Sparklers on champagne bottles blamed for deadly Swiss bar fire
By AFP and published by CNA Crans-Montana, Switzerland – Sparklers held under a foam-clad ceiling likely ignited a deadly blaze that killed 40 New Year’s revellers in a Swiss ski bar, authorities said on Friday (Jan. 2), but the bar owner insisted that all safety standards were followed. Investigators working to get to the […]
Read MoreSeveral dead as fire ravages bar in Swiss ski resort town Crans-Montana: Police
Geneva – A fire ripped through a crowded bar in the luxury Swiss ski resort town of Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve, killing and injuring several people, police said early on Thursday (Jan. 1). As revellers rang in the new year, a “fire of undetermined origin” broke out in a bar popular with tourists, […]
Read More4 bar girls stabbed in Japanese bar-restaurant fight
A FIGHT between bar girls of one Japanese bar-restaurant in Sukhumvit Soi 23 and the owners of another similar establishment nearby led to four of them being stabbed and hospitalised, TV Channel 7 and Thai Rath newspaper said this evening (June 20). The fight broke out at 1.40 a.m. last night with Thonglor police […]
Read MoreWestern engineer assaults Pattaya bar women in row over bill
TWO WOMEN working at a beer bar filed a complaint against a Western engineer at Pattaya City police station this afternoon (Apr. 7) for beating them up in a row over a bill and submitted a surveillance camera clip to support their accusation, TV Channel 7 said this evening. Ms. Anchisa, 55, manager of […]
Read MoreIllegal Bangkok bar raided, 100-plus drug users found
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A BAR IN BANGKOK was raided in the wee hours today (Dec.10) with 122 bargoers found to have used drugs, police said. A task force of police and administrative officials raided the boisterous bar named Sonic on Pradit Manutham road in Lard Prao district at 2.20 a.m. and managed to […]
Read MoreMakkasan police station chief transferred after raids on illegal pub, karaoke bar
FOLLOWING raids on a pub and a karaoke bar operating illegally in New Petchburi road area with the latter exclusively for Chinese tourists and some found to have taken drugs Makkasan police station chief and deputy chief were today (June 3) transferred with an investigation launched, Matichon newspaper said. Maj. Gen. Attaporn Wongsiripreeda, commander […]
Read More‘Big Joke’ going to Phuket to probe sex trafficking of teen girls
DEPUTY National Police Chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, whose nickname is Big Joke, is heading for Phuket to expand investigation of sex trafficking teenage girls after two suspects were arrested in a bar raid and six victims rescued, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Mar. 17). Pol. Maj. Gen. Wasan Techaakasen, deputy chief of […]
Read MorePolice shut 3 pubs in Sukhumvit, Thonglor area
POLICE today (August 11) shut a bar in Sukhumvit Soi 22 and two pubs in Thonglor area for operating and serving alcohol without the proper permits with the latter two also faulted for flouting Covid control measures, Naewna newspaper said. Deputy National Police Chief Pol. Gen. Roy Ingkapairote ordered the closure of Otto Bar in […]
Read MoreReopening of entertainment venues put off to Jan. 15
THE Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) today (Nov. 12) postponed the reopening of entertainment venues such as pubs, bars and karaoke lounges from Dec. 1, 2021 to Jan. 15, 2022, Amarin TV said. It had been expected that these entertainment venues would be allowed to reopen on Dec. 1, 2021 after the country opened […]
Read More