Tag: Suvarnabhumi International Airport
Tour guides arrested for attacking budget Chinese tourists
PATTAYA - Two tour guides were arrested for allegedly assaulting and threatening a Chinese family that refused to buy an expensive package-tour option.
Chaitoon Sroisaeng,...
Disease Control Dept offers free tuberculosis tests to taxi drivers
BANGKOK The Department of Disease Control (DDC) is offering free tuberculosis screening tests to taxi drivers at Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
In celebration of the upcoming...
Customs seized 17 million baht worth of African ivory
Customs officials at Suvarnabhumi international airport’s cargo terminal on Sunday arrested a Gambian as he showed up to claim eight crates of uncut stones...
Japanese woman nabbed with over 50 protected animals in her luggage...
A Japanese woman was arrested at Suvarnabhumi international airport on Tuesday night after airport officials found more than 50 protected animals of different species...
Airport Rail Link runs every 12 minutes during weekends
Airport Rail Link has adjusted the timetables of the train service from the city to the Suvarnabhumi international airport and vice versa during the...
Officials start tightening up taxi service at Don Meuang
The Land Transportation Department and relevant agencies have started regulating taxi service at Don Meuang international airport to make sure that the cabbies will...
Suvarnabhumi revamps control to handle growing number of flights
BANGKOK – Suvarnabhumi International Airport has prepared to accommodate an expected throng of travelers during this Songkran holiday. Aeronautical Radio...
Suvarnabhumi organizes event ‘Time to Celebrate 2016’
BANGKOK - Suvarnabhumi International Airport is presenting the event 'Time to Celebrate 2016' from now until January 12th, while welcoming 170,000 passengers expected during...
Accused Internet fraudster caught minutes before fleeing Thailand by air
A transvestite accused of using the Internet to bilk about 50 people out of 2 million baht was arrested by Pattaya police just minutes...
No funds in sight, but state railroad keeps talking high-speed links...
Long before Suvarnabhumi International Airport even opened in 2006, Thai officials have been talking about linking it with Pattaya by high-speed train. They’re still...
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Sinchai concedes defeat in still-unsettled Pattaya mayor race
While the winner of Sunday’s mayoral election has not even been unofficially announced, Sinchai Wattanasartsathorn conceded defeat and congratulated the city’s probable next mayor.
Unofficial...
Weekdays showing signs of life in Pattaya
Only weeks ago, Pattaya tourist businesses bemoaned weekdays. Not so much anymore.
Unlike a few months ago, when weekends and holidays seemed busy in Pattaya,...
Pattaya area kindergarten opens for new term
Tiny tots in Takhiantia subdistrict north of Pattaya went to school for the first time as classrooms reopened for a new year.
The public Takientia...
Le Tenor Yves Baron at a PCEC Words and Music Meeting
Yves Baron was the presenter at the May 18 meeting of the Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC). The PCEC periodically invites musicians to a...
Thailand starts screening arrivals for monkeypox at airports today
The Department of Disease Control has set up an emergency operations center (EOC) to cope with monkeypox as officials concerned are screening arrivals from...