Crime, Courts, Calamity

TRAT — Thai authorities on Saturday were still waiting for Cambodia to hand over the suspect in the murder of a British man last month at a Thai sports club.

PATTANI — A local official in Thailand's deep south was fatally shot Friday by heavily armed men who stopped him on his way to work, police said.

PATTAYA — The case of a Swedish tourist’s stolen motorbike took a surprising U-turn Friday afternoon with police insisting the man simply forgot where he parked the bike.

BANGKOK —A 50-year-old engineer who shot a 17-year-old student dead over a parking conflict begged out of a planned meeting with the authorities Friday. Suthep...

BANGKOK — The cause of a fire at the Central Embassy Shopping Mall was still being investigated, police said Friday.

PATTAYA — When Kristofer Kwang Sun Karlsson stopped at a Big C Supercenter on Thursday evening, it took him five minutes to realize he’d left the key in the ignition.

BANGKOK — A fire broke out late Thursday night in a five-star hotel above one of Bangkok's luxury malls.

NAKHON PHANOM — A court convened Thursday for day two of a retrial requested by a woman who served a year and a half in prison for a crime she said she didn’t commit.

BANGKOK — Prosecutors will recommend that activist Jatupat “Pai” Boonpattararaksaup be tried for lese majeste law and violating the Computer Crime Act, an activist involved in his defense said Thursday.

BANGKOK — Police said on Thursday that they are not considering any plan to extradite alleged drug kingpin Xaysana Keopimpha back to Laos.