Crime, Courts, Calamity

(26 April) After receiving complaints about foreign “gangs” hiring Thai residents as nominees to open local businesses, prompting concerns of massive money laundering business, the DSI calls on units involved and private sectors for consultation on how to suppress the situation.

BANGKOK (Xinhua) — Thailand's eastern seaside tourist city Pattaya is imposing a temporary lockdown to keep out all visitors in sustained effort to stem the COVID-19 pandemic.

Electricians are extending a power line into a flooded cave in northern Thailand to help the search and rescue efforts for 12 boys and their soccer coach stranded three nights in the sprawling caverns and cut off by rising water.

CHONBURI — A homeless man was robbed of his meager savings and beaten to death by a group of assailants in Chonburi province last night, police say.

BANGKOK — A Myanmar national was arrested Thursday for the alleged murder of a compatriot outside a mall in downtown Bangkok.

SONGKHLA — A top police commander said it will take at least five years for the court to examine the testimony of more than 200 witnesses in a massive legal case against alleged human traffickers in southern Thailand.

BANGKOK — Authorities have put a 1 million baht bounty on their chief suspect in Monday’s devastating bomb attack which killed at least 20 people and injured more than 100 in the Thai capital.

(24 September) A resident of Kanchanaburi Province reportedly shot dead his former lover who refused to resume her relationship with him.

BANGKOK — Four actresses accused of endorsing a cosmetics brand with bogus license numbers turned themselves in to police Thursday and said they weren’t aware of the forgery.

Police personnel from Phuket Province's Chalong Police Station are rushing to find a Russian tourist who went missing after being swept over a cliff...