Crime, Courts, Calamity

KHON KAEN — Seven people, including a 14-year-old boy, are in military custody on suspicion of setting fire to a roadside portrait of His Majesty the Late King in northeastern Thailand, a police officer said Monday.

BANGKOK — Officials at Don Mueang Airport on Thursday said only 4,000 people will be traveling per day during the four-day holidays this weekend.

BANGKOK — A 26-year-old former convict confessed Friday to stabbing a man to death in northern Bangkok to rob him of his iPhone, an attack that went viral on social media due to its brutality.

(17 January) Some supporters of 2 February election have welcomed the result of the latest lottery draw.

BANGKOK — A 31-year-old woman was struck and killed by a car while she was riding a bicycle in Bangkok last night, several days after three cyclists were killed by a drunk driver in northern Thailand.

BANGKOK — A taxi driver died from the coronavirus and 19 new cases of infection were found, the government’s response center to the coronavirus epidemic said on Tuesday.

KOH TAO — Eleven men arrested for sharing Facebook posts about an alleged rape on the tourist island of Koh Tao were questioned without legal counsel and held incommunicado, an attorney said Thursday.

BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand said Thursday they are pursuing more suspects in the kidnapping of a Taiwanese businessman for which an American entrepreneur with a criminal past and two other men have already been arrested.

TRAT — Ten people, including three teenagers, were arrested for starting a fight and damaging three medical ventilators in a hospital emergency room in Trat province last Friday.

BANGKOK — A Thai military court on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to prosecute a prominent historian and social critic who suggested that a famed duel on elephant-back won by a Thai king against a Burmese prince 500 years ago may not actually have happened.