Crime, Courts, Calamity

(17 October) Five Thai nationals were said to be on the plane operated by Lao Airline as it plunged down into Mekong River yesterday.

PHUKET — Police in Phuket province say they have arrested a immigrant from Myanmar who allegedly robbed and murdered a French tourist with an accomplice.

BANGKOK — The government on Tuesday escalated its response to the coronavirus outbreak by indefinitely postponing the Thai New Year holidays, closing down schools, and imposing quarantines for travelers from several nations.

SURAT THANI — A dispute over all-night partying led to recent gunfire which hit tourists’ rooms on the southern island of Koh Phangan, police said today.

PATTAYA — A British national fell to his death near Pattaya last night, police said.

BANGKOK — Three men arrested for allegedly plotting bomb attacks in Bangkok were involved in the southern separatist movement, a senior police officer said Thursday.

BANGKOK — Police on Friday said they will seek maximum jail term from the court for those caught defying emergency decree measures, which includes a nighttime curfew set to come into effect tonight.

BANGKOK (Xinhua) — Thailand's Ministry of Public Health on Monday said it had instructed all provincial administrations to open emergency health centers as a precautionary measure in case COVID-19 infections resurge.

BANGKOK — Amnesty International condemned the wave of bomb attacks which killed four people and injured at least 30 others in Thailand as a flagrant disregard of life, and called on the military government to measure its response mindful of its obligations under international human rights law.

On October 8, police officers from Suthisan Police Station in Bangkok discovered the body of Mr Wichit (surname withheld), age 67, a former Thai...