Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — A top alcohol regulator said Monday his agency is suing the popular open-air beer gardens at CentralWorld Plaza for violating advertising laws.

SURAT THANI — An unknown number of tourists suffered burns and injuries when a pyrotechnic meltdown prompted panic New Year’s Eve on Koh Phangan. Revelers...

PHUKET - A Thai female doctor in Phuket has filed a complaint against a Swiss man for allegedly kicking her in the back as...

SAMUI — An Austrian man was found dead this morning on a Koh Samui beach, where police believe he died in his sleep.

PATTANI — A volunteer army ranger is now in police custody for allegedly shooting and killing a five-year-old girl in the restive province of Pattani, where tens of thousands of security officers are stationed to quell a simmering Islamic separatist insurgency.

BANGKOK — A man accused of attempted rape sought to evade capture by climbing up above the drop ceiling of an apartment in east Bangkok early Friday morning to hide from police.

BANGKOK — A flippant comment about bringing a bomb onto a Thai Lion Air flight could mean jail time and a lawsuit for the man whose bid for attention from a flight attendant grounded a flight on Sunday.

BANGKOK — Thailand’s tsunami warning system is operational despite one of the two detection buoy lines on the Andaman sea having been recently damaged...

BANGKOK — Police said Monday that three men charged with assaulting a university underclassman until his spleen burst would be prosecuted.

BANGKOK — The trial for two Uighur men accused of staging Thailand’s worst terror attack was postponed yet again because a court interpreter won’t be available for the next scheduled session, a defense lawyer said Friday.