4 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 MorePolice moving to arrest 2 Japanese men in murder-mutilation of fellow countryman
THAI police are about to issue arrest warrants for two Japanese men who an eyewitness said murdered and dismembered a fellow countryman then dumped his body parts in deserted alleys at Bang Bua Thong, Nonthaburi, TV Channel 7 said today (Apr. 24). This case arose on Friday Apr. 19 when Bang Bua Thong police […]
Read MoreJapanese man chased by knife-wielding cabbie after dispute over not using the meter
GOING VIRAL on Thai social media is an account by a Japanese man on having to run for his life from a knife-wielding taxi driver after a dispute over the latter not turning on the meter, TV Channel 3’s 3PlusNews said this afternoon (Feb. 8). This Japanese man, only identified as X who has […]
Read MoreTwo Vietnamese charged with stealing from Japanese man
A MAN and a woman from Vietnam were arrested today (Jan. 15) on a charge of pickpocketing a Japanese man at Wat Phra Kaew together with two other accomplices who are still at large and using the stolen credit cards to buy almost 500,000 baht worth of goods, Matichon newspaper said. Deputy chief of […]
Read MoreHusband says dead Japanese woman was depressed
AFTER a young Japanese woman was found dead in a Chiang Mai hotel room this morning (July 31) her distraught husband told police that she was depressed and had previously tried to strangle herself with a hair dryer cord but he managed to save her life, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon. The unidentified […]
Read More2 Cambodians held for stealing Japanese passenger’s bag on arriving flight
SUVARNABHUMI Airport Tourist Police quickly arrested two Cambodian men after they stole a Japanese man’s bag on a flight arriving from Phnom Penh today (Jan. 18), TV Channel 7 said. The unidentified Japanese passenger had reported that two Cambodian men who were seated on the same row as him on this flight to Bangkok […]
Read MoreJapanese man commits harakiri in Chiang Mai
A STRESSED-OUT Japanese man was found to have committed suicide by disemboweling himself at a large house he shared with a Japanese family in Chiang Mai today (Nov. 27), Thai Rath newspaper said. At 8.25 a.m. Pol. Lt. Danurat Kantiya, an investigator at Maejo police station, San Sai district, was alerted of a foreigner […]
Read MoreJapan warns citizens of possible suicide bombings in Thailand, other SE Asian countries
THE Japanese embassy in Thailand sent an email on Sunday September 12 alerting its citizens in here to beware of suicide bombings in crowded places such as restaurants, hotels, markets, tourist attractions and religious places, Siam Rath newspaper said this afternoon (Sept. 14). Japanese people in Thailand were told if such visits were unavoidable […]
Read MoreMinistry: No minister visited Thonglor pub with Japanese envoy
THE Public Health Ministry today (April 4) came out to deny that any Thai minister had gone to a pub in Thonglor area with the Japanese ambassador who is infected with coronavirus and hospitalized but is in stable condition, Siam Rath newspaper said. Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, the director-general of the Disease Control Department, denied social […]
Read MoreJapanese Trump supporters rally in Tokyo ahead of Biden’s inauguration
By Reuters Staff and published by US News & World Report Tokyo: A small group of Japanese fans of Donald Trump took to the streets of Tokyo today (Jan.20), shouting support for the outgoing United States president hours before his successor Joe Biden is sworn into office. About 120 people joined the march in central […]
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