Crime, Courts, Calamity

Police were hunting Wednesday for an unidentified man suspected of trying to take another motorist’s head with a long blade earlier this week.

A Russian man was found dead and alone in a hotel room filled with empty bottles Sunday a resort in the Karon area of Phuket.

BANGKOK — In hindsight, Pronthip “Kolf” Mankong says the play for which she spent two years behind bars wasn’t particularly good. In terms of artistic expression, she’s not proud of “The Wolf Bride,” the 2013 student production for which she was convicted of insulting the Royal Family.

Police arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of raping his 13-year-old niece Sunday night in Bangkok’s Phra Khanong district.

BANGKOK — Three foreign men accused of shooting a police officer during a Friday raid in Bangkok have denied any knowledge of the frozen...

BANGKOK — The Pheu Thai Party has accused the military government and junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha of not respecting due process by imposing a 35.7 billion baht (USD$1.03 billion) fine against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra for losses incurred by an agricultural subsidy enacted by her administration.

BANGKOK — A fireman had to be treated for smoke inhalation Monday morning after a fire broke out at the Sampeng Market in Chinatown.

Twenty-one women were back in Thailand today after being rescued from sexual slavery by police in Muscat, Oman.

BANGKOK — A police officer was shot in a raid on an alleged forgery den in southwest Bangkok on Friday afternoon which turned up five foreign suspects, firearms, drugs and a dead body in a refrigerator.

HAT YAI — A homemade bomb planted in a road has killed three police officers in insurgency-plagued southern Thailand.