Ghostly gathering
Performers covered with mud join a parade to mark the annual ghost festival, known as Phi Ta Khon, in Loei’s Dan Sai district on June 28.
Bad baggage
Traveller caught with drugs
Customs officials at Suvarnabhumi airport nabbed a Ghanaian man on the night of June 28 for allegedly smuggling in nearly 1,200 grammes of crystal meth, worth an estimated 4 million baht.
They found the drugs in a bag belonging to 50-year-old Thut Adjartey Glover. He told police he had no idea he was carrying drugs and said that a Nigerian man hired him to take the bag from Ghana to Malaysia.
Sites off-line
Police crack down on gambling
Authorities have closed more than 800 illegal gambling websites since the 2014 World Cup began on June 13, police said.
Deputy national police chief Aek Ungsananon said police know about more than 1,000 such websites and are pursuing the other 200. The Technology Crime Suppression Division has been working with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology to stop illegal gambling.
EASY NEWS FOR M1-3
Up in smoke
Fire destroys warehouse
There was a fire at a plastic pellet warehouse. The warehouse was at Bangpoo Industrial Estate in Samut Prakan. The fire on June 27 caused about a billion baht damage, officials said.
Vocabulary
- nab (v): to catch or arrest somebody who is doing something wrong
pellet (n): a small hard ball
