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BANGKOK – Thais across the country are launching thousands of lanterns into the sky to celebrate Loy Krathong this week despite pleas from authorities who say the lanterns are hazardous.

BANGKOK – Thais across the country are launching thousands of lanterns into the sky to celebrate Loy Krathong this week despite pleas from authorities who say the lanterns are hazardous.

AYUTTHAYA — Thailand’s Provincial Waterworks Authority has admitted to mistakenly billing a man from Ayutthaya province more than 233,000 baht for a monthly water bill.

BANGKOK – Thailand’s military government has promised that the new charter will not support any of the country’s political factions, despite the conservative leaning of the 36 people appointed to the drafting committee this week.

BANGKOK – A top human rights official has threatened to prosecute Thai police if they refuse to explain the alleged torture of two Burmese men accused of murdering a pair of British tourists.

BANGKOK — Animal rights activists have petitioned the government to strengthen a draft of the country's first animal protection law, which was proposed by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) last month.

BANGKOK — Thailand’s military ruler has asked the media to “cooperate” by not publishing news about the controversial former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra.

NARATHIWAT — Security forces have been placed on full alert in the southern province of Narathiwat, where the start of public schools' second semester has coincided with a spate of drive-by shootings that killed four civilians over the weekend.

BANGKOK — Thailand will begin a year-long celebration of Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's 60th birthday starting next January, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said today.

BANGKOK— Police say the first round of forensic results reveal that the son of a village headman on Koh Tao was not behind the murder of two British tourists on the island last month.