
Putin reveals more of Russia’s intention to base nuclear weapons in Belarus
The stated intention of Russia to base tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus was explained by Vladimir Putin last week. Several...
Foreigner deported from China for using cannabis in Thailand
A foreigner of unknown nationality was allegedly deported from Shanghai, China, for testing positive for cannabis upon returning from Thailand,...
Surge in prosecutions for Asian foreign workers in Thailand
Although the immigration bureau is perceived as the main agency for catching foreigners snatching Thai jobs, the Department of Employment...
24 Illegal Migrant Workers Arrested in Pattaya
Pattaya Police arrested 24 illegal migrant workers yesterday, March 27th. The workers varied in nationalities including Indian, Nepalese, Burmese, Chinese,...
British and Korean men arrested for robbing cannabis shop in Pattaya
Officers from Mueng Pattaya Police Station arrested a British and Korean man yesterday after they stole 175,000 baht from a...
6 Dead in Nashville elementary school shooting
Three students and three staff members were among the six victims of a shooting by a former pupil at a...
Zelensky accuses Russia of practicing “radiation blackmail.”
Zelenskyy of the Ukraine informs Rafael Grossi of the IAEA that safety at Europe's largest nuclear complex was not guaranteed...
E-cigarette Vendors Arrested at Tree Town Market in Pattaya
Despite calls for e-cig legalisation, Thai police still retain a harsh ban on all kinds of vaping devices as they...
Indian man overstays visa in Thailand by 2,048 days
Immigration police arrested an Indian national in Chon Buri province, eastern Thailand, found to have overstayed his visa by 2,048...
Aussie man and Thai wife say politicians’ letter saved them from death penalty in Thailand
A free Aussie man and his Thai wife who spent four years in prison in Thailand for a crime they...
Cryptofugitive Do Kwon apprehended in Montenegro
Kwon Do-hyeong, commonly known as Do Kwon, the disgraced founder of a failed cryptocurrency startup who is sought in South...
Distraught man saved from jumping off Pattaya overpass to his death
Panomkorn Saesamrong sits on the outside of the pedestrian overpass on Sukhumvit Road in front of Pattaya School No. 5...
Pattaya Police says two women shot were wrongly targeted
Pattaya Police believe the two women wounded in a shooting in Pattaya in the early hours of this morning were...
Pattaya ping pong bomb hooligans injure 2 women
Two Pattaya Residents Injured in Drive-by Ping Pong Bomb Attack...
3 year old boy dies after being trapped in car for 2 hours
A three year old boy suffocated to death after being trapped in his mother’s car in the Isaan province of...
Loutish foreigner arrested for running amok in Pattaya restaurant
A foreign man in Pattaya was arrested in today’s early hours for causing a scene at an Isaan restaurant on...
Police arrest 3 Chinese nationals
Three Chinese nationals were arrested for kidnapping and extortion....
Hunt for teenage gangs in Pattaya Molotov cocktails burn young couple
L̀ā kǽng wạyrùn phạthyā pā rabeidk̄hwd p̄heā khū̀ h̄nùm s̄āw fị khlxk keụ̄xb thậng r̀āng cĕb s̄āh̄ạs̄ 75 / 5,000...
War crime allegations have resulted in an arrest warrant for Putin.
Vladimir Putin has a warrant for his arrest from the International Criminal Court (ICC)....
Experts also find no conclusions about Covid 19.
The search for the causes of the Covid-19 pandemic has a tantalizing new lead....
Red Gem Case
A famous case from 29 years ago involved the theft of 2 large red gems worth 1,300 million baht by...
Chinese billionaire charged in alleged fraud scheme that defrauded investors of over $1 billion
Chinese billionaire charged in alleged fraud scheme that defrauded investors of over $1 billion...
Several shot dead at Jehovas Witness meeting in Germany
No motive found so far for the shooting of religious group members in Germany...
Two killed in botched airport theft of $32.5 million from Chile
Another attempted robbery at Chiles Airport kills 2...
2 Americans found Alive and 2 Dead in Mexican border Kidnapping ordeal
A trip to Mexico for medical reasons ended in tragedy for 4 innocent Americans...
UK Supermarket stops selling Thai Coconut Milk after monkey abuse allegations
Trained monkeys were found abused and had no access to water...
