guest house on Pattaya third road was broken into, 200 pounds, and 3,700 US dollars was stolen from the safety boxes.

The guest house which has 5 rooms is located above an internet shop.The owner said her customers can only get into the building via a key card system, however on the morning of the robbery she found that the key card mechanism had been disconnected and that the lock to the door had been forced.Of the five safety boxes, three had been broken into to.The CCTV had also been tampered with as it had been disconnected so there was no footage of the burglar.The police collected fingerprints and said that they suspected that someone with inside knowledge had committed the crime, either an ex employee or possibly even a gue...

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Chinese music student, who stabbed a young mother to death after knocking her down with his car in an accident, was sentenced to death

Chinese music student, who stabbed a young mother to death after knocking her down with his car in an accident, was sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province. Yao Jiaxin, 21, stabbed the 26-year-old woman six times when he saw her trying to copy down his Chevrolet Cruz’s number plate after he knocked her off her electric scooter at 10:30 p.m. on October 20, 2010.After the stabbing, Yao drove away from the scene and in his hurry, injured two bystanders. In an interview with police on October 22, he denied he had committed the murder.However the next day he surrendered himself to police in the company of his parents and admitted to being responsible for the killing, the court said on Friday.After hitting the victim, Yao did...

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Mercedes bus stop killer jailed

The Phra Khanong provincial court sentenced Kanpithak Patchimsawat - son of a former Miss Thailand beauty queen - to 10 years and one month in jail for ramming his Mercedes into a crowd at a bus stop in 2007, killing a woman and injuring several others.The sentence was reduced from 15 years and two months, because Mr Kanpithak's family has already given compensation to some of the victims.The court ordered him to pay 2 million baht for relatives of the dead woman, and 800,000 baht for two people who were seriously injured that night.Mr Kanpithak or Moo Ham, 21, is the son of the former Miss Thailand, Sawinee and Kan-anek Patchimsawat, and a nephew of retired deputy police chief Ukrit Patchimsawat.Mr Kanpithak was also accused of smashing a rock in the face of bus driver Sathaporn Arunsiri...

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Shooting in Gor. Tor. Mor. Pub on Pattaya’s 3rd Road, near the back entry to Carrefour. One person was reported as critically injured from a gunshot wound.

The Pattaya Police were summoned at 4 AM Monday morning supervised by the Investigation Inspector Pol. Lt. Isadagorn Tepnao to investigate a Shooting in Gor. Tor. Mor. Pub on Pattaya’s 3rd Road, near the back entry to Carrefour. One person was reported as critically injured from a gunshot wound.At the scene, the customers were gathered outside the pub, and still frightened by the disturbance that had happened earlier. Inside the pub, the tables and chairs had been shoved about, creating a big mess. 3 Gunshot holes were found on the roof and 5 empty 9 mm bullet casings were found on the floor. The trouble makers had scattered well before the police arrived.  Mr. Prem-u-tai Rang-see-kan, aged 25 from Chaiyapum Province, AKA as Kwang Wat Tam, was discovered shot in his chest, by his right...

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Korean Drug Dealer Nabbed in Pattaya

Pattaya Police supervised by the Deputy Suppression Inspector Pol. Lt. Wisanu Chaisuwan devised a plan to arrest the well-known Korean Drug Dealer Mr. Kang Meong Chel, aged 45. He was reported to be in town for drug dealing, so an undercover policeman contacted Mr. Chel to purchase 4,000 baht worth of Yah Ice, with all 4 thousand baht bank notes recorded by photos. The delivery was to be at Benjapan Apartments, located in the soi near the Central and 3rd Road Traffic Light, behind TOT. Mr. Chel took the bait, and the police  apprehended him with 1.44 grams of Yah Ice. He was forced to take the police to search his room, where they found a Yah Ice party in full swing, with 2 Thai ladies Miss Anchana Ratanapisangoon, aged 26, and Miss Siranee Dok-chuea-em, aged 28, plus a 43 year old Korean...

