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    Chiang Rai Police Find Nearly Three Million Meth Pills Hidden Aboard Bus 

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    Published on 01-28-2019 08:05 AM
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    CHIANG RAI – Two tour bus drivers were arrested in Chiang Rai province in northern Thailand on Sunday on charge of trafficking nearly three million tablets ...
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    Phuket tour speedboat takes on water, capsizes en route to Phi Phi 

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    Published on 01-28-2019 05:29 AM
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    The Phuket Marine Office was informed by staff at Chalong Pier at about 11:40am that the tour speedboat Aphitada 1 was taking on water and had called for assistance, reports Thai-language newspaper Matichon. The boat had departed Chalong Pier earlier that morning with 45 people on board – 43 of them tourists on a tour around Maithon Island and Phi Phi Island, said the report. ...
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    Chiang Rai Police Find Nearly Three Million Meth Pills Hidden Aboard Bus 

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    Published on 01-27-2019 08:04 AM
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    CHIANG RAI – Two tour bus drivers were arrested in Chiang Rai province in northern Thailand on Sunday on charge of trafficking nearly three million tablets of methamphetamine hidden aboard, said a police general on Monday. The tour bus drivers, identified as Phrom Rattanakrachang and Thanathip Rattanakrachang, had allegedly trafficked ...
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    Bodies found weighed down by cement near Thailand river were missing activists 

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    Published on 01-27-2019 05:12 AM
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    Two bodies that washed ashore from a Thailand river in December were the corpses of anti-government activists, police have revealed. The bodies of the two people — known by the pseudonyms Puchana and Kasalong — were found on Dec. 27 and Dec. 28 on the shore of the Mekong River, wrapped in brown sacks along with blocks of cement. The real names of those found were not immediately clear, ...
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    Police insist no Chinese mafia in Pattaya 

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    Published on 01-27-2019 04:54 AM
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    Just as they did during the peak of the area’s Russian-tourism boom, local law enforcement officials again are insisting there is no Chinese organized crime in Pattaya. Top Pattaya, Tourist and Immigration police officers asserted that there are no “mafia” or “triad” gangs operating in Pattaya, despite recent Thai media claims to the contrary following a brawl among Chinese nationals in a Pattaya restaurant. Most Chinese come to Pattaya in tour groups and don’t operate businesses here, Pattaya’s police chief Pol. Col. Apichai Kroppech said. Tourist Pol. Lt. Col. Piyapong Ensarn said there were some Chinese business owners, but most operated restaurants while others have companies in ...
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    Thai Court Sentences Burmese Woman to Death for Laundering Drug Money 

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    BANGKOK – A Criminal Court in Thailand has handed down the death sentence to a Burmese (Myanmar) woman for laundering dirty money and her connection with the methamphetamine trade. The Thai court passed sentence on Myint Thein Aye, 43, after finding her guilty of several counts including laundering money from meth that she possessed, trafficked and financed. She was arrested in November 2017 ...
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    Thailand detains a total of 6,971 foreigners suspected of crime 

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    Published on 01-27-2019 04:21 AM
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    The Thai government has launched a crackdown on foreigners suspected of various crimes, media reports said on Friday. More than 500 foreigners were arrested on Friday for overstaying their visa, entering the country using illegal means and other crimes, Thai police told journalists, according to the daily The Nation. The police launched search operations at 217 locations of the popular tourist destination. “It was part of the government’s crackdown on transnational scammers, card skimmers and drug traffickers, as well as foreigners breaking immigration laws,” said ...
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