MEN bombings apology from secret MI5 boss
MI5 Chief offers apology to victims of Manchester Arena bombing...
Murdaugh Guilty as Charged
Will the defendant please rise Murdaugh trial verdict...
At least 59 found dead after Migrant boat sinks near Italian Coast
The Boat capsized in choppy waters before dawn close to Steccato di Cutro, a beach town...
The US captivated as Murdaugh takes the stand
the US glued to the trial of former lawyer and his slain family...
Turks go after Building Regulators
Some buildings withstood the quake others fell like a pack of cards , who's responsible?...
Suspected Grambling Boss’s Lamborghini impounded
Macao888 suspects super car ends up at the Cop station...
Last of the Khmer Rouge sentenced
Cambodian Genocide Khmer Rouge member 91 in court to hear sentence...
Suicide attack on Pakistan Mosque aimed at Police
Police were the main target for suicide bombing Taliban deny involvement...
Civil unrest as shocking Tyree video murder by Memphis Police releases
Memphis residents and America in uproar over murder of non resisting arrest of Tyree Nichols...
Duterte’s drug war crimes back in spotlight
Duterte back in the spotlight after new government inquiry...
Myanmar war crimes to be addressed by German Prosecutors
The situation in Myanmar is being investigated by Germany's top prosecutors...
California Shootings 7 dead in Half Moon bay
Just 48 hours after a shooting Police are called to another mass murder...
Baldwin to be charged for movie set death
Actor Alec Baldwin and armorer face charges for move set death...
Helicopter crash Ukraine Zolensky: “No accidents in war”
14 Killed in Helicopter crash in Ukraine Zolensky suspicious...
Mafia Godfather arrested after 30 years avoiding authorities
After 30 years on the run Mafiaoso boss nabbed by Carabinieri...
Suspect charged with Christmas Eve murder on Merseyside
Police on Wirral have charged a suspect of the callous murder of Wirral Beautician...
FTX CEO Finds $5Billion in Crypto case scandal
$5 Billion appears from nowhere in FTX Crypto Scandal...
Amnesty calls Algeria to look at Lynchings of the Innocent.
Many accused of arson in Algeria but many innocents Lynched as well...
Not So Safe Deposit boxes in Pattaya Hotels
Just how 'safe' are Hotel room safes?...
Pattaya expat Murder Victim named
murdered expat in Chaiyapruek road Pattaya named...
Andrew Tate: Influencer will be detained by Romanian police for 30 days
Tate taken into custody on Thursday as part of a probe into charges of rape and human trafficking...
Suspects detained in Wirral Christmas Eve fatal shooting
Wirral Pub Shooting victim named and arrests made...
Young Woman shot dead in Wirral pub on Christmas Eve
Community on Merseyside devastated at Christmas shooting in popular pub....
Paris Shooting
An inquiry into murder, of two and manslaughter, has been launched in Central Paris after shootings...
Australian arrested at Samui Airport with Guns and ammo
Traveller stopped at the Samui airport with a gun and 96 rounds bought from a local man....
Guilty of the worst fraud in US History; Out on Bail
Guilty of the worst fraud in US History freed on bail in the US...
The Serpent Charles Sobhraj to be released
The serpent set to be released from Nepalese jail...
Female entertainer reportedly attacked by capricious client
In a police report, a hostess claimed that her customer repeatedly kicked and hit her in the face when she...
Operating gambling, pornography websites two arrested
Crime Suppression Division police have arrested a wealthy computer programmer, his actress wife and another man for allegedly operating a...
Mega Online gambling network busted
Thirty-one people have been arrested on charges of operating gambling websites for a major criminal network, with about 1.2 billion...
Two years in prison, suspended for four years, for no mask
A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a man who refused to wear a face mask aboard a Peach Aviation flight...
Cops find link to transnational ring
Chinese businessman and suspected crime boss Chaiyanat “Tuhao” Kornchayanant will likely face more charges as police secure evidence of his...
Large drug network in Northeast busted
Narcotics suppression police seized assets worth almost 2.5 billion baht during raids in eight northeastern provinces on Wednesday. Officers from...
Thai police break up major online gambling den
Thai police break up major online gambling and World Cup betting network The Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) police have...
