Crime, Courts, Calamity

(11 November) Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has pressed defamation charges against a leader of the anti-government protests and a famous actress.

LOEI — Hundreds of masked men have attacked villagers in Loei province who are protesting chemical contamination from a local gold mine.

BANGKOK — Police say they have arrested six Chinese nationals who were working as guides for Chinese tourists without permits in Bangkok.

BANGKOK — Police have denied a news report earlier today claiming two witnesses who said they interacted with the suspected Bangkok bomber had positively identified him in a passport photo shown to them by authorities.

(19 December) A 3 year old girl in Surat Thani province has died from drinking dishwashing detergent when her nanny was playing games on her mobile phone, police said.

CHONBURI — Police have arrested a Cambodian man who was caught on camera bullying a foreign tourist who did not rent his beach chair on the popular island of Koh Lan.

SURAT THANI - A 22-year-old Burmese man was found dead on the southern island of Koh Samui this morning, less than a week after his cousin was murdered on the same island.

BANGKOK — Two men who opened fire on a Toyota last month on Rama IV Road were arrested Sunday morning as they attempted to flee into Myanmar.

CHONBURI - A Thai woman has jumped to her death at a landmark shopping mall in the resort town of Pattaya this morning.

CHONBURI - Police have arrested three Thai men who allegedly stole a mobile phone from a Chinese tourist in the resort town of Pattaya last night.