Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — More than 13,000 people arrived in Thailand through international airports since the tourism reopening came into effect earlier this week, government officials said on Friday.

BANGKOK — More than 70 foreigners were arrested early Wednesday morning after police raided a red light district in the capital.

BANGKOK — The government said it’s urgently looking into glitches and delays that afflict the online registration system for entering Thailand during the tourist reopening phase.

BANGKOK — Chulalongkorn University’s vice president of student affairs apologized Friday for a professor who put a student in a chokehold during the school’s annual freshmen initiation ceremony.

BANGKOK — A slumbering Bangkok woman narrowly missed being attacked by a snake that somehow made it into her bedroom, according to footage of the encounter.

SURAT THANI — Police have been ordered from the highest level to crack down on foreign mafia operating on Koh Phangan after a local official and Russian bar owner were arrested in connection with intimidation backed by gunfire on the island famous for its full moon parties.

CHIANG RAI — A U.S. military team and British cave experts have joined the rescue effort in northern Thailand for 12 boys and their soccer coach stranded for a fifth day inside a cave being flooded by near-constant rains.

SAMUT PRAKAN — Police on Wednesday said they are gathering evidence to press charges against individuals who drove a group of migrant workers from Samut Sakhon and left them on the roadside outside Bangkok.

CHIANG MAI — Gaze at the lanterns, watch the floats, mind your pocket.

MAE SAI — Thai navy divers leading the search for 12 boys and their football coach in a cave have failed to make much headway in their effort to push through the murk of a kilometer-long chamber to what is thought to be a clear area where the missing may be sheltering.