Six dead in shooting at remote Australian property
Six people, including two police officers, have been shot dead after a suspected ambush at a remote Australian property. Police...
Man found buried in field, three arrested
Three suspects have been arrested for the murder of a man found dead in a a paddy field in Bua...
Contraband ganja two arrested
A Mekong Riverine Unit patrol arrested two men with 257 kilogrammes of contraband marijuana from Laos, in That Phanom district...
Three women shot dead in Rome cafe
Three women including a friend of Italy’s new prime minister were killed when a man opened fire at a cafe...
National police chief to take over ‘Tuhao’ probe
National police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas said he will take charge of the investigation into a criminal syndicate linked...
Husband shots wife then takes his own life
A man thought to be mentally ill shot his wife to death before taking his own life in Kabin Buri...
Thai PM vows not to tolerate corruption in government bureaucracy
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said today (Friday) that he has never been involved in corruption throughout his career in government...
Polish men wanted for torturing woman in Pattaya
Interpol asked to help track duo who left the country after savage assault on Cambodian artist Police have asked Interpol...
Resort and cars worth B3bn seized from alleged triad boss
Authorities have seized a luxury resort and cars, worth about 3 billion baht in all, from alleged Chinese triad boss...
Russia frees US basketball star in swap with arms dealer
The US and Russia have exchanged jailed US basketball star Brittney Griner for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, held in...
Gold shop-owner foils robbery, killing one, injuring another
An alleged robber was shot dead and one of his accompliceswas injured when four men tried to rob a gold...
Former massage parlour tycoon wants triad reward
Former politician and massage parlour tycoon Chuwit Kamolvisit, who exposed “grey businesses” run by Chinese triads in Thailand, is entitled...
15 drug smugglers killed near Thai-Myanmar border in Chiang Mai
Thai security forces shot and killed 15 hill tribesmen and seized an unspecified quantity of illegal narcotics as they were...
Traffickers find new ways to evade detection
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, drug traffickers are increasingly attempting new ways to smuggle drugs into Singapore, the...
3,500 Bitcoin mining machines seized in raids in BKK
Officers from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) have seized 3,500 Bitcoin mining machines and arrested a man in raids...
3 missing in another blast at scene of Saturday’s train derailment
Three Thai railway officials are believed to have been killed and four others injured in an explosion this morning (Tuesday),...
Criminal code that bans sex outside marriage
Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday approved a criminal code that bans sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one...
Suspect arrested after 7 years on the run
Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police on Monday arrested a man suspected of shooting to death a kindergarten teacher in 2015,...
Lack of clear rules on firearm ownership and use proves fatal
Incidences of gun-related violence against women and children are a reflection of the government’s failures in controlling the sale and...
Illegal migrants from Myanmar arrested
Fifty-three Myanmar nationals travelling in three vehicles were arrested at a checkpoint in Sai Yok district on Sunday, police said....
Malaysian billionaire to extradited China
Police are in the process of deporting a wealthy Malaysian businessman to China with the extradition expected to complete this...
Russia arrested in Pattaya wanted for murder
A Russian man, wanted in his country in a murder case, has been arrested by immigration police at the request...
British tourist injured in Pattaya hit-and-run
Shocking footage has emerged of a pickup truck slamming into a British pensioner while he was crossing a road in...
Meat seized from illegal meat processing plant in Chon Buri
Officials from the Livestock Development Department seized about 25 tonnes of pig and cow offal and other meat soaked in...
Pattaya pubs face closure
Two pubs in Pattaya were found operating without permits and opening beyond the 2am closing time in separate raids by...
Freight train derailed by bomb
Authorities say a bomb planted on the tracks was responsible for the derailment of a freight train in Sadao district...
Focus on online safety for children as risk of cyber abuse rises
Government officials will also work with ISPs to teach children and youths how to navigate the online world safely and...
Indonesia set to punish sex before marriage
Indonesia’s parliament is expected to pass a new criminal law this month that will punish sex outside marriage with imprisonment...
Case prosecutor discharged n Red Bull case
The Public Prosecutors Commission on Friday announced a decision to discharge Chainarong Saengthong-aram, a former senior prosecutor at the Office...
