Korean college student dies after being kidnapped and tortured in Cambodia
By Korea Times A 22-YEAR-OLD Korean college student was found dead in Cambodia two weeks after travelling there for summer vacation. Authorities said he was kidnapped and tortured by a local crime group and died of cardiac arrest as a result. According to accounts by police and family members today (Oct. 10), the student, […]
Read MoreThai teachers raise cash to help deported Khmer student
TEACHERS of a school in Surin province raised 14,000 baht for a 13-year-old Cambodian schoolboy who was deported back to his homeland with his mother after an emotional scene at the school with the teachers crying as they hugged the boy before the police led him away, Amarin TV said this afternoon (Aug. 28 […]
Read MoreTransvestite hunted in brutal murder of student
POLICE are hunting for a transvestite in the brutal murder of a young university student who was badly assaulted before his body was set on fire at a dormitory in Bang Khen subdistrict, Nonthaburi city district, yesterday (Aug. 7), Amarin TV said today. Pol. Maj. Gen. Prathana Phaenpha, Nonthaburi provincial police chief, and Pol. […]
Read MoreDecomposed body of a woman found, suspected to be kidnapped Chinese student
A DECOMPOSED body of a woman has been found at a garbage dump in Chachoengsao province with police checking whether this is a missing Chinese student who was earlier kidnapped for ransom in Bang Rak area of Bangkok,TV Channel 7 and Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon (July 13). The missing Chinese woman was […]
Read MorePrinn get 2 years, 8 months in indecency case
THE Bangkok South Criminal Court has sentenced former Democrat Party deputy leader Prinn Panichphakdi to two years and eight months in jail without parole on charges of subjecting an 18-year-old student to indecent exposure at a restaurant in 2021, Matichon newspaper said late last night (Aug. 22). Mr. Kosolwat Intuchanyong, deputy spokesman for the […]
Read MoreBMA removes all Co2 fire extinguishers, temporarily halts fire drills
FOLLOWING the explosion of a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher during a drill at a secondary school in Bangkok killing a student yesterday (June 23), the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA) today ordered the removal of these tanks that are mostly only kept at fire stations and differ from the dry chemical red fire extinguishers placed […]
Read MoreUpdate: Fire extinguisher that exploded did not have a safety valve
POLICE said a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher that exploded during a fire drill at a secondary school in Bangkok killing one student and injuring 29 others was a reusable one but not fitted with a safety valve, Thai Rath and Matichon newspapers said this afternoon (June 23). Metropolitan Police Chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Thiti […]
Read MoreYok explains her actions after termination of student status
SOON AFTER Triam Udom Suksa Pattanakarn School issued a statement late this afternoon (June 17) that 15-year-old Thanalop Phalanchai, or Yok, no longer has student status for not complying with the condition that a parent must hand over the student at the start of the new school year, she clarified her actions in a […]
Read MoreMet police rescanning background of Chinese nationals
THE gruesome kidnap-murder of a Chinese music student last week has led to Metropolitan police rescanning the background of Chinese nationals who have come to Thailand and look into pending cases, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Apr. 5). Pol. Maj. Gen. Noppasin Poolsawat, deputy chief of Metropolitan Police Bureau, said all metropolitan units had […]
Read MoreMurdered woman likely Chinese kidnap victim: Police
METROPOLITAN police suspect that the woman who was murdered and her body dumped in an irrigation canal of a deserted banana plantation in Nonthaburi province could be a Chinese student who was kidnapped for ransom on Tuesday night (Mar. 28), Thai Rath newspaper said last night (Apr. 1). The swollen body of the dead […]
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