45 arrested partying in restaurant
published : 14 Dec 2021 at 11:53
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
Fifteen Thais and 30 foreigners were arrested while partying after hours at a restaurant in Bangkok's Hua Mark area early Monday morning.
Nakhon Bar Bangkok restaurant was raided by immigration and Hua Mark police about 1.45am.
There were 45 customers, 15 Thais and 30 foreigners, eating and drinking.
All the foreigners were from African countries, mainly Nigeria, Congo and Cameroon. Fifteen were not carrying passports or had passports without immigration entry stamps.
A 41-year-old woman identified herself as the operator of the restaurant.
She said the restaurant had been opened with the proper permits to sell alcoholic drinks, but had been closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
All the doors and windows were covered with metal shutters to prevent the music disturbing people outside, she said.
She was charged with selling alcoholic drinks without permission, selling food and drink in unhygienic conditions and being open beyond the hours set by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
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Vocabulary
- charge: to accuse someone officially of committing a crime - ตั้งข้อกล่าวหา
- disturb: to interrupt somebody or cause them to stop when they are trying to work, sleep, etc - รบกวน
- identified (verb): named, searched for a discovered - ระบุ
- immigration (bureau): the government agency dealing with people entering and leaving the country and those who want to live there - สำนักงานตรวจคนเข้าเมือง
- operator (noun): a person or company that runs a business - ผู้ดำเนินกิจการทางธุรกิจ, ผู้ประกอบธุรกิจ
- permission: allowing someone to do something - การอนุญาต,การอนุมัติ,การยินยอม
- permit: an official document that gives you permission to do something - ใบอนุญาต
- raid: to forcefully and suddenly enter a place to catch criminals or to search for something like drugs - ใช้กำลังเข้าค้นสถานที่หรือ จับกุมคนร้าย
- shutters: wooden or metal covers that can be closed over the outside of a window to keep out light or protect the windows from damage - บานเกล็ดหน้าต่าง
- unhygienic: not clean and therefore likely to cause disease or infection - ไม่ถูกสุขอนามัย