Boy 10y sent to juvenile centre after found smoking ganja
A 10-year-old runaway has been sent to a detention centre in Rayong province after he and another boy were photographed...
Large haul of narcotics seized on route to Thailand
Anti-narcotic officials seized a large quantity of narcotics, destined for Thailand, across the Thai-Myanmar border from Chiang Rai Province on...
Chinese triad boss arrested
Police arrested another alleged triad boss during raids in Bangkok and eight provinces on Wednesday, as the purge of Chinese...
Ganja smoking shops deemed illegal
Ganja-smoking shops are deemed illegal now that the Ministry of Public Health’s new announcement declaring flowers of marijuana plants to...
Carabao accused of land grab
Corruption buster Veera Somkwamkid on Tuesday lodged a complaint with police against musician Yuenyong Opakul, aka Aed Carabao, accusing him...
Police seize a Porsche and other luxury cars
Police raided 11 locations across Greater Bangkok on Tuesday, including a luxury housing project in the Lasalle area of Samut...
Philippines sees a pandemic boom in child sex abuse
Seven-year-old Eric giggles, showing off a broad toothless grin, as he talks about space travel in the shade of a...
Haul of methamphetamine seized from rented room
Anti-narcotics officers in Thailand’s southern province of Songkhla seized about 400,000 methamphetamine tablets and arrested a suspect in a raid...
Wife runs off with lottery winnings
A man in Thailand has been left heartbroken and penniless after his wife took his lottery winnings and ran off...
Deputy police chief pledges ‘to leave no stone unturned’ in Pattaya
Following a number of crackdowns on several illegal pubs in Bangkok and Chon Buri, deputy national police chief SurachateHakparn is...
Riots in Brussels after Morocco beat Belgium
Police used water cannon and teargas after coming under attack from football supporters who brought havoc to the centre of...
Court orders SBN to stop showing World Cup via AIS Playbox service
Thailand’s Central Intellectual Property Court has ordered Super Broadband Network (SBN) to cease streaming World Cup 2022 football matches via...
Over 130 cars sold illegally by “car for cash” dealer seized by police
Crime Suppression Division police have impounded more than 130 cars, which had been pawned by their owners at a used...
Gang of boys arrested for allegedly stealing motorcycles
Thai police arrested four teenagers and seized 11 stolen motorcycles and spare parts in a raid on a garage in...
Gang arrested for allegedly operating illegal online gambling platform
Police from Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division arrested 14 people yesterday (Friday), for allegedly operating an illegal online gambling service....
Inmate recaptured after escaping from hospital
A drug inmate who escaped from a hospital in Phon district of Khon Kaen on Friday has been recaptured. Prison...
Photo journalists injured want riot cops probed
A representative of four photojournalists injured in a clash between riot police and anti-government protesters on Din So Road during...
Wrap up case against ‘Tuhao’ within 3 weeks
His Thai police colonel wife to be questioned Police expect to wrap up their case against the Chinese businessman and...
Suspect in crypto fraud arrested
Police have arrested a seventh member of a gang that allegedly duped people into investing in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme....
Chinese woman stabbed 27 times in Bangkok
A Chinese woman stabbed a fellow Chinese woman 27 times to death inside a shopping mall near Dhurakij Pundit University...
Police officer jailed in rare drug war conviction
A Philippine police officer has been jailed for torturing two teenagers killed at the height of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s...
Suspect in trafficking of illegal migrants from Myanmar
A Thai man, alleged to be a key coordinator in the commercial trafficking of illegal migrants from Myanmar into southern...
Pattaya man kidnapping plot
Two more Chinese suspects allegedly involved in a compatriot businessman’s abduction in Pattaya were arrested on Tuesday. The alleged victim,...
‘Tuhao’ reports to police, denies charges
A Chinese businessman dubbed “Tuhao” turned himself in to Bangkok police on Wednesday to answer allegations of involvement in the...
Thai Wife shot dead on livestreaming
A 30-year-old man has been arrested in Krabi after his wife was shot dead while livestreaming him at a house...
Club Q Colorado shooting local heroes save the day
People at a gay club in the US state of Colorado have been hailed as heroes for subduing a gunman...
Mountain B pub renamed, reopened and raided by police
Chon Buri police and local officials raided a pub last night (Saturday), which is located on the same plot of...
