Davika Hoorne and Mario Maurer in ‘Pee Mak Phrakanong’ showing across Phuket. Their love is greater than war and death. Photo: The Nation
Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:54:54 PM
PHUKET: Thailand’s top grossing movie of all time, ‘Pee Mak Phrakanong’, stars five war buddies with black teeth and silly hairstyles. One still wears a toddler’s topknot of the Rattanakosin period, explaining, “I got sick...
PHUKET: The illegal taxi driver accused of holding a 19-year-old Chinese tourist captive in his vehicle for five hours has been charged with sexual assault, the Phuket City Police chief confirmed.
Paitoon Kruain, 32, who operated an illegal taxi picking up tourists at Phuket International Airport, presented himself to police for questioning last Saturday (story here).
After intensive questioning by police – the interrogation on Saturday lasted six hours – Mr Paitoon was taken into custody and is now being held at Phuket Prison.
“Mr Paitoon has been charged with deprivation of liberty and with being under the influence of drugs,” Phuket City Police chief Sermphan Sirikong told the Phuket Gazette. “He has now also been charged with sexual assault."
The sexual assault charge follows the Chinese tourist giving her statement to Phuket Provincial Court on...
PHUKET: A Phuket construction worker died yesterday after falling from scaffolding at a house being built in Thalang.
Thalang Police were called to the site, in Soi Lak Maung in Baan Muang Mai, at about 10:30am.
At the scene they found Manit Mongkhon, 42, from Nan Province in Northern Thailand, dead from a fatal head injury.
Coworkers Sataphon Phaojumroon, 49, and Manoo Kumsorn, 65, told police Mr Manit fell from scaffolding on the second floor.
“The three of us were working inside the house. Manit was on the second floor scaffolding welding steel while the two of us were downstairs handing steel and equipment to him,” said Mr Sataphon.
“He suddenly fell and hit his head really hard on the floor. We believe that he fell because of an electric shock.” Mr Manoo added.
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British soldier beheaded in suspected Islamist attack
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PHUKET: A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday, in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack.
PHUKET: More than 30 vendors with stores located opposite Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket Town have appealed to the Phuket City Mayor to reverse the decision to install no parking signs in front of their shops.
The new signs, which prohibit parking in the area from 7am to 6pm, were installed on May 16 as a way to try to alleviate...
PHUKET: Residents of a village in Nakhon Sri Thammarat are queuing up to visit a household where a pig has just given birth to an unusual piglet.The mother of the “elepig” gave birth to a litter of 15...
PHUKET: A shambolic fake monk recently attracted the suspicions of local people in Nakhon Ratchasima Province – and the attention of the police – by trying to collect alms in the afternoon.Villagers c...
PHUKET: A 35-year-old Indian Sikh is in police custody after allegedly tricking villagers in Surin Province into believing he was a yogi with magic powers.Balvinder Singh extracted thousands of baht f...
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