Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — One of the nation’s most recognizable television personalities today was sentenced to 13 years in prison for cheating a state-owned channel of more than 138 million baht in advertisement revenue a decade ago.

By Teernai Charuvastra
Staff Reporter

SA KAEO — Two women and one man in eastern Thailand are facing charges for forcing their family members and neighbors to strip naked in the street of their village, reportedly on the order of a ghost.

TRAT — Police on Koh Kut yesterday had to cut short a “re-enactment” of five Cambodian men accused of raping two French women after an angry mob gathered and attempted to assault the men.

KRABI — A woman who reportedly went blind eight years ago has been charged with defamation in Krabi province for allegedly writing insults against another Facebooker.

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Andrew R.C. Marshall
Reuters

BANGKOK — The perpetrators of last year's deadly explosion at a Bangkok shrine originally chose a pier packed with Chinese tourists as their primary target and had amassed enough chemicals to make 10 equally powerful bombs, the chief of Thailand's police bomb squad told Reuters.

CHIANG MAI — Two foreign tourists were hurt in separate incidents at Chiang Mai adventure tourism sites in the past week, four months after authorities pledged to improve safety standards in response to a string of incidents.

UTTARADIT — An Australian teacher was discovered dead inside a hotel room last night in northern Thailand.

KANCHANABURI — A second group of five tigers were removed from a commercial wildlife temple yesterday.

SAMUT PRAKAN — A civil servant in Samut Prakan province said a stranger impersonated her on Facebook and posed as a sex worker.

KRABI — A British backpacker reported missing by her mother has been found at Krabi International Airport, police said.