Massive fire of rubber bullets at protesters
Police fired rubber bullets to prevent demonstrators moving from Din So Road near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok to the...
1.5m meth pills, 700kg of ‘precursors’ seized
Marines from the navy’s Mekong Riverine Unit seized 1.59 million methamphetamine pills and 700 kilogrammes of powder believed to be...
Probe sought into transfers of ฿39m
Police in Ubon Ratchathani’s Mueang district have been asked to investigate how 39 million baht was transferred from its bank...
Pattaya Cleaners arrested for hotel theft
Two former hotel cleaners have been arrested for the theft of cash and gold from a hotel guest’s room in...
Man arrested selling 4 tiger cubs
A wildlife trader was arrested as he delivered four tiger cubs he was selling for 1.5 million baht to an...
Killers who locked victim in box to die
UK news Two killers who locked their victim in a box to die after attacking him in a row over...
Slashed in forehead with knife by “old friends”
A 27-year-old Pattaya resident said he was brutally bludgeoned and slashed in his forehead by a group of his old...
Robbed gambling den says casualties
A security guard at a gambling venue in Samut Prakan’s Muang district that was robbed last week has reported to...
‘Joe Ferrari’ B1.35bn million assets seized by government
A former district police chief jailed for torturing a suspect to death will have undeclared assets worth 1.35 billion baht...
Dawn raids ,online gambling websites targeted
Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police on Monday launched a large operation, codenamed “Hanuman vs online casino mafia”, against gambling websites...
Pickup seized near border
A pickup smuggled from Malaysia was seized and two suspects arrested near the Malaysian border in Sadao district on Sunday....
Funds missing from collapsed crypto exchange
The collapsed crypto exchange FTX said on Saturday that it was moving funds into offline storage following a series of...
Three suspects arrested in gold shop robbery
All three men allegedly involved in the 2-million-baht holdup of a gold shop at a mall in Sena district were...
Thai women arrested on human trafficking
The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) today handed over three Thai women believed to be part of a syndicate involved in...
Civil servants test positive for drugs
Twenty-one civil servants in Khon Kaen tested positive for drugs during a recent crackdown on drugs and weapons in all...
30,000 SIM cards seized believed to be used by call centre gangs
Police from Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division have seized nearly 30,000 SIM cards in recent house raids yesterday (Thursday), including...
Thai police to overhaul pistol management and gun welfare scheme
The Royal Thai Police (RTP) are in the process of revising the entire management of service pistols and the welfare...
No involvement in any ‘grey business’
Thamanat Prompow, the expelled former secretary-general of the Palang Pracharath Party, has denied having connections to any illicit business, as...
Couple forced me to have sex
A 32-year-old woman has accused a wealthy couple of forcing her to sleep with them in exchange for forgiveness of...
2 foreign Ponzi scammers on the run
The Criminal Court on Wednesday issued arrest warrants for two foreigners who were involved in the Forex-3D Ponzi scheme. However,...
Fake Thai ID, embassy limo and military uniform
Police arrested a Chinese man, 33, for allegedly holding a fake Thai ID card and found a luxury car resembling...
Under-construction Gambling den found in Pattaya
Police have raided a building in Pattaya and found it was being modified for use as a gambling den by...
Large drug haul discovered in condo in Huai Khwang district
Thai anti-narcotics police seized more than 200kgs of illegal drugs in a search of a condo in Bangkok’s Huai Khwang...
Over 60,000 criminal suspects rounded up
More than 60,000 suspects in cases mostly tied to narcotics and illegal weapons have been detained during a series of...
cop’s free food and drinks ran pub into the ground
A police station chief with a 3% share in a pub, held by his wife, allegedly creamed off 100,000 baht...
Chinese triad leaders blacklisted
The heads of five major Chinese triads operating in Thailand have been declared persona non grata, deputy national police chief...
German man in Pattaya has an intense standoff
A German man in Pattaya had an intense standoff with police as he was reportedly afraid to be arrested for...
Thai Drunk doctor avoids jail
The Thon Buri district court has sentenced a police doctor, charged with drunk driving and causing two deaths and a...
Child Protection Foundation boss is arrested
Thailand’s Ministry of Social Development and Human Security has decided not to renew the license of the Child Protection Foundation,...
