Crime

Visitors warned of the deadly danger of working in Thailand without a proper visa and valid work permit 

Visitors warned of the deadly danger of working in Thailand without a proper visa and valid work permit 

December 3, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, Living, Personal, Thailand:

The Thai Immigration Bureau is right now in the middle of another crackdown. This means near-daily stories of foreigners being detained and caught up in… Read More ›

Songkhla teacher killed his ex-girlfriend in a murderous rage after she spurned his love in car meeting

Songkhla teacher killed his ex-girlfriend in a murderous rage after she spurned his love in car meeting

December 1, 2019

Crime, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:

Violent rage of ex-boyfriend left the young 29-year-old teacher with stab wounds to her face and torso. Her killer, a 26-year-old man also a teacher,… Read More ›

Parents call for the execution of man who murdered two young teachers at their Rayong home for a motorbike

Parents call for the execution of man who murdered two young teachers at their Rayong home for a motorbike

November 30, 2019

Crime, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:

It is being reported that the young teaching couple made a complaint to police in Rayong recently after receiving threats from a football betting concern… Read More ›

Pattaya police arrest 6 people in major drugs raid on a house linked to Aussie crime gang network

Pattaya police arrest 6 people in major drugs raid on a house linked to Aussie crime gang network

November 29, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, More News from Thailand, Thailand:

Australian bikie gangs increasingly involved in the international drug trade business using Thailand as a base to supply drugs to Australia and worldwide from southern… Read More ›

Pattaya’s Russian tourists targeted by motorcycle snatch gang as the city’s hotels struggle with lower occupancy

Pattaya’s Russian tourists targeted by motorcycle snatch gang as the city’s hotels struggle with lower occupancy

November 27, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, Living, More News from Thailand, Thailand:

At a reception on Tuesday attended by the Governor of the Thailand Tourism Authority in Pattaya, a recycling initiative was launched by a Thai company… Read More ›

Father in law brutally executes his son and law over a 3-year grudge in Nakhon Si Thammarat province

Father in law brutally executes his son and law over a 3-year grudge in Nakhon Si Thammarat province

November 26, 2019

Crime, More News from Thailand, Thai World, Thailand:

A two-year-old little Thai girl saw her grandfather kill her father in a violent attack when he came to her grandparents to bring his family… Read More ›

Online child abuse is being exploited as a business opportunity by some Thai porn barons with networks

Online child abuse is being exploited as a business opportunity by some Thai porn barons with networks

November 25, 2019

Crime, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:

Thai investors had purchased the platform as a group set up in Russia and hosted on the popular Russian social network VK. The man arrested… Read More ›

UK ram raider rammed back home to serve seven and a half years in prison after hiding out in sunny Thailand

UK ram raider rammed back home to serve seven and a half years in prison after hiding out in sunny Thailand

November 24, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, More News from Thailand, Thailand:

Dangerous British criminal living in Thailand for 18 months had committed 4 ram raids by driving powerful cars into buildings and burglarising them. His last… Read More ›

Crackdown on illegal foreigners sees American teacher arrested in class and Russian at his restaurant lunch

Crackdown on illegal foreigners sees American teacher arrested in class and Russian at his restaurant lunch

November 21, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, Personal, Thailand:

Begpacker couple of ‘hippy’ Greek man and Chinese man also arrested in Chiang Mai sitting on the pavement as police check the rolls of Chiang… Read More ›

Tragedy of a 13-year-old Muslim girl who died on Friday in Bangkok shows need for more women police

Tragedy of a 13-year-old Muslim girl who died on Friday in Bangkok shows need for more women police

November 20, 2019

Crime, Thailand:

A devastating and heartbreaking tragedy for a Muslim mother in Bangkok who realised too late that her daughter was depressed and suffering after being captured… Read More ›

Gold snatched from Russian woman’s neck in Pattaya by a flying motorcycle thief late on Sunday night

Gold snatched from Russian woman’s neck in Pattaya by a flying motorcycle thief late on Sunday night

November 18, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, More News from Thailand, Thailand:

The young Russian woman had stopped on the sidewalk to tend to her 3-year-old daughter when the raider struck. A motorcyclist snatched two gold necklaces… Read More ›

UK man claims FBI investigating the death of 41-year-old American held at Thai immigration jail in May

UK man claims FBI investigating the death of 41-year-old American held at Thai immigration jail in May

November 18, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, More News from Thailand, Thailand:

UK man recalls the harrowing and sad end of the university-educated US man who was only held at the facility for 4 days. He claims… Read More ›

American drug dealing fugitive is declared dead at Sa Kaeo hospital 8 days after shooting

American drug dealing fugitive is declared dead at Sa Kaeo hospital 8 days after shooting

November 16, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, More News from Thailand, Thailand:

American fugitive Bart Allen Helmus was finally officially declared dead this week 8 days after shooting himself in the head with a handgun rather than… Read More ›

American arrested by police task force in Chiang Mai on a warrant related to public indecency

American arrested by police task force in Chiang Mai on a warrant related to public indecency

November 16, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, More News from Thailand, Thailand:

Conflicting reports surround the arrest and interrogation of the American man after he tried to board a bus out of Chiang Mai, on public indecency… Read More ›

Police in the trail of ฿5 million taken from a Thai man’s bank account through forgery and duplicity 

Police in the trail of ฿5 million taken from a Thai man’s bank account through forgery and duplicity 

November 15, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, More News from Thailand, Thailand:

Since learning of the calamity on Wednesday and reporting it to his bank and the police, the 61-year-old man named as Hieraem Ekkaphat has had… Read More ›

Thai wife with cancer decides to take her handsome husband with her in a desperate act of murder-suicide

Thai wife with cancer decides to take her handsome husband with her in a desperate act of murder-suicide

November 14, 2019

Crime, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:

Police are still carrying out a detailed forensic examination and keeping an open mind but when they entered the bedroom early on Thursday morning the… Read More ›

Rough justice meted out by former senior policeman at a Thai provincial court as 3 die in shoot out

Rough justice meted out by former senior policeman at a Thai provincial court as 3 die in shoot out

November 12, 2019

Crime, More News from Thailand, Thai World, Thailand:

The bizarre and shocking mass killing brings the number of security incidents in the last 6 weeks linked with Thai court buildings to 3 as… Read More ›

An American nutcase in Thailand insults locals, harasses a local restaurant in Chiang Mai

An American nutcase in Thailand insults locals, harasses a local restaurant in Chiang Mai

November 11, 2019

Crime, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:

46-year-old American has been intimidating a Thai woman at her place of business in Chiang Mai even after being arrested and charged by police after… Read More ›

Thailand hit by online fraud schemes with billions lost by savers looking for a quick buck

Thailand hit by online fraud schemes with billions lost by savers looking for a quick buck

November 10, 2019

Crime, Living, Media, Personal, Thai World, Thailand:

As policemen in Udon Thani worked overtime on Saturday to interview victims of the ‘Mae Manee’ fraud in which 4,000 people are estimated to have… Read More ›

Westerner facing up to 7 years for yanking open aircraft door as it taxied for takeoff nearly causing disaster

Westerner facing up to 7 years for yanking open aircraft door as it taxied for takeoff nearly causing disaster

November 10, 2019

Crime, Foreigners, More News from Thailand, Thailand:

The incident occurred on Wednesday and the young man, who looked to be in his twenties, had to be controlled by security personnel and forcibly… Read More ›