Crime, Courts, Calamity

LONDON — A Thai tennis player has been banned 18 months and fined USD$5,000 (178, 000 baht) for betting on the sport.

BANGKOK — The head investigator of Bangkok’s deadly August shrine bombing said today their chief suspect in the attack was never tortured as alleged by his lawyer, who may be charged for defaming the police.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Barack Obama and the leaders of Southeast Asia called Tuesday for peaceful resolution of the region's maritime disputes as they concluded a summit in California.

SAMUT PRAKAN — Rogue waves have been blamed for a cargo ship plowing through a pedestrian walkway near the Bhumibol II Bridge.

BANGKOK — In a Jan. 22 letter addressed to the president of the Uyghur American Association, suspected Bangkok bomber Adem Karadag alleges he was tortured and coerced into confessing a central role in the Aug. 17 attack which killed 20 people at the Erawan Shrine.

BANGKOK — Two suspects accused of killing 20 people at a shrine in Bangkok denied the charges today before a military tribunal.

By Sasiwan Mokkhasen and Todd Ruiz

BANGKOK — The chief suspect in August's bombing of the Erawan Shrine has claimed top military and police officers were present when he was told he would be killed if he did not confess to the crime.

BANGKOK — A Bangkok man is fighting to get himself convicted of sexually abusing a child five years after he says his brother was made a scapegoat and imprisoned for the crime.

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat
Reuters

BANGKOK — A Chinese ethnic Uighur man arrested in Thailand over a bombing that killed 20 people in Bangkok last year denied on Monday charges of murder or involvement in the attack, retracting an earlier confession his lawyer said he was tortured into making.

NONTHABURI — A young girl was injured when a man shot a mall sales assistant to death yesterday in western metro Bangkok before turning the gun on himself.