Homemade weapons found at New Zealander’s house
Police found a large quantity of homemade firearms, grenades and ammunition at the house of a retired engineer from New...
B2 each Speed pills plunge in price
Methamphetamine pills, which cost as much as 300 baht apiece in Thailand just a few years ago, can now be...
British tourists taken hostage in Amazon
Boat passengers held in Peru, which include a ‘very small number’ of British nationals, have been released. The tourists were...
Police are hunting for this monk
Police are looking for a senior monk from a well-known temple in Nan province, northern Thailand, who is accused of...
Gang arrested over huge lottery ticket fraud
Three people accused of duping others into investing in a bogus lottery ticket scheme, with losses of more than 120...
Scam raid nets 15 in the ring
Police have arrested 15 Chinese and Thai citizens over their suspected links to a string of illegal businesses and phone...
Police chief says, No gambling dens in city
National police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas on Wednesday insisted there are no gambling dens in the capital. He made...
Chon Buri deputy police chief removed over alleged corruption
The deputy commander of Chon Buri provincial police has been abruptly transferred to an “inactive post”, at the operations centre...
Boxing promoter arrested for call-scam slavery
Police have arrested a Chinese boxing promoter on charges of entrapping Thais into working for a brutal gang of call...
Cabinet to suspend exports of sodium cyanide
Thailand has exported enough to Myanmar to make 16 billion pills The cabinet will be asked to suspend exports of...
Greek arrested in Athens over murder of Thai wife
A 46-year-old wanted Greek man, who three years ago had murdered his wife in Thailand, has been arrested in Athens....
Mother fatally bashed; Son arrested
A jobless man with a history of drug use was arrested after his elderly mother was bashed on the head...
Police rescue 13-year-old girl from prostitution in Malaysia
Police from Thailand’s Human Trafficking Prevention and Suppression Division, with cooperation from Malaysian police, have rescued two Thai females, one...
Yannawa pub drug connection Businessman denies it
Businessman Chaiyanat Kornchayanant, who donated 3 million baht to the Palang Pracharath Party, has denied involvement in the Yannawa pub,...
Shots fired during drug car chase
Plainclothes police officers fired several shots at a car being driven by a suspected drug dealer who was attempting to...
Singaporean man arrested in Thailand in possession of “Happy Water” drug
Thai police have arrested an elderly Singaporean male for allegedly dealing the “Happy Water” drug among Chinese tourists at night...
Owners may have violated visa rules
Police are looking into whether a group of wealthy business owners from China are behind the growing number of unauthorised...
Store sold large amounts of cough syrup
Police have raided a network of drug stores and arrested 20 employees for selling illegal amounts of cough syrup to...
Do something about the LOAN SHARKS
A 19-year-old student sought help from the Crime Suppression Division (CSD), saying she had received threats to her life from...
Thief steals 200,000 baht from local store
A security camera caught a man stealing money roughly worth 200,000 baht ) from a local grocery store in Chonburi....
Thai provinces told to submit list of suspected drug dealers
All provincial administrations have been ordered to submit a list of suspected drug dealers and addicts in their respective provinces...
Trade in unripe durian blames transfer on unscrupulous traders
The head of a task force, responsible for cracking down on the trade in unripe durian, claims that his abrupt...
Chon Buri governor and police chief deny taking bribes
Chon Buri Provincial Governor Thawatchai Srithong and the provincial police commander, Pol Maj-Gen Kittanet Thananantaveesin, held a joint press conference...
Raid at illegal nightclub for Chinese
A total of 104 customers, 99 of them Chinese nationals, tested positive for drugs during a police raid on three...
Psychiatric report on Bangkok Book Fair attacker
Police are waiting for a psychiatric report on the man who allegedly attacked Progressive Movement leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit at the...
Swindling missing new husband out of B50m
A woman widely known as “Ying Kai” and who has made headlines previously for alleged offences is again in the...
Officials face arrest for allegedly seeking bribes
Warrants have been issued, by Songkhla Provincial Court, for the arrests of Rattaphum district’s assistant chief and five defence volunteers,...
Teacher accused of raping student surrenders
A 45-year-old physical education teacher at a school in Kuchinarai district accused of raping a 13-year-student surrendered to police on...
