakorn Densirimongkol, 31, and Nikhom Chenpimaik, 36. The other was unidentified.Thanyakorn later died at the hospital.Police found badly-damaged bicycles on the road and sidewalk. About 50 meters away, a black Honda Jazz car with Bangkok license plate was left on the road island. Its front bumper and left side had traces of crash. It was towed to the Khokkram police station.Witnesses told police that the three cyclists were riding on the left lane of the outbound Ram-Indra Road and the car was seen swaying and speeding before it ploughed into the three bikes.The car then hit the road guard rail and turned and stopped on the road island. A young man was seen exiting the car to take a look at the injured and disappeared without helping them.Police will summon the car owner to be questioned.On Sunday, a drunk university student crashed into a group of five cyclists on a Chiang Mai road, killing three and injuring two others.
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Roi Et: - Police are tracking down a 79-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 43-year-old lover in a rage.Roi Et Hospital officials alerted police that a brutally-beaten woman had died yesterday following two-week treatment at the hospital.Based on the police report, a home owner in Suwannaphum district organised a merit making ceremony to bless the new house on April 20.The woman, identified by the name of Pee, got paid 100 baht for helping to wash the dishes at the ceremony.The man, identified by the name of Dong, confronted her and tried to pry the money from her in order to buy drinks. She refused.The woman was related to the man’s wife. And they had an affair too.According to neighbours, Dong often came to sleep with Pee and demanded money from her to finance his drinking habit.He also beat her before and after the tryst.At the ceremony, he went into rage after she would not part with her pay. To the horror of merit makers, he punched and kicked her until she fell down.Then he dragged her by the hair around the merit-making site before stomping on her body.A dozen witnesses said they watched the entire incident and were reluctant to intervene in what they said was domestic violence.After she passed out, he left the scene taking her money.Merit makers at the ceremony subsequently rushed her to the hospital.
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Bangkok: –Metropolitan Police will charge suspect Sirikan Suwanfoo, 28 for killing Sommat Pongpokha, 61, and stealing his car following a tryst on April 11.The case is expected to be transferred to the jurisdiction of Crime Suppression Division to complete the police report because the crimes happened in Bangkok and several provinces.Sommat’s wife Aimon Pongpokhafiled a missing person report on April 20 at Min Buri police station, saying her husband had suspiciously disappeared after he said he would take the April 11 trip to Kanchanaburi.Looking into the disappearance, investigators came across a police report dated April 14 that the body of an unidentified man was uncovered at a roadside in Chachoengsao.The body was partially burned using a car rubber mat to start the fire.Sommat’s relatives later identified his body.Investigators subsequently reclassified the case as a possible murder. They found evidence that Sirikan was the last person seen with the victim.On May 2, police detained Sirikan who was living with her boyfriend in Udon Thani and took her for questioning.In her statement, Sirikan said the victim had died of Viagra overdose, denying the murder charge although admitting to disposing and burning his body and to stealing his car.She said she worked as a nurse at a Lad Phrao hospital when she met the victim through social media.She has presently been working as a caretaker for the elderly.She said she had an affair with the victim. For the April 11 tryst, they met at a love motel on Bangna-Trat Road.The victim took Viagra and had a seizure and died while making love to her.Out of panic, she asked one of the motel’s attendants to help carrying his body to the car before driving out, she said. She told the attendant he passed out and that she was the nurse to take him to the hospital, she added.She drove toward Chachoengsao and found a deserted spot to dispose of his body.Then she drove to UdonThani “to wait for things to cool down”, she said. In the meantime, she bought a fake license plate for 2,000 baht to put on the stolen car.Police said they had evidence to back up the murder charge.
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Chiang Rai:- A Facebook user has lost his job over an unkind remark that suggested he had no regard for three bicyclists killed in a drunk-driving accident.Chiangrai Sintanee Company has terminated its employment of Wissawapol (surname withheld) from May 4 onward in response to his inappropriate verbal expression.Wissawapol started working for the firm a month ago and had not yet passed the probation when the firm received reports of his unkind remark, according to Naewna.“We thank all you for reporting this incident,” the company says in a statement.On May 3, a drunk driver's car ploughed into a group of bicyclists on a Chiang Mai road killing three victims and injuring two others. Just as the accident caused dismay and grief among cyclists, Wissawapol posted a comment on his Facebook. It read, “This is a road. It’s not a place for you to do workout. You should have ridden your bicycles in a school field. Don’t cause traffic jam…You take one full traffic lane. Is your dad the owner of the road? If I had first-class car insurance, I would bring all of you down…”Wissawapol later posted an online comment to offer his apology to all people and particularly bicyclists.“I was ignorant in posting that inappropriate remark. Now, I am deeply sorry and would like to ask for forgiveness,” he said via the post on Monday, "I repent".
