Crime, Courts, Calamity

KANCHANABURI — Conflict was brewing once again at the Tiger Temple this morning when it refused to hand over its tigers to wildlife officials.

By Teeranai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter

AYUTTHAYA — Businessman Jenphop Viraporn was indicted yesterday for the fiery crash that killed two graduate students on an Ayutthaya highway.

CHIANG RAI — The charity-run dormitory where 17 schoolgirls died Sunday night was not equipped with a single smoke detector, its director said today.

CHIANG RAI — The charity-run dormitory where 17 schoolgirls died Sunday night was not equipped with a single smoke detector, its director said today.

KOH SAMUI — Navy divers and other rescuers searched Friday for one foreigner still missing after a speedboat packed with tourists capsized near the island resort of Koh Samui that left three women dead, officials said.

BANGKOK — Narate Wangthangmee was sitting on his parked motorcycle at the side of a road when a man suddenly walked up and stabbed him to death Wednesday evening.

BANGKOK — A deadline passed at 4pm today for Red Bull heir Vorayuth “Boss” Yoovidhya to meet with prosecutors four years after he killed a Thonglor cop, but the 31-year-old fugitive will be given yet another chance before a warrant is sought for his arrest.

CHIANG MAI — A Japanese tourist was arrested this morning in Chiang Mai province on allegations he sexually abused boys as young as 9.

CHIANG RAI — Police today were reticent to discuss the ongoing investigation into the cause of a deadly fire which killed at least 17 girls at a school dormitory in the early hours of Monday in Wiang Pa Pao district.

BANGKOK — Sold on nearly every street for about 20 baht, plastic bottles of orange juice are as ubiquitous as coffee and muu ping.