Bangkok Post: news

• German tourist in death leap

  02 May 2013 : Sawangboriboon volunteers and a Pattaya Memorial Hospital team rushed to Central Festival Pattaya Beach after learning that German national Christian Klaski had climbed over a rail on the fifth floor and jumped to the ground. He died later in hospital having sustained serious head injuries. A security guard alerted police. The 34-year-old victim was identified from a police report in his possession concerning a lost passport.

• Motorbike thieves idled

  01 May 2013 :

  Nongprue police have arrested five suspected members of a motorbike theft gang and confiscated nine stolen bikes, various spare parts and a collection of illegal methamphetamine tablets. All of the gang members reportedly pleaded guilty. However, the gang ringleader, known as Thanasak, escaped the police dragnet and is being hunted down.

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  Student drug dealer caught in sting

  18 Apr 2013 : Concerned about college of technology students involved in selling prohibited substances, police used an undercover agent to arrange to meet 25 year old Thongchai Wiansamut outside a petrol station in Banglamung. Regular police then seized the suspect who took police to his home where they found 200 gms of the ice drug in six sealed plastic bags.

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  Jealousy leads to nasty stabbing

  18 Apr 2013 : A sixteen year old was beaten and stabbed near Soi 6, Pattaya Beach Road, after a drinking party with his uncle and three young women who elected to join them.

• Dead guard hidden in bushes

  18 Apr 2013 : An inebriated senior security guard hit on a panic plan after bludgeoning to death one of his staff.

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  Stepbrothers fight to the death

  18 Apr 2013 : A large crowd gathered at Soi 12, South Pattaya, after learning that a man had been stabbed to death.

• Huge debts lead to suicide

  18 Apr 2013 : Police rushed to an apartment near the Thepprasit Road boxing stadium after receiving reports that a man had been found with a hole in his face. Songla Ninkampheng, aged 66, was discovered in a very bloody state with an 11mm handgun lying nearby.

• Nongprue police station upgraded

  18 Apr 2013 : The regional police commander of region two formally opened Nongprue police station at a ceremony to mark its establishment as a full police station rather than an ancillary unit of Banglamung police authority.

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  Compulsory insurance for expats and tourists?

  18 Apr 2013 : The government is considering forcing foreigners to buy health insurance before traveling to Thailand.

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