Latest News in Thailand

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 known as a [...]

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 on Monday [...]

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, according to [...]

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 been greatly [...]

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 fire more workers [...]

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 complain [...]

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 209 locomotives [...]

700,000 Baht Bomb Detector Fails Real Life Test
A Thai military team inspected a suspicious motorcycle with a GT200 bomb scanner, but the device did not detect a bomb. The bomb on board the motorcycle exploded about 15 minutes after the military squad had left the scene with their not so effective bomb detector. Online skeptics [...]