Acting Thai immigration chief Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang spoke to the Thai media yesterday commenting on the case of the two Americans who had been arrested in Pattaya after spray painting a pick-up and walls in Sampeng, Bangkok.

Lt-Gen Sompong said that they had both been fined 5,000 baht and would likely be deported within two days. They would then be blacklisted from returning to Thailand.

The 28 and 24 year olds have paid 10,000 baht damages to four Thai victims for their actions..

Another person who the couple met in Bangkok is being sought and investigations are still underway to see if the group caused damage elsewhere in Bangkok.

Source: INN News

Phanawatnan Kaimart, the President of the Innovation and Inventor Association of Thailand is the inventor of the Elide Fire. Elide Fire is a fire extinguishing ball using revolutionary technology that allows the ball to blow up when in contact with fire. The Elide Fire ball can extinguish a fire that is up to 10 square meters.

Phanawatnan and his team joined the 33rd World Genius Convention in Tokyo, Japan on 29 to 30 May 2019. The Elide Fire received the Gold Genius Award and the Tokyo Award Cup. This is an international award ceremony with Elide Fire being the first ever product of Thailand to receive an award from this institution.

Phanawatnan stated when arriving in Thailand after the impressive trip that the Thai people are very proud as this is an innovation developed by Thailand. The Elide Fire ball can extinguish flames immediately. International inventors have acknowledged the product and the Gold Genius Award is a result of such trust. This is a great start for the near future where more Thai inventions will be known on the international level.

Furthermore, for young inventors in Thailand to take your ideas into developing new technology and inventions to help solve problems found in today’s society. The Elide Fire ball has been constantly developed through a period of 18 years. The product itself has been tested by specialist abroad and has been accepted internationally as an innovative fire extinguisher.

Other awards Elide Fire has received includes Best Innovation Golden Medal from the Eureka Innovation Awards in Europe, Bronze Medal of Genius Award from Japan, WIPO Gold Medal Award, KIPA Gold Medal Award from South Korea, and more.

The Elide Fire can put out a fire within 3 to 10 seconds after direct contact with the flame. The ball itself is only 152 mm in diameter and weighs only 1.5 kg. The ball is so compact that it can be kept anywhere and used by anyone.

Source: Elide Fire, INN News

A retired policeman was murdered in a rented room he stayed with one of his five wives in Nakhon Pathom’s Muang district on Friday night, police said.

Weerachai Jirundorn, 75, a former officer with Muang Nakhon Pathom police, was killed inside his rented room in Moo 7 village in Tambon Suan Takrai.

His wife, Pornpen Phayabal, 51, told police that she went out for dinner and returned to the room to find Weerachai had been killed.

She said he had a big wound on his head as if he had been hit by a hard object and his neck had marks that indicated he might have been strangled with a cloth.

Pornpen said she earlier asked Weerachai to eat out with her but he wanted to stay home so she cooked him a meal and left. She returned to find him dead and the dinner was untouched.

Pol Col Piradej Charoendej, commander of the Muang Nakhon Pathom police station, said Weerachai had five wives, each of whom supports herself.

Piradej said Weerachai loaned money and police suspect the murder was motivated by a loan dispute. Jealousy wasn’t an issue because all of his wives know one another and did not quarrel, he said.

Source: The Nation News

Crime Suppression Division police have seized 10 imported luxury cars with forged vehicle registrations and false declarations worth about 120 million baht in total in the Central and East regions.   Some of the seized luxury cars had identification numbers taken from wrecked vehicles involved in crashes, said CSD chief Pol Maj Gen Jirabhop Bhuridej during a media briefing at the CSD’s head office..

(Photo by Varuth Hirunyatheb)

The CSD chief said those involved in the smuggling of imported vehicles had used various tactics to register the smuggled vehicles. Some of the cars were priced at 23 million baht each, he said.  Crime Suppression Division chief Pol Maj Gen Jirabhop Bhuridej shows the interior of a smuggled luxury car, one of the 10 with false registrations. 

CSD police began the investigation into the smuggling following complaints from people who noticed some of the licence plates matched those of their wrecked vehicles. The CSD also launched an investigation…

Source: bangkokpost.com

Footage posted to Facebook showed a man on a motorcycle standing on the seat and going along in downtown Chiang Mai.

 

Jenjira Suphan, 31, said she was with her husband taking their daughter to school. It was in the area of Moon Muang Road.

Pol Lt-Col Suphachai Jantra of the Chiang mai police said it was a rental bike and they had traced it to a member of the Tai Yai ethnic minority group who is aged about 20.

He has been issued with a summons and police would be seeking the top fine for negligent and dangerous riding and not wearing a helmet. 

Source: Daily News

A British man and a German man have been arrested accused of attempting to smuggle drugs onto the tourist island of Bali, Indonesian customs officials said.

Adam Scott was arrested at Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport late last month, customs chief Himawan Indarjono said.

He said officers seized a bottle with 655 Diazepam tablets, also known as Valium, from Mr Scott, a computer analyst who arrived from Bangkok.

The amount, which was not reported on his customs declaration, was judged to be more than he needed for personal use.

He said Mr Scott is suspected of violating the Customs and Psychotropic laws, under which he could face up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $22,000 if found guilty.

Two days later, German Siegfried Karl Achim Ruckel, 56, was arrested.

Both Mr Scott and Mr Ruckel were put on display during a press conference on Wednesday wearing black balaclavas and orange jumpsuits.

Another customs official, Husni Syaiful, said Mr Ruckel arrived on January 26 from Doha and possessed 7 grams (0.25 ounces) of heroin, 0.2 grams (0.01 ounces) of amphetamine and 15.3 grams (0.54 ounces) of morphine.

If found guilty, he could face up to a death sentence and a fine of up to $730,000.

Indonesia has extremely strict drug laws and convicted smugglers are sometimes executed.

Eighteen convicts, mostly foreigners, have been executed under President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo, who took office in October 2014 and declared a war on illegal drugs.

More than 150 people are currently on death row, mostly for drug crimes. About a third of them are foreigners.

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