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Bangkok:- Cyber attackers have been spreading malwares to extort money from unsuspecting email users, The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has warned its staff.ASTV Manager reported on Sunday that the DSI Bureau of Technology and Cyber Crime has circulated a letter among its staff to warn them about the threat.“The malwares are in attached files. If you open the files, the malwares will enter your computer and hold it hostage. It’s a ransomware,” the letter says, “If you want to access your computer again, you will have to pay about Bt20,000 in Bitcoin for the pass code from the cyber attacker”.According to DSI, the attachments are saved in various file types including .pdf, .xls, .ppt, .txt, .py, .wb2, .jpg, .odb, .dbf, .md, .js, .pl, and .doc. They usually come with an email under eye-catching subjects like “account suspended or locked”. The deceptive email messages also tell recipients to open attached files for details.DSI says email recipients should be cautious about messages they receive.“If you do not know the exact reasons why such suspicious emails have arrived, call the sender for additional information. If you do not know the sender, please delete it to avoid getting malwares,” the DSI advises.The warning has been issued after the DSI’s IT security program has detected dozens of ransomware-containing email messages during the past month.It is called a ransomware because following the attack, victims will be asked to pay the money or “ransom”.
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Bangkok:- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered the Royal Thai Police to regularly set up road checkpoints to crack down on drunk driving following a tragic accident in Chiang Mai.Deputy Government Spokesman Maj Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd said Monday that Prayut ordered police to set up road checkpoints regularly to check blood alcohol level of motorists.The order was given after a university student, who was drunk, crashed her car into a group of five cyclists on a road in Chiang Mai’s Doi Saket district Sunday morning.Sansern said Prayut wanted police to take drastic actions against drunk drivers without leniency.Three cyclists were killed and two others injured. The accident became a hot issue among online social networkers who condemned the drunk driver. Others expressed concern that highways might not be safe for cyclists t ride anymore.Sansern said Prayut also extended his condolences to the families of the killed cyclists.Prayut, who admits that he likes to ride a bicycle and who has told local administrations nationwide to build bike lanes, said motorists should have heart for cyclists.During the road accident monitoring periods for long New Year and Songkran holidays, drunk driving was always the biggest cause of the fatal accidents.In a latest accident caused by drunk driving, an Army conscript was killed along with his wife and a two-year-old boy when his pick-up truck crashed into a roadside power pole in Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district at 8 pm Sunday.His friend told police that the Army private, Prommin Prommuakwa 22, had drank at his house and was driving to drink at the friend’s place.
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Bangkok:- A Maltese man was found dead in a Bangkok hotel Sunday evening. Police suspected that he was killed by heroin overdose.Pol Lt Khom Rodphao, an interrogator of Lumpini police station, was alerted at 7 pm that a foreign tourist died in a room of the Aloft Hotel on Soi Sukhumvit 11 in Bangkok’s Vadhana district.He rushed to the scene with scientific crime detection officials, and a doctor of Chulalongkorn Hospital and rescuers of the Ruam Katanyu Foundation.They found the body Daniel Borge, 34, on the bed in Room No 2306 on the 23rd floor of the hotel. He was lying on his back wearing white undershirt and grey check-pattern shorts. The body was already decomposed.Officials found Viagra pills and 0.5 gram of heroin on a table near the bed. A “no disturb” tag was hung on the doorknob. Police did not find any sign of foul play or assets searching in the room.The officials gathered evidence and sent the body Chulalongkorn Hospital for an autopsy.Suphannee Sarapee, a room maid, told police that Borge checked in at the hotel on April 28. He had a schedule to check out on Sunday.In the evening, the Maltese did not show up at the reception counter so Suphannee was dispatched to check the room.The tourist did not answer the door knock so she used a spare key to open the room to find the body.Police believe the tourist died of heart failure after using heroin. He apparently died two of three days earlier.
