Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — A Redshirt activist’s conviction and two-year jail term for defaming the monarchy during street protests seven years ago were upheld Tuesday by the Supreme Court.

BANGKOK — A criminal defamation case brought by the military against three human rights defenders will be dropped, a source within the government counterinsurgency agency said Tuesday.

NEW DELHI — India's external affairs minister says an Indian hospital air ambulance plane with five people on board caught fire and crash landed near Bangkok. The pilot was killed.

BANGKOK — The husband of a celebrity actress was formally charged Monday with money laundering for his alleged connection to a transnational drug suspect apprehended in Thailand two months ago.

PHETCHABURI — Police in Phetchaburi province said Monday 18 people have been charged with breaking into a student’s apartment and killing him last week instead of the person they were looking for.

KOH TAO — The search for a Russian woman not seen for over two weeks on a southern island entered a fourth day on Monday.

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.

BANGKOK — A gender rights group on Friday said a college dean in the northeast verbally abused a transgender adult student in front of her classmates by threatening , while the teacher said he was only making a joke.

BANGKOK — Former Grand Chamberlain Jumpol Manmai confessed Thursday to building a luxury mansion on public land and declined to post his own bail, according to the police officer in charge of the investigation.

BANGKOK — Security forces on Thursday afternoon refuted claims that a follower of the Dhammakaya sect died of an asthma attack because their blockade prevented help from reaching her in time.