September 25th, 2007 by admin
FOREIGN BUSINESS ACT GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION
40,000 suspected of breaches
The Business Development Department is in the process of inspecting as many as 40,000 companies to see if they have used nominee structures to hold shares for foreign investors _ a practice prohibited by the Foreign Business Act.
According to department director-general Kanissorn Navanugraha, the investigation would continue even [...]
September 25th, 2007 by admin
Thai courts issues new arrest warrants for former PM Thaksin and wife in securities case
source: International Herald Tribune September 3, 2007
BANGKOK, Thailand: A Thai court issued arrest warrants Monday for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife over their alleged violations of stock-trading laws.
It is the second set of warrants issued in the past [...]
September 25th, 2007 by admin
German man murdered in Pattaya
A 59-year-old German national was murdered over the weekend in his home at Thailand’s Pattaya beach resort, Thai police said Monday.
The body of Kurt Schmolke of Lahnstein on the Rhein River in western Germany was discovered Sunday evening when police received reports of a fire at his home in Pattaya, 100 [...]
September 25th, 2007 by admin
Brits flee battle of the gays
source: The Sun UK September 01, 2007
SCORES of teenage male prostitutes and transvestites battled with clubs, knives and petrol bombs in a three-day “gay war”.
Police arrested two young men after one bar was set ablaze and another was completely ransacked in the Thailand resort of Pattaya.
Foreigners including British tourists fled [...]
September 15th, 2007 by admin
New buildings in certain zones to be required to be quake-proof
BANGKOK: — The Cabinet has approved a proposal of the Public Works and Town and Country Planning Department to require new buildings in areas, which could be affected by quakes, to have system to reduce effects from earthquakes.
Thossaporn Nuch-anong, director of the Environment Technology Division [...]
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