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Thai authorities forced the closure of 13 antigovernment radio stations

Thai authorities forced the closure of 13 antigovernment radio stations yesterday in the biggest crackdown on dissident media since a state of emergency during street protests last year.Thai E-News, a website associated with the antigovernment Red Shirt movement, said stations based in Bangkok and its suburbs were raided by law enforcement.Police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri confirmed that the raids had been ordered but did not know how many stations had been closed. He said the stations had broadcast illegal statements defaming the monarchy. Insulting the monarchy is a crime in Thailand, though critics say the charge is often used to stifle legitimate dissent.The raids come at a time of political tension, as there are fears the country’s powerful military disagrees with the prime minister’s...

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Authorities push for extradition of Thai students in Australian murder case

AUSTRALIAN authorities are expected to return to a Thai court in May to push for the extradition of two locals wanted in Melbourne for the murder of good samaritan Luke Mitchell.Mr Mitchell, 29, was stabbed five times and kicked while he lay on the ground in the early hours of May 24, 2009 as his friends and sister-in-law Daniella pleaded with the attackers to stop. He died later that morning in hospital.He had stepped in to break up a brawl outside the Spot nightclub in Sydney Road, Brunswick.His alleged killers fled to Thailand just hours after the stabbing.Thai nationals Sarud Seehaverachart, 28, and Thatiya Terdputham, 35, were arrested late last year following requests from Australia.The two men appeared in a Bangkok criminal court again yesterday, where prosecution witnesses argued for...

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Taxi Caught with Yah Bah

while the Pattaya police and police volunteers were on Patrol, a Thai man and a lady were spotted driving on Pratamnak Road suspiciously as if they were on drugs. The police stopped them and found that the man was a motorcycle taxi driver Mr. Wichian A-nu-pa-pan-cha-roen, aged 30 caught with 2 Yah Bah tablets and the lady, who was his girlfriend, were returning from buying Yah Bah.Mr. Wichian confessed of being addicted on Yah Bah for a while as he had to take some before making his living as a taxi motorcycle driver in Soi Sa-ing, North Pattaya. He was sent for legal proceedings but the lady’s names and history were recorded in the system of police before the lady was released.&nb...

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Multiple Farang Deaths in Phuket

In the past two months there has been a rash of unsolved deaths of Farangs in Phuket. One Canadian man in Patong,shot multiple times in dispute over property, one British man living and working out of a shop house, head bashed in, near-by the Lotus Super Store By-pass road, poisoning of an American lady, a Norwegian lady and two other foreign persons on Kho Pi Pi island, and lastly one British lady found face down in the sand on Keron beach strangled to death.None of these cases have been found to have any weight within the public news media in Thailand other than reports in the local Phuket Gazette, when it reports and then never follows up as is the norm here on the island. To date no person or persons have been found by local police and prosecuted for any of the alleged crimes/murders....

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Asian Crime Squad detectives, with assistance from the Bass Hill Region Enforcement Squad, have charged a man over alleged hydroponic cannabis cultivation.

Asian Crime Squad detectives, with assistance from the Bass Hill Region Enforcement Squad, have charged a man over alleged hydroponic cannabis cultivation. About 6.20am yesterday (Wednesday 20 April, 2011), police executed a search warrant at a home in Chester Hill where they located and seized 165 hydroponic cannabis plants. The estimated potential street value of the plants is $330,000. A 44-year-old man was arrested at the scene and charged with cultivate commercial quantity of cannabis pants, and stealing electricity. He was bail refused to appear at Bankstown Local Court today. Strike Force Thoroughfare comprises detectives from the State Crime Command's Asian Crime Squad and was established to investigate the alleged hydroponic cultivation of canna...

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Some brokerages may go bankrupt due to bearish market

Statistics show most securities enterprises have been suffering heavy losses from the slumping stock market since 2008, including Vina, Mien Nam, Navibank, Thanh Cong and Nam An.In the last three years, Mien Nam Securities Corporation lost more than 50 percent of its registered capital of VND40 billion (US$2 million), while the bearish market wiped out nearly 70 percent of brokerage Vina’s registered capital of VND185 billion.Securities company Navibank followed a similar pattern, losing 60 percent of its registered capital of VND35 billion.Financial experts said those securities firms will likely to go bankrupt if the stock market remains in the losing streak this year and their shareholders continue to refuse buying more shares to keep them alive.Even some brokerages with large market capitalization...

