Crime, Courts, Calamity

In a recent panel discussion on Thai media at the Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand (FCCT), a Western journalist turned to me and asked,...

BANGKOK — A driver narrowly escaped injury – or worse – when a giant metal bar fell from an elevated rail under construction and landed on his car Friday afternoon.

CHONBURI — More than 20 Thai staff at a go-cart arena in the resort town of Pattaya assaulted four Kuwaiti tourists because of a "miscommunication" last night, police say.

CHONBURI — An engineer who shot dead a 17-year-old boy during a parking dispute last year was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison.

BANGKOK — Two more patients died of coronavirus and related health complications, bringing the total death toll to 12, health officials said Wednesday.

BANGKOK — Worries that a building being built downtown was at risk of collapsing were laid to rest Tuesday by local officials who explained it was just designed to look that way.

BANGKOK — International flights are likely to resume as late as September, a top civilian aviation regulator said Wednesday.

PATHUM THANI — A Chinese tourist says she was assaulted and robbed by her taxi driver en route to Don Mueang Airport in northern Bangkok today.

BANGKOK — Two policemen were injured by drunk drivers in two separate road accidents in Bangkok last night.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA — Police on Monday said they would seek a warrant to arrest copyright agents who allegedly attempted to extort a 15-year-old girl of 50,000 baht for copyright infringement.