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Crime, Courts, Calamity

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

Family Chases False Leads, Psychics in Drawn-Out Search For Daughter

UBON RATCHATHANI — After three months and a series of false leads, a family’s search for their missing daughter could be over after an army officer was implicated in her disappearance and the latest of three bodies were discovered in a forest.

Storm Warning For Bangkok as Flood Crisis Deepens in Provinces, 7 Dead

BANGKOK — Bangkok is warned to expect more heavy rain Monday while flooding continues  in 18 provinces, where seven people have already been killed. Though...

14 Arrested in More Raids Targeting ‘Black People’

BANGKOK — Fourteen people were arrested Saturday evening as raids targeting a specific racial group continued across Bangkok. Sweeps for people of African origin were...

Thailand’s Drug Decriminalization Edges Forward – With Little Fanfare

BANGKOK — Despite some changes at the top, a quiet push to relax the country’s harsh drug laws continues.

Rescuers Unable to Free Elephant Swept Into Creek by Flash Flood

Update: The elephant was rescued Wednesday afternoon, according to media reports. She was being taken to an elephant hospital in Lampang province for treatment...

Company Found Culpable in Cadet Parachuting Deaths

BANGKOK — A court Wednesday ordered an aviation firm to pay compensation over faulty parachute slings that led to the deaths of two police cadets three years ago.

52 Arrested in Bangkok Raid Targeting ‘Black People’

BANGKOK — Fifty-two people were arrested early Monday morning in Bangkok in a police raid targeting only black foreign nationals. A search in 10 areas...

Phuket Denies Lifeguard Shortage is Killing Tourists

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.

Taiwanese Customers Shut Inside Siam Square Salon For Not Paying

BANGKOK — It took two diplomats, an online culture lesson and a stuffed animal to smooth a Pacific Rim feud that flared up between two Taiwanese women the Bangkok salon owner they refused to pay.

DSI Mulls Lese Majeste Charge Against ‘Bogus’ Firm

BANGKOK — A royal defamation charge might be filed against a construction company that allegedly defrauded 300 million baht from its victims, the deputy director of the Department of Special Investigation, or DSI, said Thursday.

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