Body of tourist who drowned while rafting in Phang Nga found
A BIG search for the body of an Iranian tourist who drowned while white water rafting on Song Preak River in Phang Nga province at around 3 p.m. yesterday (Mar. 29) was finally found today, Amarin TV said. Mr. Javad Behzadifar, 42, drowned and disappeared after his rubber dinghy sank at a concrete bridge […]
Read MoreAnutin orders legal action against Israeli tourist who has tested negative again
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today (Dec. 23) the Israeli tourist who fled quarantine at a Sukhumvit hotel and then went to Pattaya and on to Koh Samui where he has now tested negative for Covid-19 twice must still be prosecuted for refusing to wait for the initial test result that […]
Read MoreIsraeli tourist claims being cleared of infection by second test on Koh Samui
THE Israeli tourist who fled a hotel in Sukhumvit area while waiting for his Covid test result that turned out positive and then went to Pattaya and on to Koh Samui surrendered to police on the island this afternoon but said he was not infected according to a second test he underwent on the […]
Read MorePolice chasing infected Israeli tourist who escaped from Sukhumvit hotel
THAI police are chasing an Israeli male tourist who is infected with Covid-19 and fled the hotel in Sukhumvit area where he was quarantined first going to Pattaya then heading for the South, Amarin TV and Sanook.com said today (Dec. 22). The tourist, identified as Mr. Ohad, had arrived in Thailand on December 17 […]
Read MoreHotel worker who served Omicron-infected American tests positive
OF THE 17 people at high risk of contracting the Omicron variant of coronavirus after having contacts with the American tourist who is the country’s first case, one has tested positive for infection but the variant is still being ascertained, Siam Rath newspaper said today ( Dec. 7). Deputy Public Health Minister Satit Pitutecha […]
Read MoreSuspect says sorry to murdered Swiss woman’s family and all Thais
THE suspect in the murder of the Swiss woman tourist at a Phuket waterfall on Tuesday August 3 confessed to the crime via video conference and said he did it because he needed money as he had lost his job while also apologising to her family and all Thai people for the crime, Sanook.com […]
Read MoreSuspect in rape, murder of Swiss woman in Phuket arrested
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Suwat Jangyodsuk told reporters today (August 7) that a suspect in the rape and murder of a Swiss woman tourist at Phuket’s Ton Ao Yon waterfall on Tuesday August 3 had been arrested, Sanook.com said. However he refused to reveal the details of the suspect held in the rape […]
Read MoreFamily of five dies in Doi Inthanon accident
A SAD ACCIDENT occurred in Chiang Mai this afternoon (Nov.20) after a pickup truck carrying a family of five, the couple and their three daughters, overturned while coming down from the top of Thailand’s highest mountain Doi Inthanon, Sanook.com reported. The accident occurred at 12.50 p.m. when the Bangkok-registered black pickup truck flipped over on […]
Read MoreChinese millionaire tourists first to fly in on private jet
SEVEN Chinese millionaires are ready to fly to Thailand on a private jet as soon as the Foreign Ministry approves the Special Tourist Visa for this class of visitors with this being the only official hurdle remaining as everything else is fully now ready, Thai Quote and Sanook.com reported today (Sept. 29, 2020). Mr. Pipat […]
Read MoreUzbek tourist plunges to death at waterfall
A YOUNG UZBEK man who travelled from Phuket to Ranong province together with six Russian friends died today (Sept. 5) after falling off the second level of the Ngao waterfall, Khaosod newspaper reported. Mr. Chalit Sinrojthanakorn, head of Namtok Ngao National Park where the waterfall is located, said the five male and two female tourists […]
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