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Farang’ robs Karon bankKARON, PHUKET: Despite an intensive manhunt, police have yet to apprehend the Caucasian man who held up the Siam Commercial Bank branch on Patak Rd in Karon late yesterday afternoon, getting away with 420,000 baht in cash.
At the monthly Phuket Provincial Security Committee meeting held at the ST Hotel in Phuket City [...]
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CHON BURI: — A Thai woman and her Italian former husband were arrested yesterday for planning the murder of a retired German policeman in Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district, and police are hunting for a Frenchman alleged to have acted as the gunman.
The woman, Rungnapa Sri-det, 32, was also previously married [...]
Thailand’s Shin Plans on Low-Cost Satellite TV
The DTV provider plans to make antennae obsolete, with a goal to sell 2 million satellite dishes by 2009
BANGKOK: — Thailand’s Shin Broadband Internet, a subsidiary of Shin Satellite, is offering low-cost household satellite television dishes, and hopes the new business unit would generate 60% of its total revenue [...]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand has recently instructed the Embassies and Consulates of Thailand across the world to review the visa fees in order to reflect the effects of exchange rate fluctuation between Thai baht and other local currencies during the pass three years (2003-2007). As a result, the Royal Thai Embassy in [...]
Police who promised to end the operations of the operations of cheating unlicensed black-plate taxis and illegal tour guides at Suvarnabhumi airport by mid-June have admitted a first-round defeat - but will try again.
Last month, Pol Maj-Gen Wut Liptapanlop, deputy chief of Police Region 1, vowed a major crackdown that would take the touts and [...]
