Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — Members of the New Democracy Movement issued a statement this morning saying they will not flee the country and will continue “fighting for freedom and democracy.”

(24 January) The police have dismissed reports that an anti-government protester who vandalised the police headquarters sign had been killed in Ratchaburi province.

(11 November) A bus carrying foreign students has overturned in Phuket province, injuring almost 40 people.

SURAT THANI — A dispute over all-night partying led to recent gunfire which hit tourists’ rooms on the southern island of Koh Phangan, police said today.

BANGKOK — Members of the New Democracy Movement issued a statement this morning saying they will not flee the country and will continue “fighting for freedom and democracy.”

(17 October) A 17 year old monk novice has confessed to murdering the monk abbot who sexually abused him in the temple and delayed the payment he was promised for his ′service?.

(25 November) A man has discharged his firearm at his neighbour′s house following a dispute over parking space, police in Chonburi province said.

(2 January) Police in Udon Thani province have arrested two young men accused of shooting a group of vocational students during their New Year parties.

(4 January) Many flights bound for northern Thailand have suffered delays after swaths of thick fog have engulfed much of the northern provinces.

BANGKOK — In a sweep of Songkhla province this past week, Thai police have discovered a total of four vacated jungle camps they suspect were used by human traffickers to detain Rohingya refugees headed for Malaysia.