Crime, Courts, Calamity

YALA — A roadside bomb prematurely exploded in Yala province last night, killing the person who was planting the explosive, military officers say.

Chonburi Provincial Investigation Police, in cooperation with the Centre for Combating Transnational Crime and Illegal Immigration (CTIC) arrested British and Korean men for robbery...

PHATTHALUNG — Nine tourists had to be rescued Monday after they became trapped by flash flooding on a rock at a popular waterfall spot in the south.

BANGKOK — The top court on Thursday sentenced former Pheu Thai MP Watana Muangsook to 99 years in prison for demanding bribes in a housing development project.

KOH SAMUI — Two Full Moon Party-bound Americans were charged Wednesday with stealing a giant wooden elephant from the front of a restaurant while drunk.

BANGKOK — Thai police are targeting a community of Burmese workers living on Koh Tao in a scramble to find a suspect behind the murder of two British tourists on the resort island earlier this week.

As rumors grow that the operation to rescue at least one of 12 boys trapped in a flooded cave has begun in secret, the surge of activity outside suggests something is at least imminent.

AYUTTHAYA — Supachai Poowong and his colleague Narapan Ngencharoen were coasting along a motorway bound for Ayutthaya after playing football together, heading toward the U-turn that would point them back toward Bangkok.

KALASIN — A century-old shop sign was unexpectedly returned to its owner Tuesday, a week after it was stolen.

By Simon Duncan
Assistant Editor

HUA HIN — When photos of naked Japanese men frolicking in the surf in Hua Hin ended up on Twitter last Saturday, they briefly went viral before being shrugged off as harmless, drunken tomfoolery.