Raid on Club One Pattaya, maybe 5-year closure
The real owner of the raided CLUB ONE PATTAYA is believed by Pattaya police to be a Chinese national with...
Bitten to death by own pit bulls
A man who kept seven pit bulls in his house has died after being attacked by one or two of...
Street racers warned of incarceration if they gather in a groups
Street car racers in Thailand are warned that they may face imprisonment and hefty fines if more than five of...
Car chase to meth pill haul
A man was arrested with 720,000 methamphetamine pills in possession after a chase by highway police in Nong Song Hong...
159 guns stolen from Pak Kret police station, 30 retrieved so far
A total of 159 guns, mostly handguns, have been stolen from Pak Kret police station’s storage over the past five...
WARNING spicy noodles laced with toxic agent
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling Mie Sedaap’s Korean Spicy Chicken instant noodles due to reported contamination of...
385-year jail term for ‘shoddy’ school lunches
The Criminal Court recently handed down a 385-year jail term to a former school director in Surat Thani after finding...
Child abuser sporting black eye jailed after ‘frenzied’ stabbing
A violent thug jailed for 20 years after he stabbed two police officers has been unmasked as a paedophile wanted...
Pattaya Naked fishing angers locals
Fishermen have caused rage after they began advertising for a fishing experience that included naked women and the opportunity to...
Thai policeman admits to stealing over 100 guns from Pak Kret police station
A non-commissioned police officer, attached to Pak Kret district police in Nonthaburi Province, is in custody on theft charges for...
Chief cop linked to drug trade
The Narathiwat provincial police chief has been transferred to an inactive post with the Royal Thai Police (RTP), pending a...
Cop held over theft of 90 guns
A police senior sergeant-major has been arrested and his chief transferred in connection with the theft of about 90 guns...
Officers linked to loan graft of B30m
Builders of the army’s housing loan projects have complained to the Defence Ministry over alleged corruption in the force’s internal...
Thai Police hand over NZ suspect to FBI
A criminal suspect wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and New Zealand police has been detained in...
Armed men overpower cops
About 20 armed men overpowered six drug enforcement officers whose two-stage sting operation started well – but later ended with...
B500m ‘convenience store’ Ponzi scheme
A 55-year-old man has been arrested for an alleged “convenience store project” Ponzi scheme which caused his investors to lose...
Victims found with heads shaved, burns
Five people were rescued by authorities from an apartment in Bangkok’s Bang Phlat district yesterday, saying they had been unlawfully...
B10m stolen loot found in mans condo
Stolen goods worth about 10 million baht were recovered when police arrested a suspected house burglar at his condominium room...
Fined for rollerblading on busy Bangkok road
A 37-year-old Canadian man seen rollerblading on busy Bangkok roads and later fined by police said he only wanted to...
Man in drug rehab arrested after shooting at neighbour and stealing police vehicle
A man was apprehended by Phatthalung provincial police yesterday (Sunday) after he shot at a shopkeeper, stole a police car...
Record fine for money laundering
Australian gambling giant Star Entertainment Group has been fined A$100m ($62m, £55m) for failing to stop money laundering at its...
Gunmen kill 11 in attack on Russian trainee soldiers
Gunmen have killed 11 people in an attack at a Russian military training ground on Saturday. During a firearms training...
Pub fire claims 25th victim
A female victim of the Mountain B pub fire in Chon Buri’s Sattahip district in the small hours of Aug...
Village chief killed in gun attack
An assistant village chief was killed in a gun attack in Bannang Sata district late on Saturday night, police said....
Thailand’s gun control remains problematic
The recent mass shooting in Nong Bua Lam Phu province was the deadliest in Thailand’s history. The tragedy revealed even more shocking statistics, particularly...
jailed for sharing Facebook post criticizing government
Three people were sentenced to 1 year in prison on Wednesday (12 October) for sharing a Facebook post criticizing the...
Lives ‘at risk’ as fire erupts at notorious jail
The lives of prisoners are at grave risk in Evin prison in Tehran, rights groups warned Sunday, after a fire...
Shootout in Chiang Rai , one dead
Thai police and army troops seized about four million methamphetamine tablets, shot dead one drug trafficker and arrested another in...
