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Two fake doctors flee as Pattaya clinic raided
Gary Boyle, Published on 14/11/2025
» Authorities in Pattaya on Wednesday raided an illegal clinic catering mainly to foreign patients, but two suspects reportedly posing as doctors managed to escape.
Two arrested after B3.4m robbery at mall car park
Gary Boyle, Published on 02/07/2025
» Police have arrested two of seven suspects in connection with a 3.4-million-baht robbery at a Bangkok shopping mall, where cash was taken from the victims during a bogus cryptocurrency exchange meeting.
Police arrest 13 cannabis-smuggling 'tourists' at Samui airport
Gary Boyle, Published on 17/03/2025
» Police in Surat Thani have found many “visitors” who tried to smuggle suitcases containing cannabis out of the country as over the past four days they have arrested 13 foreign “tourists” with cannabis that would have a total market price of 75 million baht overseas.
Police crack down on foreign criminals
Gary Boyle, Published on 17/04/2024
» Authorities are ramping up their crackdown on foreign criminals who arrive as tourists and use Thailand as their base for crimes.
Four Chinese beggars arrested
Gary Boyle, Published on 28/11/2019
» Four Chinese men have been arrested for begging in Bangkok, with bogus stories to draw public sympathy that allowed them to earn 2,500 baht a day each.
'Ghost students' found at more schools in Northeast
Gary Boyle, Published on 26/11/2018
» Ten more northeastern schools have been found with bogus students on their rolls, allegedly to facilitate the directors' transfer to bigger schools where parents are willing to pay admission bribes.
Canadian charged with selling fake jobs abroad
Gary Boyle, Published on 25/10/2018
» A Canadian man has been arrested in Bangkok for allegedly selling bogus job apprenticeships abroad to Thai students at 150,000-baht each.
Cops arrest fake marriage suspects
Gary Boyle, Published on 24/09/2018
» After tying the knot earlier this year, Somjit and her husband visited the Wang Muang district office in Saraburi to register their marriage only to be told she was already married to a man she had never met.
Thais urged to drop charges over posts on tourist's rape complaint
Reuters, Published on 07/09/2018
» Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Thai authorities to drop legal cases against 12 people arrested over Facebook posts they shared about a British tourist's complaint that she had been raped on a holiday island.
Ex-monk Nen Kham sentenced to 114 years in jail
Gary Boyle, Published on 10/08/2018
» The Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced former monk Nen Kham to 114 years in jail for deceiving 29 people into donating to bogus Buddhism and disaster relief projects and using the money to buy a jet and luxury cars.