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German paedophile sorry for 'fake news'
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/01/2024
» A German tourist who claimed to have paid a one-million-baht bribe to police in Pattaya to secure his release from detention in 2022 for soliciting an underage prostitute has issued a letter stating that the information he gave was misleading, deputy national police chief Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn said yesterday.
Free visa for tourists from China raises crime concerns
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 05/09/2023
» A free-visa travel privilege for Chinese visitors proposed by new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin could lead to more transnational crime, according to the Immigration Bureau (IB).
Rioters given jail sentences for torching police vehicles
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 31/08/2023
» Four anti-government protesters have each received sentences of between one and three years in jail for a riot in Din Daeng district last year, with three found guilty of torching police vehicles.
Four rioters jailed for 1-3 years
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 30/08/2023
» Four anti-government protesters have been sentenced to one to three years in jail for a riot in Din Daeng district of Bangkok last year and three of them have been found guilty of torching police vehicles.
No VIP room for Thaksin, say police
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 23/08/2023
» Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was not admitted to a VIP room at Police General Hospital and even the air-conditioning where he is staying is not up to par, authorities said on Wednesday.
Rianthong found guilty of defaming Sira
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 08/08/2023
» The Criminal Court has sentenced Mongkutwattana Hospital director, Maj Gen Dr Rianthong Nanna, to five years in prison and fined him 100,000 baht for defaming Sira Jenjaka, a former Palang Pracharath Party MP for Bangkok.
'Ghosts' return to Korean haunts
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 06/06/2023
» Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) representatives recently took a trip to South Korea, to meet with their counterparts to try to find a solution to the problem of illegal Thai labourers, known as phi noi or little ghosts.
Cops plan crackdown on Chinese crooks
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 24/04/2023
» The Metropolitan Police Bureau will endorse a crackdown on Chinese underhand dealings in Bangkok as the number of abduction and ransom cases is increasing.
Agencies hunt for hacker
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 01/04/2023
» Authorities are hunting down a hacker who has threatened to release the personal data of 55 million Thais if the government agency allegedly involved in the leakage of information fails to meet a ransom demand by April 5.
Post-Covid spike brings trafficking to fore
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 27/02/2023
» The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division (ATPD) has set its sights on Tier 1 recognition in the US Trafficking in Persons Report, or TIP Report, ahead of the next review round.