Crime, Courts, Calamity

NAKHON PHANOM — A carnival ride collapsed into its base and injured several riders at a temple fair on Sunday night.

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

PATTAYA — More than 100 officers raided nightclubs along Pattaya’s famed Walking Street early Friday morning and took dozens of foreigners in for interrogation because they were not holding passports.

PHUKET — A female orangutan whose conditions in captivity were decried by activists vanished from the Phuket Zoo just before wildlife officials arrived to see if it was keeping her legally.

BANGKOK — A 23-year-old man Thursday reportedly confessed to having inappropriate contact with hundreds of junior high school boys, some of whom were sexually abused, over the years since he himself graduated from high school.

PATTAYA — A well-known Muay Thai stadium caught fire Thursday afternoon, injuring four people and reportedly causing an estimated 200 million baht in damage.

SURAT THANI — A 46-year-old German tourist drowned after reportedly ignoring a rough seas warning yesterday on Koh Phangan.

BANGKOK — Fire burned through construction worker housing near a popular nightlife district last night destroying more than 200 rooms.

By Andrew R.C. Marshall and James Pomfret
Reuters

BANGKOK — One night last month, Liu Xuehong stood weeping outside the gates of the United Nations headquarters in Bangkok, begging the guards to let her in.

LONDON — A Thai tennis player has been banned 18 months and fined USD$5,000 (178, 000 baht) for betting on the sport.