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Crime, Courts, Calamity

Bad things happen to good people; good things happen to bad people.

Thai Police arrested ‘Ar Yong’, Chinese man, leader of a multi-national organized crime gang.

On Oct 31, 2022, Pol Lt Gen Jirabhop Bhuridej, commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) and the team report the progress of arresting...

The “Red Bull heir” case : A case study in juridical process.

On October 12, 2022, high-profile lawyer Sukit Poonsrikasem posted on his Facebook wall about the case of Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhaya who...
Monks sit and watch at funeral pyres set to cremate those who died in the day care center attack at Wat Rat Samakee temple in Uthai Sawan, northeastern Thailand, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Photo: Wason Wanichakorn / AP

Families Bid Farewell as Nong Bua Lamphu Massacre Victims Are Cremated

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Hundreds of mourners and victims’ families gathered Tuesday evening to watch flames burn from rows of makeshift pyres at cremation ceremonies for the young children and others who died in last week’s mass killings at a day care center in Thailand’s rural northeast.
Buddhist monks oversee the making of cremation furnaces at Wat Rat Samakee temple in Uthai Sawan, northeastern Thailand, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / AP

Cremations Readied for Nong Bua Lamphu Massacre Victims

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Makeshift furnaces made of clay bricks were built Monday on the grounds of Buddhist temples in a small town in northeastern Thailand on the eve of the cremation of the young victims of last week’s massacre at a day care center by a former policeman.
Chief executive of Uthai Sawan Sub-district Administrative Organization Danaichok Boonsom, talks to reporters at a police station in Uthai Sawan, north eastern Thailand, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / AP

CNN Apologizes for Entering Thai Massacre Site, Pulls Video

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — CNN pulled a story on the massacre of Thai preschoolers and apologized Sunday over criticism its journalists entered the day care where the children were slain and filmed the crime scene without permission.
A family of a victim mourns as they bring a blanket and a milk bottle during a ceremony for those killed in the attack on the Young Children's Development Center in the rural town of Uthai Sawan, north eastern Thailand, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / AP

Thailand Mourns Children, Others Slain by Ex-police Officer

UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (AP) — Friends hugged sobbing family members struggling with staggering loss Friday in a rural northeastern Thailand community mourning the children and other victims slain by a fired police officer in the nation's deadliest shooting rampage.
Police outside Uthai Sawan childcare center in Nong Bua Lamphu province on Oct. 6, 2022.

Childcare Center Mass Shooting Death Toll Rises to 37

NONG BUA LAMPHU — A 34-year-old former police officer opened fire Thursday at a childcare center in the northeastern province, killing at least 37 people, mostly children, police said.
Residents paddle through floodwaters in Ubon Ratchathani province, northeastern Thailand, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Photo: Nava Sangthong / AP

Heavy Rain Swells Rivers, Causing Floods in Much of Thailand

BANGKOK (AP) — Heavy rain in northern, northeastern and central Thailand worsened severe flooding in many parts of the country on Monday, as authorities ordered the release of water into already overflowing rivers from dams that were filled to capacity.
FILE - A baby dolphin nicknamed Paradon swims at the Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Center in Rayong province in eastern Thailand, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / AP File

Rescued Irrawaddy Dolphin Calf Dies Despite Weeks of Care

BANGKOK (AP) — An Irrawaddy dolphin calf who was rescued and nursed day and night for weeks by veterinarians and volunteers after his rescue from a tidal pool on Thailand’s shore has died despite all their efforts, officials who were providing emergency care for the animal said Wednesday.
Displaced people from Myanmar carry donated lunch boxes to their tents along the Thai side of the Moei River in Mae Sot, Thailand on Feb. 5, 2022. Photo: AP

Despite Risk of Death, Thailand Sends Fleeing Myanmar Refugees Back

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The young woman from Myanmar and her family now live amid the tall grasses of a riverbank on the Thai border, trapped in limbo between a country that does not want them and a country whose military could kill them.

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