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Chiang Mai: –Oy (last name unknown), 50, died yesterday in a fire which started at her home before spreading to burn down other 20 shanty houses located at Chang Klan cemetery, Mueang Chiang Mai district.Police and fire fighters spent more than one hour to put out the fire.When Chiang Mai police station superintendent Colonel Weerayut Prasopchokchai arrived at the scene, the fire had already engulf the entire slum.Some 20 fire trucks were mobilised to contain the fire covering 2-rai area.Weerayut said the slum had no electricity supplies and that some residents had to use candles for household lighting.He said he speculated that the fire at Oy’s home might have been caused by fallen-off candle.Neighbours said Oy was in a drunken stupor when the fire started. Oy was often on the drinking binge and her house caught fire three times previously although they managed to put them out, they said.Everyone was fleeing the spreading fire before realising too late that she was still inside her blazing home and could not get out.She died before the arrival of firemen and police.Chiang Mai vice mayor Natchudet Wiriyadiloktham said caretakers and their relatives lived in the slum.The municipal authorities arranged temporary shelters for fire victims to stay overnight at the cemetery before providing relief supplies today’s morning.Police and forensic officials will today check the scene in order to determine the cause of fire.The authorities have yet to decide whether to allow slum dwellers back into the cemetery or to relocate them to live elsewhere.
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Mahasarakham: – A man and his mistress (mianoi) died and left a note saying they took their own lives out of spite for the man’s wife who tried to break off their relationship, police said.Mahasarkham police station’s Lt Colonel Sompong Udomdet arrived at the scene after neighbours reported hearing gunshots inside the house on Thamwongsawat Road, Mahasakham Mueang district.Sompong said that the man, Sarawut Pakawayang, 43, and the woman, KetkanokSomsri, 18, had died of gunshot wounds. The two lay side by side on the bed.He also found 32 mm pistol dropped between the Sarawut’sleg. The gun had six of eight bullets left.Forensic report said Ketkanok had one gunshot wound in the head and that Sarawut had his gunshot wound at the right side of the nape of the neck.Based on the report, police assumed Ketkanok was the one who pulled the trigger.Police said the two jointly wrote what purported to be their suicide note.The note said in part, “Fon (Ketkanok’s nickname) wants to die. Even in my death, I would kill anyone for hurting me. We are deeply in love. Mother (addressing her five-month old baby girl) is mentally ill and I am obliged to raise you well. This is no kidding as I am mia not and don’t deserve to live any longer.”In another note passage, Sarawut wrote, “I am deeply in love with Fon. We are in love of one another. I want ‘everyone’ to know this as we are going to die together.”The preliminary police report said a few days before the tragic incident,Ketkanok went to see Sarawut at home as he failed to visit her as scheduled.Sarawut’s wife allegedly attacked her physically and verbally in an attempt to end the relationship.Yesterday Sarawut came to see Ketkanok at her home. Around 3.00 am neighbours heard two gunshots before alerting police.
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Chiang Mai:- A drunk university student swept a group of five cyclists on her way home in Chiang Mai Sunday morning, killing three of them at the scene and badly injuring the other two, police said.Phatchuda Jairuen, 24, admitted to police that she was under alcohol influence after she drank at a pub in Chiang Mai downtown Saturday night and she was sleepy while driving home.Pol Maj Suriyan Jansai, an interrogator of Doi Saket police station, was alerted of the accident at 6 am. The accident happened on the Chiang Mai-Chiang Rai Road in Doi Saket district.He rushed to the scene with a doctor on duty and rescuers of Samret Chiang Mai foundation.They found an overturned black Toyota Yaris on the road and five completely damaged bicycles and three bodies. Two injured cyclists have already been rushed to the Doi Saket Hospital.Phatchuda, a student of a university in Chiang Mai, was still inside the car. She appeared drunk and perplexed in what has happened. She said she was driving home in Wieng Heng district from Chiang Mai downtown and she had already parked and took a nap before she continued her drive.Police found that her blood alcohol level was 67 milligrams per cent, higher than the limit of 50 milligram per cent. She was charged with drunk driving causing deaths and injuries.The three victims were identified as Chairat Yonglun, 65, Samarn Kantha, 62 and Pongthep Khamkaew, 40.Polsak Polsing, 36, and Surapol Khamsing, 56, were injured.Polsak told police that he and 19 other members of the Sua Sansai Bike Club were riding from Sansai district to Mae Khachan Hot Spring in Chiang Rai.The cyclists were divided into three groups. Polsak said he and four others were in the middle group. He said the car was seen swaying and passing the rear group to hit his middle group.
