New Delhi

Visitors: Tourist police of no help

NEW DELHI - A tourist is often greeted to the Capital by pesky touts or auto and taxi drivers trying to drive a hard bargain.

Goa

Pacheco turns heat on tourist police

PANAJI - The tourism minister Francis Xavier (Mickky) Pacheco lamented the criticism against his ministry and sought the Home ministry’s support to boost tourism and related activities in the state.

Officers dress like tourists, increase their presence along Peachtree

Atlanta police make 40 panhandling arrests

Atlanta police officers are dressing up just like sightseers who come to Atlanta to wander through Centennial Olympic Park or locals who work in Midtown highrises.

Mexico

Federal police raid tourist pharmacies

TIJUANA – About 250 federal agents occupied a four-block area of the Avenida Revolucion tourist district for several hours yesterday searching for drugs: neither cocaine, nor heroin nor marijuana, b

Hong Kong

Hong Kong wary of suspicious tourists before Olympics

Hong Kong police have asked budget hotel owners to alert them if they spot any suspicious-looking guests, the city's security chief said today, a day before the start of the Beijing Olympics.

Fortress europe

Proposal for EU police in tourist areas

EU: France has proposed setting up European "police stations" in tourist areas staffed by officers from all over the EU.

Would The Whistle Be Enough?

Thais scramble to allay tourist fears after recent assaults

BANGKOK - The Thai police will hand out whistles to female tourists after the latest in a long series of periodic sexual assaults and killings on beaches and elsewhere in the country, officials said.

Alitalia Takeover: Day One - Job Losses, Protests, Cops In Riot Gear

Italian police clash with airline workers protesting Alitalia takeover

Italian riot police and several hundred Alitalia Airline maintenance employees have clashed in Rome as workers protested job losses threatened by the Airline's pending sale to Air France-KLM.

Thailand

Thai police say Swedish tourist was murdered while walking along a Phuket beach

BANGKOK, Thailand: Police investigating the murder of a Swedish tourist in Thailand said Sunday the woman was taking a walk on the beach when she was attacked and stabbed in the neck.

The woman, identified as 27-year-old Hanna Charlotta Backlund, was found dead Saturday on the island of Phuket, one of Thailand's most popular tourist ... read more

Goa

India police covered up UK tourist murder: minister

NEW DELHI - Indian police deliberately covered up the murder of a 15-year-old British teenage girl who was found dead in Goa last month, the state's tourism minister said on Monday.

India

Foreign women must be more careful, Goa chief says after girl’s ‘murder’

Women tourists who visit Goa, where a teenage British girl was found dead last month, cannot expect to wander wherever they please after midnight without fear of the possible consequences, the chief minister of the Indian state said yesterday.

Digambar Kamat said that foreign women should take greater responsibility for their personal ... read more

Nepal

Myagdi locals beat up Aussie tourist

Locals of Tatopani in Myagdi beat up an Australian tourist named Don last Wednesday following a dispute over liquor price at a local restaurant.

Don sustained injury in the head and there were beating marks all over his body.

How Bizarre Is Bizarre?

Tourist busted tagging glacier

A German tourist has spent a day and a half chipping spraypaint off a world famous glacier after he was caught red-handed defacing the natural wonder.

Police in New Zealand said English tourists photographed 28-year-old Munich man Jan Philip Scharbert as he tagged rock walls and even the ice at Franz Josef Glacier on the South Island's ... read more

China

Beijing police clamp down on "Bird's Nest" tourists

BEIJING - Beijing has moved to crack down on drivers who park their cars illegally on a major highway to take snaps from a pedestrian bridge with good views of the major Olympic stadiums, local media reported on Sunday.

Mexico

Canadian says tourists robbed by police in Acapulco

HAMILTON — Three Canadians are at the centre of a police and government corruption scandal in Acapulco, Mexico, after several Canadian and American tourists said they were robbed by police.

Geoff Walsh, 76, of Beamsville, Ont., a Montreal couple and an American man, said they were robbed at gunpoint by four police officers last ... read more

India

India thwarts terrorist plan to attack tourists visiting Goa

Indian security forces thwarted a plan by terrorists to attack tourists visiting the western state of Goa, one of India's most popular holiday destinations.

The attack was planned for the Christmas-New Year period in North Goa's Calangute-Baga beach area, state-run broadcaster Doordarshan reported. The plan was discovered when police ... read more

India

'Deploy ex-servicemen as tourist police'

NEW DELHI: Continued incidents of violence against tourists have forced the Centre to advise states to recruit ex-servicemen for stepping up the security of tourists, particularly foreigners, and deploy them as 'tourist police' or as an alterative security force.

Malaysia

Tourist: I molested cop

Kuala Lumpur - A Vietnamese tourist got more than he bargained for when he patted the buttock of a policewoman on New Year's Day.

Vu Minh Vinh, 44, committed the offence while the 27-year-old police officer was standing in front of an outlet at KLCC in Jalan Ampang at 10pm on Jan 1.

The officer scolded him, showed her ... read more

India

Police to keep tabs on foreign tourists in Puri

PURI: Attention foreign tourists who plan to visit Puri. Next time you move out of this temple city, please make sure you tell cops of the places you plan to visit. The police have decided to keep a tab on the movement of foreign tourists to ensure their safety. The move comes in the wake of a German tourist getting roughed up by four young men ... read more