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drunken British tourist who violently rocked a baht bus “for fun” ended up getting punched in the face by its driver.

Philip Champreks, 39, complained to police he’d been punched in the eye by the taxi driver and assaulted by other passengers April 4. Champreks received three stitches for a cut.Champreks admitted he was violently rocking the pickup truck, but said he was only having fun.Clearly intoxicated, the Brit then stormed from the station without pressing charges and ranting about unfair treatme...

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A Swedish man stopped at a routine police checkpoint was arrested after testing positive for illegal drugs.

John Peter Josefson, 25, was caught around 2 a.m. April 6 at a checkpoint on Soi Bonkai. A later search of his room uncovered drug paraphernalia, but no illegal narcotics.Josefson was one of about 10 people arrested for flunking drug tests conducted by officers at the Soi Bonkai st...

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Kuwaiti man pulled over by police was arrested for possession and use of three illegal drugs.

Khaled Faea Alazemi, 31, tested positive for methamphetamines. Officers who then searched his Pinya Residence apartment discovered a half-gram of ya ice, ya ba tablets and marijuana. He was jailed on possession of Class 1 and Class 5 narcotics.The arrest occurred April 5 as Pattaya Police were patrolling near the flyover close to Bali Hai Pier. Alazemi was pulled over for an unspecified reason and searched. He was then brought to Pattaya Police Station for drug testing.Police claim Alazemi confessed he bought the drugs on Walking Street for his personal u...

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Frenchman wearing a 50,000 baht gold necklace had the expensive jewelry snatched from his neck as he rode on the back of his Thai girlfriend’s motorbike.

Frenchman wearing a 50,000 baht gold necklace had the expensive jewelry snatched from his neck as he rode on the back of his Thai girlfriend’s motorbike.Frederic Granier, 46, reported that the 2-baht-weight necklace with a Luang Por Sothorn Buddha amulet was taken by an unknown suspect April 9 near the Naklua market.Phanitch Chamkadklang, 33, said she tried to follow the thief as he fled from Naklua Soi 13, but lost him near Banglamung Hospit...

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Thief with Red Nails Caught Hiding in Neighbor’s House

Saturday at 3:30 am, the Pattaya Police, the Civilian Volunteers and the Police Volunteers, led by Deputy Superintendent In charge of Suppression, Pol. Lt. Col. Grisagorn Tong-in were summoned by Mrs. Pranon Foster, aged 36.  She stated that a thief was trying to break into her house, which is located in The Grand Lotus Place, on Soi Tepprasit 5.  Both she and her husband had been awoken by the sound of a glass window being broken, and then saw the thief climbing the fence to run away. The police came to the crime scene immediately. The nearly burgled house was a luxurious villa, and Mrs. Pranom Foster was waiting for the police. The police found a sliding window at the side of the house broken, showing where the thief was trying to enter.  Mrs. Pranom and her husband said...

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large-scale police raid targeted members of two Asian criminal street gangs

Police arrested 10 gang suspects Wednesday morning while carrying out search warrants tied to a fatal Garden Grove shooting, also finding drugs, guns and $70,000 in cash during the search of more than a dozen locations in Orange and Los Angeles counties, authorities said.The large-scale police raid targeted members of two Asian criminal street gangs believed to be involved in the killing of 19-year-old Scottie Bui, who died from injuries sustained in an early morning shooting March 20 near Harbor Boulevard and Westminster Avenue, Garden Grove Police Lt. Jeff Nightengale said.Police have not outlined what led to the confrontation, which appears to have involved members of at least three gangs. A juvenile also shot during the incident survived his injuries.No drugs or guns were found at the...

