Crackdown to wipe out foreign business abuses and ownership on Koh Phangan & Koh Samui intensifies

Crackdown to wipe out foreign business abuses and ownership on Koh Phangan & Koh Samui intensifies

October 21, 2025

Crime, Culture, Economy, Living, Media, Thailand:

Thai police intensify an unprecedented crackdown on illegal foreign land ownership and business on Koh Phangan and Koh Samui, ending nominee arrangements, enforcing strict compliance… Read More ›

Horror motorbike crash leaves German wife dead and her husband fighting for life in Khao Lak Phang-nga

Horror motorbike crash leaves German wife dead and her husband fighting for life in Khao Lak Phang-nga

October 21, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Thailand:

Horror in Khao Lak as a German woman, 63, is killed and her husband critically injured when a speeding pickup strikes their motorbike on Phang-nga’s… Read More ›

High powered, secretive meeting chaired by PM agrees robust action against Cambodian networks

High powered, secretive meeting chaired by PM agrees robust action against Cambodian networks

October 21, 2025

Crime, Culture, Economy, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

PM Anutin chairs a secret Government House meeting, orders crackdown on Thai networks linked to Cambodian scams, vows to revoke citizenship of dual nationals involved,… Read More ›

Popular expats figure Barry Kenyon killed in Pattaya on Saturday evening last in freak motorbike crash

Popular expats figure Barry Kenyon killed in Pattaya on Saturday evening last in freak motorbike crash

October 20, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Thailand:

Popular Pattaya expat Barry Kenyon, 84, former British consul, journalist, and community figure, dies in shocking motorbike crash while crossing busy Thappraya Road Saturday night,… Read More ›

Police racing to verify disturbing reports of Belarusian model alleged to have been taken by scammers

Police racing to verify disturbing reports of Belarusian model alleged to have been taken by scammers

October 20, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Thailand:

Thai police are urgently probing claims that Belarusian model Vera Kravchova was lured to Thailand, trafficked into Myanmar, enslaved in a scam compound and died,… Read More ›

Nigerian arrested with 10 other foreigners who tested positive for illicit drugs in dawn Bangkok pub raid

Nigerian arrested with 10 other foreigners who tested positive for illicit drugs in dawn Bangkok pub raid

October 20, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Thailand:

Bangkok police carried out an intelligence-led raid on a Ratchathewi pub, arresting a Nigerian drug pusher and 10 foreigners who tested positive for illicit drugs,… Read More ›

Thaksin serves his prison term as a teacher to inmates at Khlong Prem without further pardon

Thaksin serves his prison term as a teacher to inmates at Khlong Prem without further pardon

October 20, 2025

Culture, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Thaksin Shinawatra has ruled out seeking another royal pardon and is serving his one-year sentence at Klong Prem Prison, teaching fellow inmates, keeping disciplined, maintaining… Read More ›

Thailand and Cambodia face danger from ‘Dragon Head’ the Chinese mafia leader behind the scams

Thailand and Cambodia face danger from ‘Dragon Head’ the Chinese mafia leader behind the scams

October 20, 2025

Crime, Culture, Economy, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Thailand and Cambodia face a major threat from Dragon Head, the Chinese mafia boss, as Chen Zhi faces US charges exposing scams, political links and… Read More ›

Crazy foreigner clambers for the roof in Phuket. This time it was an intoxicated Dane, a former professional boxer

Crazy foreigner clambers for the roof in Phuket. This time it was an intoxicated Dane, a former professional boxer

October 19, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Thailand:

Chaos erupted in Phuket as a drunken former Danish boxer climbed rooftops in Kata, shouting and risking his life. Police worked carefully to calm him,… Read More ›

Pakistani tourist, reportedly a policeman, brutalised a 25 year old sex worker in Phuket and robbed her

Pakistani tourist, reportedly a policeman, brutalised a 25 year old sex worker in Phuket and robbed her

October 19, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Thailand:

Pakistani tourist, reportedly a police officer, brutally attacked and robbed a 25-year-old transgender sex worker in Phuket after arranging to meet her online. He was… Read More ›

