PATTAYA police are investigating an Australian man’s fall from the sixth floor of a hotel after his face was slashed with a knife today (Sep. 17), Amarin TV said. Pol. Lt. Sonthaya Khanthrap, deputy inspector of Pattaya City police station, along with investigation officers, Pattaya Tourist Police officers, rescue workers from the Sawang Boriboon
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GRC decorative panel falls from Pattaya high-rise injuring tourist
A GLASSFIBRE reinforced concrete (GRC) decorative panel fell from a luxury condominium in Khao Phra Tamnak area of South Pattaya last evening (May 28) injuring an Australian man holidaying there, TV Channel 7 and Thai Rath newspaper said. Injured when the GRC panel fell from the building’s 38th floor was Mr. Paul Denis Smith
Read moreAussie TikTok influencer tests Phuket fruit vendor’s generosity
AUSTRALIAN social media star Luke Erwin shared a short video on TikTok where he tested the generosity of a Phuket vendor by asking for free fruit as he was hungry but did not have any money to pay and was immediately given one, Sanook.com said this afternoon (May 18). The generous fruit vendor who
Read moreAbandoned, ailing Australian woman gets help
AN AILING elderly Australian woman abandoned at a hostel in Bangkok’s Bang Rak district by an unidentified foreign man was helped by a city councillor who got her admitted to Klang Hospital for treatment, Matichon newspaper said this evening (Nov. 270. Mr. Viput Sriwaurai, a councillor for this district, said hostel staff contacted him
Read moreForeigner kills two teenage girls in Songkhla crash
AN AUSTRALIAN man driving a sport utility vehicle on a Songkhla road hit a motorcycle on which three female teenage students were riding, killing two of them and seriously injuring the third girl, Amarin TV said yesterday (Sept. 2). This TV channel’s reporters went to the spot of the accident on Chalatat road in
Read moreElderly Aussie rescued after getting lost in Koh Larn forest
A 77-year-old Australian man who got lost in the forest at Koh Larn, a small island 7.5 kilometres off Pattaya’s coast, was rescued last night after hours of search by a large team, Amarin TV said today (July 4). The unidentified Australian tourist had travelled to Koh Lan with 20 friends to see the
Read moreYoung Australian man falls to death from Phuket hotel
A YOUNG Australian man who came to Phuket with a group of 11 friends plunged to his death from a hotel room at Patong beach at 10 a.m. yesterday, Matichon newspaper said today (May 18). Pol. Lt. Col. Ekachai Siri, attached to the Tourist Police Bureau, said upon being informed of the death of Mr.Billy
Read moreAustralian slapped with charges for wrong-way driving over 30 kms
AN AUSTRALIAN man who faces charges for wrong-way driving his sedan over 30 kilometres from Chonburi to Rayong said he had got lost and after that the GPS system took him the wrong way, Sanook.com said today (Jan. 16). Police began investigating this incident after a video clip of a black Ford Mustang going
Read moreSuspected Australian child sex offender arrested in Mae Sot
By Channel NewsAsia AN AUSTRALIAN national accused of sexually assaulting Myanmar children in Thailand was arrested in the border province of Tak after six months on the run, according to the Tak Immigration Office. On June 2, Thai authorities managed to track down and arrest an Australian man identified as Adam James Fox in Mae
Read moreBoyfriend fails to save Australian man from plunging to death from condo
AN Australian man fell to his death from the eight floor of a condominium in Pattaya last night after his Thai boyfriend was unable to pull him back to the balcony after he jumped off, Sanook.com reported today (Jan. 9). When Pol. Capt. Sombat Kaewmoonmuk, deputy inspector of Mueang Pattaya police station, arrived at the
Read more‘Will not be bullied’: citizens around the world told to buy Australian wine
The Sydney Morning Herald London: Millions of people around the world are being urged to buy an Australian bottle of wine or two, as a way of showing Chinese President Xi Jinping that the world will not be intimidated by his “bullying of Australia”. The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), comprising more than 200 MPs
Read moreForeigner commits strange suicide in Pattaya
AN Australian man was found to have committed suicide in an unusual manner at a Pattaya apartment yesterday afternoon (July 4) with there being no trace of an intruder, Sanook.com reported this afternoon. At 4.30 p.m. Pol Lt Col Nithat Waenpradap, superintendent at Mueang Pattaya police station, rushed to the apartment upon getting word that
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