Police raid Pattaya pub for overstayers
published : 25 Apr 2023 at 09:06
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chaiyot Pupattanapong
Police raided a nightclub in Pattaya late on Sunday looking for overstayers and drug users, but the foreigners there had current visas and all customers tested drug-free.
The 10.30pm raid on the Hollywood Pub in Soi Phet Trakul, Bang Lamung district, was part of a crackdown on foreigners overstaying their visas and entering the country illegally.
About 300 Thai and foreign customers were in the pub when police arrived.
Police separated the customers into groups of Thais and foreigners, males and females, before checking their ID cards and passports as well as testing their urine for drugs.
None of the foreigners - 81 Chinese, 28 Hong Kong Chinese, 27 South Korean, three Taiwanese and two Lao nationals - were found in breach of immigration law or to be using illegal drugs.
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Vocabulary
- crackdown: strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity - การใช้กำลังสลายผู้ประท้วง
- illegally: in a way that is against the law - อย่างผิดกฎหมาย
- immigration: dealing with people entering and leaving the country - การตรวจคนเข้าเมือง
- in breach of: failing to follow a law or rule - ละเมิดกฎข้อบังคับ
- national: a citizen of a particular country - ประชาชน
- overstay: stay in a country for longer than you are allowed to stay, not leaving when your visa to stay in the country ends -
- raid: to forcefully and suddenly enter a place to catch criminals or to search for something like drugs - ใช้กำลังเข้าค้นสถานที่หรือ จับกุมคนร้าย
- separate: to keep or put apart - แยก
- urine: liquid waste passed from your body - น้ำปัสสาวะ
