Crime, Courts, Calamity

(18 February) The Bangkok administration has closed down 4 schools in the vicinity of anti-government protest campsites as clashes between the demonstrators and riot police intensified.

BANGKOK — Up to 16 people could be charged for organizing a demonstration to the German Embassy in Bangkok earlier this week, a police source said Wednesday.

BANGKOK (AP) — Authorities in Thailand say they are investigating an apparent online break-in by a computer hacker that allowed him to broadcast surveillance video from inside a prison in the country’s south.

BANGKOK — Thailand registered 745 new coronavirus cases in two days on Monday with a new death reported in Bangkok, where a semi-lockdown went into effect, the government said.

AYUTTHAYA — Jenphop Viraporn took the stand on the last day of his trial Friday to defend himself against the charges it was his recklessness to blame for the deaths of two grad students in a fiery wreck last year.

(29 September) Nonthaburi police have arrested a "fake" electrician on suspicion of raping a woman.

SURAT THANI — Police on Thursday said they are looking for those responsible for an illicit marijuana farm on a popular tourist island of Phangan.

SAKON NAKHON — A number of residential areas in the northeastern region were hit by flash floods Frida as a result of a tropical storm blowing from South China Sea.

(27 March) Seven people have been injured after a grenade was thrown into a nightclub in Chiang Rai province after a fight broke out between groups of teenage patrons.

PHUKET — The funeral was held Saturday for an 11-month-old Thai girl who was killed by her father in a video broadcast live on Facebook before he then hanged himself.