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PATTAYA — An American man found dead off the coast of Pattaya in full diving gear with cut wounds to his neck committed suicide, the local police chief ruled Friday.

BANGKOK — Avoid water-soaked, hellish Songkran traffic by checking in to real-time maps. The Department of Highways released on Tuesday five real-time updating maps to...

PHUKET — A Norwegian man accused of breaking into a British tourist’s hotel room and strangling him to death in August appears to have fled the country, police said Friday afternoon.

CHONBURI — A Belarusian woman and her Russian “sex instructor” associates could be freed from ongoing detention if charges against them are not brought to court in the next few weeks, a court official said Friday.

BANGKOK — Begin 2017 with a four-day weekend thanks to the interim cabinet, which Tuesday added two more days to the New Year holidays.

A Thai van driver has filed a police report after being assaulted by a foreign tourist during a traffic dispute on Chaloem Phra Kiat Road in Ratsada district, Phuket.

BANGKOK — In a suburb in northern Bangkok, a man lives alone. It’s a large house, and he has suddenly found himself in it after seven years in a prison teeming with criminals.

CHIANG MAI — Teen students were forced to roll blindfolded on concrete. Upperclassmen popped a balloon next to the ear of a girl, who screamed in terror. A boy was forced to wai and scream apologies louder and louder. Elsewhere, students were forced to kiss the ground and dozens fainted while crawling through a fetid canal.

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities were struggling Friday to contain a growing coronavirus outbreak just days before the country's traditional Songkran New Year’s holiday, when millions of people travel around the country.

BANGKOK — The first pile will be driven into Ramkhamhaeng Road on Monday for the construction of the MRT Orange Line, expected to bridge...