Horror story of Belarusian woman taken in Bangkok by Burmese scam compound gang being investigated

Horror story of Belarusian woman taken in Bangkok by Burmese scam compound gang being investigated

October 19, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Thailand:

Belarusian model Vera Kravchova, 26, vanished after a Bangkok job offer. She was trafficked to a Myanmar scam camp, enslaved, and reportedly killed. Her family… Read More ›

Raids on foreign owned hotels on Koh Phangan carry on with three Israelis arrested and a fourth sought

Raids on foreign owned hotels on Koh Phangan carry on with three Israelis arrested and a fourth sought

October 19, 2025

Crime, Culture, Economy, Living, Media, Thailand:

Immigration police raid Koh Phangan hotels, arrest three Israelis and pursue a fourth, targeting illegal nominee firms controlling resorts. Eight people were detained in total,… Read More ›

Fears the Bhumjaithai Party has ensnared the People’s Party and any hope of real Constitutional reform 

Fears the Bhumjaithai Party has ensnared the People’s Party and any hope of real Constitutional reform 

October 18, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Bhumjaithai Party exploits Senate control to block Pheu Thai and limit People’s Party influence, threatening meaningful constitutional reform, shaping the 2026 election, as ongoing investigations… Read More ›

Israeli who demanded a refund after a massage accused of snatching temple offering at Pattaya massage shop

Israeli who demanded a refund after a massage accused of snatching temple offering at Pattaya massage shop

October 18, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Thailand:

Israeli tourist in Pattaya demanded a refund after a Thai massage, then seized a temple donation envelope. Locals and motorcycle taxi drivers chased him down.… Read More ›

Former Pheu Thai leader welcomes return of Ex Democrat Party PM Abhisit back to frontline politics

Former Pheu Thai leader welcomes return of Ex Democrat Party PM Abhisit back to frontline politics

October 18, 2025

Culture, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Former PM Abhisit Vejjajiva returns as Democrat Party leader, warmly welcomed by ex-Pheu Thai chief Dr. Cholnan Srikaew, promising democratic reform, youth engagement, and renewed… Read More ›

Cambodia lashes out at Anutin’s call to South Korean President Lee Jae-myung as internal interference

Cambodia lashes out at Anutin’s call to South Korean President Lee Jae-myung as internal interference

October 17, 2025

Crime, Culture, Economy, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Cambodia lashes out at PM Anutin’s call to South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, accusing Thailand of interfering in its internal affairs while pledging to help… Read More ›

Evil Romance scammers break the hearts of lonely middle-aged women in the Kingdom’s Northeast

Evil Romance scammers break the hearts of lonely middle-aged women in the Kingdom’s Northeast

October 17, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Thailand:

Ruthless Thai romance scammers in the Northeast are fleecing lonely middle-aged women, taking tens of thousands of baht for fake foreign husbands, leaving victims blocked… Read More ›

Cyber police and Money Laundering agency seek UK and US co-operation targeting Cambodian networks

Cyber police and Money Laundering agency seek UK and US co-operation targeting Cambodian networks

October 17, 2025

Crime, Culture, Economy, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Thai cyber police and money laundering investigators seek to join forces with US and UK authorities in a sweeping crackdown on a powerful Cambodian scam… Read More ›

Kla Tham MP dismisses unproven scam centre claims about Deputy Prime Minister Thamanat Prompow

Kla Tham MP dismisses unproven scam centre claims about Deputy Prime Minister Thamanat Prompow

October 17, 2025

Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Kla Tham Party MP Pai Lik defends Deputy PM Thamanat Prompow against unverified Cambodian Scam Centre scam claims. He calls the accusations baseless and challenges… Read More ›

Fears grow among foreign business owners after Koh Phangan blitz sees German, French and Israelis held

Fears grow among foreign business owners after Koh Phangan blitz sees German, French and Israelis held

October 17, 2025

Crime, Culture, Economy, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Koh Phangan sees a dramatic crackdown as Thai authorities arrest German, French and Israeli nationals for running unlicensed hotels, restaurants and tours via Thai nominees.… Read More ›

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