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Taiwanese women robbed in Pattaya

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Taiwanese women robbed in Pattaya

Taiwanese women robbed in Pattaya

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Six Taiwanese women were drugged and robbed at a villa in the Thai holiday resort of Pattaya, reports said Saturday.
The six moved into a holiday villa they had rented together on September 22. On their first evening, they slept deeply, but when they woke up the next morning, they found out about 70,000 baht (NT$64,500) in cash had been stolen, reports said. The women reported the theft to the local police, who had opened an investigation.
According to statements by the Taiwanese, their problems started right from their arrival at the villa in the southern suburb of Jomtien, which they had booked online. Staff was uncooperative, a strange smell pervaded the rooms, and one window was impossible to lock from the inside, they reportedly said.
There had been seven thefts at the site within the past ten days, reports said, with staff faulting the guests for not having locked up their valuables in the safe.
The six women were reportedly five flight attendants from a Taiwanese airline and one person working in the media. They had already moved to Bangkok and would return to Taiwan on Monday, reports said.
Pattaya is a prominent holiday destination, but the level of crime is higher than many Taiwanese tourists are used to, with both local and foreign criminal organizations active in the city on the coast southeast of Bangkok.
The robbery is only the latest incident involving Taiwanese traveling overseas. Over the past week, a Taiwanese man was injured when an East European man dragged him behind a train in Paris after a verbal exchange, while allegations were made that a Taiwanese student had been attacked in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh.
The latter report turned out to be false, based on an unknown person calling the student’s parents to say he and his Thai friend had been brutally attacked and he might have lost his hand. Representatives from the Taiwanese office in Edinburgh at first failed to contact him, but later found him at his residence. The student said no attack had happened, and he had not heard his cell phone because he had been fast asleep.