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Malaysian Muslim Woman’s Beer Drinking Punishment to be Reduced A Malaysian Muslim woman who is known as a model had faced a caning for drinking beer in a case that made headlines around the world has had her sentence diminished to community service, her father announced on Thursday. Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 33, was sentenced [...]

Visitors to Chiang Mai and Phukett are being warned of the existence of vacation club scams where tourists agree to attend a 90 minute presentation by a “vacation club” where they are given presentation offering to save them money on future hotel and resort bookings. The sales people seek to get the tourists to immediately [...]

Criminal Activity in Thailand Faces the Law Thailand’s Immigration Bureau has initiated an operation to drive out hundreds of alien criminals that are currently living in Thailand. Bureau administrator Wuthi Liptapallop said Thailand was known internationally as a safe place for criminals because of its relatively easy-going visa policies. ”I don’t want Thailand to be [...]

Teachers Fed Up With Killings Thailand’s Confederation of Teachers in the southern border provinces on Tuesday demanded that the government to increase security for teachers. The request was made after Samrit Panthadet, 52, an instructor of Bango Yimeng School in Kapho area of Pattani, was shot dead and his body set aflame. The homicide happened [...]

Derailed Train in Bangkok Raises Eyebrows A train derailment has occurred at Bang Sue station in Bangkok after a switching mistake. No injuries were reported. a train bound from Bangkok to Kaeng Khoi in Saraburi was forced off the rails Sunday around sunrise when a second train was switched to the same line too early, [...]

Tourists Turn Away From Thailand International tourist arrivals to Thailand will diminish by 38% to 1.5 million this year due to the doggedness of global economic troubles and local political volatility. This is according to The Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA). Surapol Sritrakul, the association’s president, said advance reservations for the high season had [...]

Thai Train Topcat Talks Tough to Striking Strikers The director of Thailand’s state railway system has fire unceremoniously six staff at Hat Yai station as well as two outspoken officials of the railway union. All eight were removed because of the obstruction of train services in the lower South. The State railway is preparing to [...]

Rail Strike Goes On and On Thailand’s rail strike is continuing to cause havoc. Staff who have walked off their jobs in the South will be facing legal steps from the government to make certain that normal working standards are preserved, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told reporters on Monday. He acknowledged the workers right to [...]

Thailand’s Trains Travel on Troubled Tracks Senior maintenance technicians on Thailand’s State owned rail system; some with more than 20 years’ experience declare that the system is afflicted by a dearth of appropriate extra parts. They said experienced mechanics were attempting to meet impracticable requirements to continue running dilapidated equipment in service. The SRT has [...]