Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — A doctor and his celebrity wife responded to police summons Tuesday to explain why they endorsed an unapproved diet product.

UBON RATCHATHANI — A 20-year-old man was arrested Friday morning for allegedly phoning an emergency call center operator 51 times to ask her to have sex with him.

BANGKOK — An environmental group on Tuesday named Coca-Cola and Nestlé among the global companies responsible for much of the plastic pollution in Thailand’s top tourist destinations.

CHIANG RAI — It seems Thailand won’t see its colors fly atop the world’s tallest flagpole as promised by a businessman last year after all.

(13 February) The Department of Consular Affairs has insisted that passport registration service is back to normal, in spite of evidence suggesting otherwise.

CHONBURI - A bag snatcher in the resort town of Pattaya robbed a Chinese tourist on her last day in Thailand this morning, police say.

(3 October) A football referee has been shot and injured in Nonthaburi province.

NAKHON PATHOM - Twenty-two teenagers were arrested for attacking a public bus and beating three students from a rival school in a Bangkok suburb on Friday night.

BANGKOK — The parents of former princess Srirasmi have been sent to await trial in jail after they confessed to charges of defaming the Thai monarchy today, reversing their earlier pleas of innocence.

BANGKOK — Police commandos stormed a famous rock musician’s residence and took him in custody Sunday evening after he refused to turn himself in for firearm offenses.