I never thought there would be any scams more elaborated than we see in a movie, but my experience in Thailand let me know I was wrong. Read Article
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Two Canadian sisters found dead in their hotel room on a popular Thai resort island may have been the victims of “serious food poisoning,” police said Sunday. The bodies of Audrey and Noemi Belanger, aged 20 and 26, were found Friday by hotel staff on Phi Phi island in the Andaman Sea, 800 kilometers (500 […]
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YOUNG Sydney woman on holiday in Thailand has been jailed for 15 days after admitting she made up a story that she was raped by a taxi driver. Stevie Rochelle Bamford, 21, from the eastern suburbs, had told police she took a tuktuk taxi home after arguing with her boyfriend while on a late night […]
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Police are investigating the cause of death of two Canadian sisters found dead in their hotel room on Phi Phi Island yesterday afternoon. Lt Siwa Saneha of Phi Phi Island Police Station told the Phuket Gazette, “We received a report at about 9pm yesterday, that two tourists’ bodies were found in the same hotel room […]
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As a follow-up to yesterday’s posting, the body of Arizona State University student Joshua Stone, 21, was found today (June 14), after Stone disappeared while swimming at night off of a Patong beach in Phuket on Tuesday night (June 12). Our condolences and sympathies goes out to Mr. Stone’s and the ASU community. Read article
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PHANGNGA, June 10 – Rescue workers are searching for an Egyptian tourist who went missing in a flash flood in Phangnga, while one police volunteer was injured in a storm-related incident in Trang. The tourist was whitewater rafting in the Klong Songphraek stream and went missing three days ago in the flash flood. Read article
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PHUKET: After three days of searching, rescue workers this morning found the body of a man who disappeared on Friday after a horrific whitewater rafting accident in Phang Nga, north of Phuket. The Egyptian Embassy named the man as Hossamellein Mostafa Abdallas Hamada, 24, and confirmed to the Phuket Gazette today that the family had […]
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PHUKET: An Australian visitor has died after falling ill today at an apartment block in Cherng Talay. Police believe the man, aged 38, may have suffered a heart attack. One of Phuket’s new fleet of ambulances answered an emergency call about 10.30am and paramedics attempted to keep the man alive but he died about 11am […]
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PHUKET: An Australian, a German and a Thai bar owner have been arrested over one kilo of marijuana in the Phuket nightlife hub of Patong – but it was not the waft of the weed that attracted the attention of police. Neighbors in Hasipee Road Patong complained to Kathu Police Station about the music emanating […]
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CHIANGRAI TIMES – Illegal rubies, hot romance with a Thai ladyboy Johnny Frode Peter Bo Henriksen’s life contained all the elements for a juicy thriller, but ended abruptly Wednesday on the beach near the town of Krabi in Thailand. The body of 46 year old Johnny Frode Peter Bo Henriksen was found last week in […]
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