Crime, Courts, Calamity

PHUKET — An orangutan missing since Friday was found alive but inside a cage in the jungle on Phuket on Saturday night.

BANGKOK — Police on Thursday morning were yet to determine the motive behind a bomb which struck Wednesday night in Ratchadamnoen Avenue and injured two people, saying only that the perpetrator had no intention to claim any lives.

BANGKOK — Following a storm of criticism, junta leader and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha apologized this afternoon for suggesting that it is unsafe for attractive Western tourists to wear bikinis in Thailand.

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BANGKOK — A video of a police officer smacking a rape and murder suspect during his interrogation has highlighted divisions in Thai society over how rape crimes should be punished.

BANGKOK — A U.K. citizen fell to his death at Suvarnabhumi Airport early Friday morning in an apparent suicide.

PHUKET — Two more crimes against foreigners in Thailand were reported over the weekend, only two weeks after the country was rocked by the grisly murder of two British tourists on the resort island of Koh Tao.

BANGKOK (Xinhua) — Over 10,000 Thai nationals have returned home so far from neighbouring countries and been immediately put into quarantine, a government official said on Tuesday.

CHIANG RAI — Several soldiers were present at a northern checkpoint where a motorist was shot dead last week, a fact not disclosed by police until today under pressure from the victim’s family.

PHITSANULOK — A museum located at a 130-year-old wooden mansion will bar its doors for good on Sunday after a series of financial losses during the coronavirus pandemic.