Articles by: James Morris and Son Nguyen
Crime, Living, Media, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:
Death penalty looms for two Thai men after guilty pleas over the rape and murder of Russian siblings in Pattaya. The case exposed three earlier… Read More ›
Foreigners, Living, Media, More News from Thailand, Thailand:
British father battles UK visa refusal that threatens his baby’s first Christmas in Lancashire. His Burmese fiancée is barred from visiting despite their Koh Tao… Read More ›
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Thai police uncover 7kg of suspected heroin packed into instant drink sachets for Australia. The senders remain unidentified. Meanwhile, officers seize 2.56 million yaba tablets… Read More ›
Crime, Living, Media, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:
Police storm a karaoke bar at 4 am, arresting 13 Vietnamese and one Thai in a ketamine bust. Meanwhile, four Chinese KTV clubs are closed… Read More ›
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Just two hours after his final Facebook post, Nonthaburi’s ‘Robocop’ policeman, 28, was dead. A car turned across double yellow lines into his motorcycle’s path.… Read More ›
Crime, Living, Media, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:
Bangkok cocaine sting leads police from a dealer to a Nigerian supplier mixing drugs with chalk and baking soda. Big Nop’s crackdown nets three arrests,… Read More ›
Culture, Economy, Foreigners, Living, Media, More News from Thailand, Thailand:
Nene Royal, 16, conquers America’s Got Talent, meets Thailand’s King and rocks with Avenged Sevenfold. But a Chiang Mai woman filed for her stage name… Read More ›
Crime, Living, Media, Personal, Politics, Thai World, Thailand:
Four unlicensed KTV clubs serving Chinese customers face a midnight crackdown in Rayong. Suspected prostitution, drugs and illegal workers emerge. Claims of ฿10,000–฿30,000 monthly payoffs… Read More ›
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Gunfire tears through a Narathiwat hideout as police and soldiers confront armed suspects. A sergeant and three men die, while two rangers are badly wounded.… Read More ›
Crime, Living, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:
Nearly four months after a court issued its first warrant, immigration police arrest an American businessman in Sukhumvit. Workers claim over ฿1 million in unpaid… Read More ›
Crime, Living, Media, Personal, Politics, Thai World, Thailand:
Schoolboys aged 15–17 were tricked into supplying intimate videos for bogus university research, DSI says. Bangkok hotel worker, 26, arrested. DSI investigators seized 5,000 explicit… Read More ›
Crime, Living, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:
Two motorcycle gunmen unleash more than ten shots outside a Bangkok cannabis shop, killing a 31-year-old man. Friends dive for cover as the killers flee.… Read More ›
Crime, Living, Media, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:
A sudden call from a Thai woman’s child triggers a Pattaya police operation and the arrest of a South Korean man. Officers find a 274-day… Read More ›
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Yala security forces come under bomb attack as assailants throw two pipe bombs towards troop accommodation. Five officers are injured, one by shrapnel. The second… Read More ›
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Police arrest Chinese air hostess in Hat Yai over suspected migrant smuggling between Thailand and Malaysia. Two men crossed illegally, another woman hid inside a… Read More ›
Economy, Foreigners, Living, Media, More News from Thailand, Politics, Thailand:
Violence flares near Bangkok’s IMF and World Bank summit as police clash with protesters trying to hang banners from a bridge. Demonstrators are injured, but… Read More ›
Crime, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:
Roadside bloodshed in Surat Thani as a woman shoots dead her former rubber tapper, 47, over a rice cooker and borrowed motorcycle. She admits threatening… Read More ›
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Phuket cooking class ends in arrest for a Portuguese woman after immigration police expose a 1,807-day overstay. She has no original passport, only a phone… Read More ›
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Bomb squad police search a Malaysian couple’s car near Bangkok’s IMF–World Bank meetings after finding 40 litres of petrol. The honeymooners are cleared. Meanwhile, police… Read More ›
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Thai women recruited for lucrative Hong Kong hotel sex bookings as police arrest 16 and seize or freeze ฿77 million. Organisers pocketed 70% of takings,… Read More ›
Democrat Party spokesman wants answers from the government over long promised but stalled rail link 
Thai Gold market in Thailand shaken by huge Binance cryptocurrency theft linked to North Korean actors 
Thai citizens in Poland warned to stay clear of political crisis and protests over judicial appointments 
Amnesty boss says Cambodian state or officials complicit in the country’s still existing scam industry 
Three Chinese nationals rescued by police in Tak province near Burma. Police top brass want answers 
Prime Minister under fire from MPs in parliament over rumoured cuts to allowances for southern police 
Upmarket prostitution racket in Singapore procuring sexy Thai women to work in the city state smashed 
Border locals in Tak seek protection as war in Burma’s Karen State intensifies between rebels and army 
PM revokes citizenship of Jewish leader in Thailand amid police investigation into Chabad network nationwide 
Tourism chiefs furious as another Chinese abduction and a spat with the Embassy threaten bookings 
Bank of Thailand confirms a tale of two economies one booming, another struggling with decline 
French businessman wanted for VAT fraud arrested this Wednesday on Koh Samui after Interpol Notice 
Thailand’s GDP may get a bump up from the 3rd quarter after recent economic agency talks with PM Anutin 
Thousands of fake Thai citizens of Chinese origin identified in one case going back over two decades 
New police chief wants officers who show their faces to the public and issue warnings instead of fines 
Special Branch and cyber police move against the ‘Godd Dam’ Facebook page after PM ‘tea money’ fake 
Government spokesman’s rebuke to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Keep out of Thai internal affairs 
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