Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — Investigator on Tuesday believe a short circuit caused a fire that broke out in City Hall’s Information Technology center on Monday, destroying some documents and equipment.

Update: The Airport Rail Link says everything is fine as of 7:47pm. BANGKOK — Passengers were stranded aboard the Airport Rail Link on Monday evening when...

BANGKOK — A former boxer fallen on hard times was arrested for allegedly snatching what he thought was a gold necklace from a pig walking with a monk Monday morning in a Bangkok market.

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.

BANGKOK — A parody poll on Facebook about junta chairman Prayuth Chan-ocha prompted police to charge a transparency activist Sunday with violating the Computer Crime Act.

KOH TAO — Biological material which presented the first possible break in the case of a Russian tourist who disappeared on Koh Tao turned out not to be human, police said Monday.

GRUYERE, Switzerland — A Swiss man suspected of abusing more than 80 boys for over 20 years in Thailand will go on trial in Switzerland later this month, according to media reports.

PATHUM THANI — The Department of Special Investigation now believes the fugitive leader of Wat Dhammakaya has fled his temple and will soon lift its blockade, a spokesman for the said Saturday.

KORAT — The trial of a former palace aide ended after four hours Friday in a guilty verdict and three-year prison sentence for Jumpol Manmai.

BANGKOK — Of the 31 ministerial officials who served during the years Rolls-Royce said it paid bribes to Thai officials, only two were implicated Friday following seven weeks of investigation by the national anti-graft agency.