Bangkok (The Nation/ANN) – A 25-year-old Filipino tourist has been missing in Thailand since April 30, her relatives reported. Kristine Enriquez Salvador was with a relative when she travelled to Thailand from the Philippines on April 27 for a pleasure visit. Read article
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A French tourist has been killed in an overnight fire that engulfed an illegally operated budget hotel in one of the Thai capital’s main tourist districts. Police say the fire started at a bar on the ground floor of a three-story building in the city’s Khao San Road neighborhood, an area popular with backpackers and […]
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A Bangkok cabdriver previously convicted of a sexual assault was arrested for allegedly raping a female passenger on Monday, a police said at a press conference late on Monday night. Klongton police superintendent Pol Colonel Sittipab Baiprasert said a friend of the 26-year-old victim alerted police at 7.15pm that the woman was being raped in […]
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BANGKOK, 25 May 2012 (NNT) – A sister of late Italian photojournalist Fabio Polenghi, who died in political violence in 2010 in Thailand, has said she was pleased with the government’s assistance for her family. Ms. Elisabetta Polenghi said she wanted her brother’s death to remind people of how important the press freedom is in […]
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BANGKOK, 25 May 2012: The parents of three London students killed in a coach crash in Thailand last year have called on the Foreign Office to issue more warnings on the danger of bus travel in Thailand. BBC reported, 23 May, that the parents of Conrad Quashie, Bruno Melling-Firth and Maximilian Boomgaarden-Cook, all 19, were […]
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The Chiang Mai hotel at the centre of a scandal after four guests – three of them foreigners – mysteriously died there last year is being demolished. The Downtown Inn, in the Chiang Mai tourist centre near the Night Bazaar, made headlines last year and was dubbed ”the death hotel” as claims emerged chemicals used […]
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PHUKET: — The body of Stephane Dacosta, a 33-year-old French national, thought to have drowned yesterday, was recovered from the waters off Freedom Beach this morning. Mr Dacosta was reported missing at about 5pm yesterday by friends who had attempted, with the help of local fishermen, to save him after noticing the French man struggling […]
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PHUKET: An ”Evil Gang” of boy armed robbers who stole goods worth 500,000 baht from 30 to 40 tourists on Phuket is under arrest, police said today. The gang – two 15-year-olds, two 16-year-olds and a 17-year-old – committed the motorcycle snatch robberies on tourists as they walked the streets of Phuket’s popular west coast […]
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HAT YAI, Thailand – It has been more than a month, but one can still get a whiff of sulphur from the explosion on the second floor of the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel multi-storey car park that claimed three lives, two of them Malaysians, and injuring nearly 400 people on March 31. The explosion, linked […]
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Bouacar, a Guinea national, had been tracked for some time by Kathu police before his arrest, after his role as an alleged drug dealer was reported to police. He was arrested during an attempt to sell 15 grammes of ya ice to an undercover police detective at a hotel on Nanai Road. Read article
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