Pol Col Weerayos Karoonyatorn, centre, immigration chief of Ranong province. (Photo from the Facebook page of the Rayong immigration office)The Immigration chief of the southern province of Ranong was transferred to an inactive post in the Immigration Bureau after Myanmar accused Ranong immigration police of slow service for 200 Myanmar tourists. The Immigration Bureau said on Monday that acting immigration police commissioner Pol Lt Gen Sompong Chingduang last Friday transferred Pol Col Weerayos Karoonyatorn, the Ranong immigration chief, to the operations centre of the Immigration Bureau. The Myanmar side said that on Feb 7, Myanmar tourists had to wait for four hours -- from 8am to noon -- to clear immigration in Ranong. The procedure for all the tourists took about two hours to finish, he said, and Ranong immigration police did their best.

Source: Bangkok Post May 06, 2019 08:26 UTC