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Thai Army Denies Using Toxic Gas in Cambodian Border Battle

Thailand denied accusations that its soldiers used toxic gas against Cambodian troops in the deadliest fighting along their disputed border since tensions flared up three years ago.Battles that began April 22 have killed five Thais and six Cambodians, according to army officials and press reports, ending two months of peace since the United Nations Security Council urged a permanent cease-fire on Feb. 14. Thai soldiers used “heavy guns loaded with poisonous gas” in yesterday’s fighting, Cambodia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.“The Cambodians are really incredible to make up a story like that,” Veerachon Sukondhadhpatipak, the Thai army’s deputy spokesman, said by phone from Bangkok. “They are always making up stories to make us look bad.”The renewed fighting comes as Thai Prime Minister...

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Thailand and Cambodia exchanged gunfire

Thailand and Cambodia exchanged gunfire at their disputed frontier Friday in a new flareup of their long-running conflict, and the Thai army said one of its soldiers was killed and five were injured.It was the first skirmish reported since the two Southeast Asian countries exchanged artillery and gunfire for four straight days in February at the 11th century Preah Vihear temple, killing at least eight people.Cambodian Defence Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Chhum Socheat confirmed the latest clash and said it took place about 155 miles (250 kilometers) west of Preah Vihear.Chhum said the fighting took place at another temple in Ta Krabey that is also claimed by both nations. He said both sides had used rocket launchers, machine guns and rifles.Thai Army Spokesman Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd told...

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THREE MAJOR ivory seizures this month “provide further insight into the markets being targeted by organized crime syndicates smuggling elephant ivory from Africa to Asia”,

THREE MAJOR ivory seizures this month “provide further insight into the markets being targeted by organized crime syndicates smuggling elephant ivory from Africa to Asia”, according to Traffic International, the wildlife trade monitoring network.One of the largest recent seizures – a “staggering” 707 tusks, 32 ivory bracelets and a rhino horn – was made during a routine inspection of a large truck at tollbooths on a highway in Guangxi, China, just a few kilometres from the border with Vietnam.On April 1st, 247 elephant tusks were seized by customs officers in Thailand, concealed in a consignment of frozen fish from Kenya. And this week, Vietnamese police confiscated another 122 ivory tusks from a warehouse in Mong Cai, near the Chinese border.“The enforcement authorities ... are to be congratulated...

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The infamous Bangkok nightlife is no national or international secret. From the strip joints of Patpong to Soi Cowboy with their bars and nightclubs, the Phetchaburi and Ratchadaphisek roads with their massage parlours and spas that offer "special services",

The infamous Bangkok nightlife is no national or international secret. From the strip joints of Patpong to Soi Cowboy with their bars and nightclubs, the Phetchaburi and Ratchadaphisek roads with their massage parlours and spas that offer "special services", the numerous pubs, bars, executive clubs and "marn rood" (curtained) hotels - all are proof of a thriving sex industry in the capital.From "a-go-gos" to "coyotes" and the odd and varied sex shows, girls, boys and increasingly transvestites dance the floors half or fully naked. Alcohol flows and sex workers can be had for a fee. As for the spas and massage parlours, the rooms are conveniently included with the services rendered.In Bangkok and other cities like Pattaya, Phuket and Chiang Mai, you can of course enjoy sightseeing the various...

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Tensions are rising in Thailand's capital city as army leaders accuse opposition politicians of being disloyal to the country's revered king

Tensions are rising in Thailand's capital city as army leaders accuse opposition politicians of being disloyal to the country's revered king and some residents worry that planned elections will be blocked, by a coup or some other means.Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said he is preparing to dissolve Parliament and announce national elections next month, kicking off a campaign for a vote expected as soon as the end of June. He hopes the vote—the first since deadly protests erupted last year—will end five years of instability and violence and enable Southeast Asia's second-largest economy to build on its rapid recovery from the global economic slump.But some analysts say there is still a risk the vote might not take place at all. In recent weeks, army commander Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha has filed...

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BRITISH accountant and his girlfriend have been charged with killing a six-year-old girl after kidnapping her for child porn.

The 48-year-old, from South London, and his Filipina lover, 35, allegedly snatched Ellah Joy Pique outside a school in Cebu, a Philippine island.Police claim they wanted her for porn videos but the plan “went awry, leading to the slaying and dumping of her body” over a cliff.Warrants for both were filed by the Cebu ­Provincial Prosecutor’s Offi...

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