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Thai and Malaysian military hold talks in Pattaya
The 25th High Level Committee Meeting between senior officers with the Thai and Malaysian military forces was held on Thursday at the Dusit Thani hotel in north Pattaya.
The Thai contingent was led by General Songkitti Jaggabatara, the supreme commander of the armed forces while the Malaysians were represented by their senior military officer. The one-day talkfest was aimed at the usual broad spectrum of ideas from improving relations between Thailand and Malaysia to ideas on how to solve the on-going insurgency in southern Thailand and stopping illegal cross-border trading.
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British man killed in motorbike accident
In the early hours of Thursday morning police and rescue services were called to the scene of a fatal road accident on Soi Kow Noi in the East of Pattaya which claimed the life of Mr Lee Mansfield, a 41-year-old British national.
The Briton, owner of a popular bar on the soi, had been struck by a motor vehicle driven by a 44-year-old Thai female. She told officers she was driving down Soi Kow Noi on her way back to her residence when she saw a motorbike approaching at speed. The rider, who was apparently not wearing a helmet, appeared to lose control of the machine and veered into the path of her car, striking the centre part of the front grille.
Motorbike taxi driver arrested for drug possession
Just prior to midnight on Wednesday police manning a checkpoint on Soi Kow Noi in the East of Pattaya arrested a man on a motorbike and discovered he was carrying 0.4 grams of the prohibited drug yah ice.
Taken to Banglamung police station the 23-year-old said he worked as a motorbike taxi driver. He claimed that as he was coming along Soi Kow Noi he saw the police checkpoint and, since he wasn’t wearing a helmet, thought he would be pulled over, so he decided to turn around and go in the opposite direction. After police gave chase and apprehended him they discovered the illegal Class 1 drug.
Counterfeit Clothes Vendors arrested
Just after midnight on Wednesday a small army of plain clothes police officers arrested a 53-year-old Thai female and a 21-year-old Thai male and charged them with selling counterfeit copyrighted clothing items near Soi 13 on Beach Road.
The pair were brought back to the Soi 9 police station where they told the plain clothes officers who had arrested them they were mere employees tasked with attempting to sell these counterfeit, but very classy, items to sartorially challenged tourists at knockdown prices. Some of the brands confiscated included Billabong t-shirts and jackets, Dolce and Gabbana jeans and Polo shirts.
The pair were able to pay a small fine imposed by the police before being released with just the shirts on their backs.
Woman lucky to survive condo fall
Sawang Boriboon Rescue volunteers were called to a condominium complex on Sukhumvit Road in central Pattaya on Wednesday afternoon to attend to a 25-year-old Thai female who had fallen from a second-floor balcony.
The woman had locked her door when she left her room earlier in the day but when she returned her key would not unlock her door. She therefore knocked on her neighbour’s door and asked if she could use her balcony
