Crime, Courts, Calamity

Police say their investigations have found that a boat that sank in July in rough weather off the southern island of ...

BANGKOK — Police commanders on Monday declined to comment on a claim that the police intelligence unit has marked 31 dissidents for arrests.

TRAT — Though the holiday home of a board member of Thailand’s largest conglomerate infringes on protected forest area, he won’t be charged because the work was done without his knowledge, an official said Thursday.

NARATHIWAT — A local official, his wife, sister-in-law and 8-year-old son were shot to death by unidentified assailants on their way to work Thursday, police said. The attack also wounded two students who were riding to elementary school in their pickup truck.

BANGKOK — The body of a man was found hanging from a tree in middle of a road median early Monday morning in Suan Luang district.

PHUKET — A senior official on Phuket said Monday the loss of the island’s regular lifeguards was not to blame for the drowning of a Russian tourist at Karon Beach, where seven others had to be rescued from the raging seas.

CHONBURI — Sixty-five tortoises, some critically endangered, have gone missing from a breeding center in Chonburi province in what a senior wildlife official said Sunday was likely an inside job.

BANGKOK (Xinhua) — The Thai central bank on Thursday announced that it has given the green light for six commercial banks to offer facial recognition using the electronic Know Your Customer (e-KYC) technology to verify the identity of new customers when opening online deposit accounts.

AYUTTHAYA — For a second time, the suspect in a fatal wreck that killed two students last year was unable to take the stand Tuesday because of an unresolved dispute over financial restitution to one of the victim's families.

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