Crime, Courts, Calamity

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.

KOH TAO — Bone fragments, flesh and a diving mask were found Thursday off Koh Tao’s Chalok Ban Kao Beach, nearly a week after the search began for a missing Russian tourist.

BANGKOK — A schoolgirl facially disfigured by a mug thrown at her face by a teacher said she is making good on her pledge to “get her smile back” Thursday.

BANGKOK — A monk-spokesman for Dhammakaya on Thursday turned himself to police to face charges of insurrection, a day after a warrant for his arrest was issued.

PRACHINBURI — Two high school students and four of their teachers were killed when a double-decker bus taking them on a field trip plunged from a mountain road early Thursday morning.

BANGKOK — Police stations across Bangkok were instructed Wednesday to be more mindful of the health of intoxicated suspects after a university student died in police custody last week.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA — An army spokesman on Wednesday urged people to stop foraging for scrap metal on land reserved for live-fire weapons drills following the death of a scavenger in the northeast earlier this week.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA — Korat police on Wednesday handed over their case against former palace official Jumpol Manmai and his accomplices to prosecutors.

BANGKOK — Thai authorities have seized 422 pieces of elephant tusks and arrested a Gambian man suspected of smuggling the ivory, customs officials said Tuesday.

KOH TAO — Police officers were going house to house and beach to beach with photos of a missing Russian tourist on Tuesday as part of a wider search effort.