Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — The newly installed chief of the Royal Thai Police said officers on Phuket followed proper procedure in the hot pursuit that ended with two suspects dead and a riot Saturday night.

By Teeranai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter

CHIANG MAI — A British national and longtime resident of Chiang Mai province is under arrest on suspicion of uploading child pornography from his computer, police say.

BANGKOK — Police are hunting a man who shot three people to death last night over a parking dispute.

PATTAYA — Almost three dozen mostly elderly bridge-playing Westerners found themselves the surprise targets of a vice crackdown in Pattaya.

PATHUM THANI — Passengers riding a public bus in a Bangkok suburb were forced to evacuate early this morning when nearly a dozen technical students reportedly attacked the vehicle because it was carrying students from a rival school.

CHIANG MAI — Two staff members of a tourist attraction in Chiang Mai province have been charged with fatal negligence after a Chinese tourist died on a zipline ride operated by the company on Sunday.

PATTAYA - A Chinese tourist was arrested yesterday for allegedly carrying a handgun, while he was sightseeing in Pattaya.

CHONBURI - A British man died of heart attack as he was receiving a Thai traditional massage in the resort town of Pattaya yesterday, police say.

By Pravit Rojanaphruk
Senior Staff Writer

PATTAYA — Pattaya police said a medical examination found no evidence of rape in the case of a 20-year-old Russian woman who said she had been sexually assaulted by a Thai man.

BANGKOK — A day after the Royal Thai Police chief blamed his so-far fruitless investigation into the Erawan Shrine bombing on faulty security cameras, city officials today accused him of wild exaggeration, insisting nearly all its cameras work.