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Teachers who tolerate vaping face legal action
Published on 15/03/2025
» The government has warned that disciplinary action will be taken against teachers and educational staff found involved in promoting e-cigarette use among the young.
Deeper Dive Thailand: Is vaping safer than smoking cigarettes?
Published on 24/02/2025
» Over the past 20 years, fewer than 100 people worldwide have died from vaping, while more than 100 million people have died from smoking regular cigarettes. In Thailand, the tobacco death toll is 71,000 people each year, and from vaping – zero. So why are cigarettes available in every convenience store, while e-cigarettes are banned?
Three busted for selling e-cigarettes, baraku on Koh Phangan
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 16/02/2025
» SURAT THANI: Police have arrested three women – a Russian, a Myanmar and a Thai – for selling contraband e-cigarettes and baraku in two raids on Koh Phangan.
E-cigarettes, e-baraku now specifically prohibited for students
News, Post Reporters, Published on 07/01/2025
» The cabinet has approved the designation of electronic cigarettes and electronic baraku as prohibited items for students, with four levels of punishment, as proposed by the Ministry of Education..
Teachers get power to seize e-cigarettes
Published on 16/06/2024
» The Education Ministry has joined hands with the Commerce Ministry to empower teachers across the country to have the full legal right to confiscate e-cigarettes in schools.
Russians caught gambling at poker
Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 23/01/2024
» PHUKET: Four Russian gamblers were arrested while playing poker at a luxury villa in Muang district.
80 Indian gamblers arrested in Pattaya hotel raid
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 01/05/2023
» CHON BURI: Eighty Indian gamblers were among people rounded up by police in a raid on a luxury hotel in Pattaya in the small hours on Monday.
Patong cops chief, deputies shunted over party video
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 18/04/2022
» Phuket: The chief of Patong police and four of his deputies have been transferred to the provincial head office after celebrity lawyer Sittra Biebangkerd posted a video clip on Facebook showing a pub in the Patong Bay Hill resort open past legal hours.
Lawyer exposes late-night antics at Phuket nightspot
Online Reporters, Published on 16/04/2022
» PHUKET: Crusading lawyer Sittra Biebangkerd has trained his sights — and a video camera — on a nightspot that has been operating well beyond legal closing hours on this resort island.
Police raid 2 Pattaya pubs open after hours
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 24/02/2022
» CHON BURI: Police will propose the closure of two pubs in Pattaya for repeated breaches of Covid-19 restrictions after raids early Thursday morning.