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Source: facebook.com/PattayanewsarchivePattaya, Chon Buri:- A 24-year-old lady boy was arrested early Sunday for allegedly hitting the head of a 55-year-old Irish tourist with his high-heel shoe after the tourist refused his sex offer.Wichai Sripalang, 24, did not flee but he waited for police after he attacked Michael Marry from Ireland.Pol Maj Piyapong Ensarn, an inspector of the Pattaya tourist police, learned of the physical assault while he and Pattaya city officials were patrolling the Pattaya Walking Street in South Pattaya in Tambon Nongplua in Bang Lamung district at 2:30 am.Piyapong was informed that a lady boy injured a foreign tourist in front of the Infinity Go Go bar in the middle of the walking street.He and the officials rushed to the scene and found Marry with head injury. The heel of the shoe pieced a hole in his head. Rescuers from the Sawang Boribun Thammasathan Pattaya rushed to provide a first aid for him.The Irish man told police that he was strolling the walking street past the bar when the lady boy rushed to hug him and offered sex service.The Irish man said he did not like lady boys or transsexuals so he refused. He said Wichai would not let him go so he became angry and pushed him away.Wichai fell down. He attacked the tourist with a high-heel shoe after he got up.Wichai admitted that he had assaulted the tourist. So, he was charged with physically assaulting another person.Lady boys in Pattaya are notorious for preying on foreign tourists. Several incidents were reported that they pick-pocketed tourists after they surrounded and hugged the tourists.
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Chiang Mai: Several Thai environmentalists have been campaigning against a plan by a French resident in Chiang Mai to organize an “ultra run” to the Chiang Dao Mountain wildlife sanctuary in Chiang Mai.Manager Online reported that a French man, Sebastien Bertrand who lives in Chiang Mai, has initiated ultra run contest on mountainous routes in Chiang Mai.In the latest contest announced on the ultra-thai.com website and on Facebook page of the Thailand Mountain Trail of the Ultra-Thai.com, two races will be simultaneously held on one 150-kilometer route from Chiang Mai to Chiang Dao on December 4 to 6. The number of runners will be limited at 400 and each participant will have to pay a registration fee of US$495.After the race was announced, several Thai environmentalists came out to campaign against it for fear that the high number of runners would cause negative environmental impact on the Chiang Dao wildlife sanctuary.Among the protesting environmentalists was Doctor Rangsarit Kanchanawanit. He posted his message to oppose the run to Chiang Dao on the TMT Facebook page on Friday but his comment was removed soon after.Rangsarit then posted a message on his own Facebook that he would not allow such a contest to take place.Several other opponents joined his opposition, saying the Chiang Dao is a wildlife sanctuary with delicate environment and it could not tolerate so many people and it is not suitable for a big activity as the ultra run contest.Nikom Putsa, another environmentalist, said he opposed the activity because the Chiang Dao mountain is important as a site of biological diversities and endangered species.
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Bangkok: – The Commerce Ministry has insisted that Thailand has not been experiencing deflation despite negative inflation for four consecutive months.Last month, the inflation rate dropped by 1.04 per cent in comparison to the same period last year, seen as a highest record for negative inflation in five years and seven months.Somkiat Srirattanaphan, director of Trade Policy and Strategy Office, said Consumer’s Price Index rose 0.02 per cent last month in comparison to March.The CPI change of less than one per cent is considered negative inflation.The last month’s price change is attributed to seasonal fluctuation for the supplies of vegetables and fruits.Prices for key vegetables like kale, cabbage, coriander, lime, spring onion have slightly risen. The costs for rent, cigarette, liquor, pork, orange and food delivery service have also gone up.This year’s four-month inflation is at the average of 0.65 per cent.Of the 450 essential items in the CPI survey, prices for 148 items have increased, 199 items unchanged and 103 items dropped.The CPI for foods and non-alcoholic drinks rose by 0.60 per cent in comparison to last year.Somkiat said the CPI computation was swayed by the seasonal fluctuation of food and the oil price.Without food and oil factoring in the CPI, the country’s inflation rate is actually on the rise for more than one per cent and this is the reason why he rules out deflation, he said.For the remaining of 2015, the country will likely overcome the negative inflation as the oil price is on the upward trend, he said.Based on the ministry’s survey, the price of school uniform has remained unchanged from last year.The ministry has been campaigning to cap school uniform price as a way to help parents coping with the new term’s expenditures.
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Suphan Buri: – A 28-year-old Buddhist monk has won two lottery tickets with a combined first prize of 5 million baht and pledged to spend the money for his temple renovation.Phra Weera Thitaweero said two days before the lottery drawing, he had a dream about the spirit of a late revered monk Luang Pu Sook giving him a blessing.Phra Weera has been ordained for three years at Wat Khlong Khom, Sam Chuk district.He recounted that he had a temple duty to clean the statue of Luang Pu Suk. After the cleaning and presenting an offering, that night the spirit of Luang Pu came to him in a dream.Luang Pu said to him that he should clean the replica of Lord Buddha’s foot print, located nearby the sala in which Luang Pu statue was installed.The monk said according to Luang Pu’s spirit, he would be blessed with great fortune if he cleaned the foot print replica.He woke up and went out to do the cleaning.A day before the lottery drawing, a vendor suddenly asked him to buy the two lottery tickets still left unsold. Out of sympathy, he agreed to buy the tickets without paying attention.Yesterday he took out the tickets for checking as he thought it would be amusing if he won any prize.He said he was totally surprised to find out that his lottery tickets, number 543466, matched the first prize drawing.At the advice of fellow monks, he had reported his winning to the Sam Chuk police station. The report is seen as a legal confirmation of his tickets possession before cashing the prize.Critics have questioned whether it is appropriate for a monk to buy lottery after renouncing worldly possession.
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Krabi:- A big fire raged through more than ten shop houses on Koh Phi Phi in Krabi’s Tambon Ao Nang Friday morning, terrifying tourists on the popular island.No one was injured in the blaze as local people and tourists managed to flee once the fire broke out.Pol Lt Danai Niyomdecha, an inspector of Phi Phi police station, was alerted of the fire at 8 am.He rushed to the scene with officials and joined local villagers and tourists to fight the blaze.Local residents and official of Tambon Ao Nang Administrative Organization used water hosts from the Water Hill tab water factory to fight the blaze. The fire was put under control in about an hour.The fire broke out at a shop house near the way to the Phi Phi View Point. It destroyed clothes and foods shops and rented rooms.Danai said the fire might be started by short circuit but scientific crime detection officers have yet to establish the exact cause.It was the second reported fire of tourist destinations in three days. On Wednesday, a fire raged through the Monkey Bar at the shopping area of Kho Lak beach in Phang Nga’s Takua Pa district.The fire broke out at 1:30 pm, terrifying tourists who were shopping nearby.Fire fighters took about 20 minutes to control the blaze.A worker told police that he saw the blaze at the bar’s roof while he was working on an extension part of the bar behind it. The damage was estimated at more than Bt1 million.
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Rayong:- A post on YouLike Facebook page about a Russian man being dumped by his Thai girlfriend became a hot topic.Debates centered around questions why the Russian embassy could not send him home and who should be blamed for the separation as well as why he would not seek a temporary job and why his family would not help him.YouLike admin posted the story on behalf of a user, identified only as “@khaophote”.[Photo credit: YouLike/@Khaophote]The story, which is illustrated with photos, said a Russian man, called Alex, would like to return to his motherland. His ex-Thai girlfriend asked him to open a beauty shop for her but after he ran out of the money, the woman left.The story added that Alex offered to sell the beauty shop but no one would like to buy it so he had to gradually sell the equipment in the shop. The post said a woman, who owns a foods shop next door, has been giving him free meals for two months already.The post said Alex has been to the Russian embassy but the embassy could not send him home. @Khaophote said she was herself puzzled why the embassy could not help him.She posted the mobile phone number of woman, Aunt Phon, who provided foods and accommodation for the man, in case someone would like to help him.The post was made on Thursday and it has been liked over 65,700 times and shared by over 4,100 times.Sympathy poured in and the unidentified woman came under strong criticisms for damaging the country’s image – once again.But several skeptics wondered why the embassy and his family can’t help him. They wondered whether the man was lazy and refused to work, prompting the woman to leave him.
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