Airman’s boss accepts discipline over trigger happy
The commander of the 41st Airborne Division, ACM Wongwiwat Wattanavrangkul, will be subject to disciplinary action as a show of...
Government doubles down on drug & gun control
The Thai government is increasing its effort on drug suppression and gun control, following the tragic daycare center attack in...
Four drug suspects arrested in two major cases
Police have seized more than 11 million speed pills and other drugs in two major cases, with four suspected drug...
8.6m meth pills seized by police in northern Thailand in just 3 days
Thai police seized 8.6 million methamphetamine tablets and five vehicles and arrested four suspects in three interceptions in the northern...
Burning body of a slain man discovered
The burning body of a slain man was discovered in the grounds of a school near his house in Prakhon...
‘ice’ seizure, 5 arrested
A total of 22.5 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine were seized and five suspects arrested in Lom Sak district on Friday,...
Police Guns to be confiscated
Police officers and administrative officials who exhibit behavioural problems will have their guns confiscated, according to the national police chief....
9,000 fake US banknotes ,Two arrested
A police sting led to the arrest of a man and a woman in Nonthaburi province and seizure of 9,000...
Meth pills way out of control in Thailand
At least 280 million methamphetamine pills are being churned out daily at factories outside the northern border, said Justice Minister...
American arrested for smashing man’s car
An American man was arrested in Thailand for smashing a man’s car and threatening his family. The 45-year-old man, identified...
Police officers arrested in Vietnam
Two police officers in southern Vietnam have been arrested for negligence over a karaoke bar fire that killed 32 people...
135 tonnes of smuggled frozen pork and chicken seized in Samut Sakhon
Thai customs and livestock development officials, as well as police from the Consumer Protection Division, seized about 100 tonnes of...
Fake monks from Cambodia nabbed
Five Cambodian men who had disguised themselves as Buddhist monks were arrested on Friday for soliciting money for the past...
Arrested at airport for alleged investment fraud
A British executive accused of enticing people to invest in a foreign fund and refusing repayment after the contracts expired,...
Action against case-winning fake lawyer
Justice Ministry spokesman Sorawit Limparangsri said on Wednesday the incident might prompt the Kamphaeng Phet Court to retry several cases...
Cybercrime team seizes 38 SIM boxes and arrests 2 suspects
Police from Thailand’s Cybercrime Investigation Bureau arrested two men, believed to be members of a call centre scam gang, and...
110 kilogrammes of heroin seized
Two men have been arrested and 110 kilogrammes of heroin being smuggled to Malaysia seized in Muang district. Pol Lt...
Ambushed and wounded by gunmen
A police corporal heading home after work was ambushed and wounded by gunmen in Sai Buri district on Tuesday night,...
BMW X1 Driven By 15-Year-Old Boy Hits and Kills student
A 15-year-old boy joyriding in his family’s BMW X1 with three friends has struck and killed a grad student after...
How to tell when a celebrity influencer is actually an online fraudster
The boom in social media has given birth to a multitude of influencers and idols, though some are cashing in...
Pattaya to focus more on tourist safety
The police in Pattaya, Thailand, and tourism leaders and business operators recently met to discuss cooperative efforts to combat crime...
Body parts buried under expressway
A man has been arrested for killing his lover at a condominium in Muang district, cutting her body into parts,...
War weapons 61 arrested, 145 ‘ghost guns’ seized
Sixty-one suspects have been arrested with 145 firearms and almost 9,000 rounds of ammunition seized as part of a nationwide...
Do not answer that call
The Digital Economy and Society Ministry warned people against answering calls with the prefix “+697”, saying that the prefix was...
Courier arrested, 152kg of heroin
A drug courier has been arrested and 152 kilogrammes of heroin seized from his car near Talat Thai market in...
Suitcase murder might be missing Lao businesswoman
An unidentified murder victim found in a suitcase in the Mekong River might be a Lao businesswoman missing from Vientiane...
Gunfire at Pattaya Police
Two groups of teenage students in front of Pattaya police station fired three rounds from a firearm into the sky,...
Patrols increased, fighting in Myanmar
Soldiers have increased security checks along the border in Sangkhla Buri district amid fresh fighting between government troops and ethnic...
Suspects in Samui extortion case one arrested
One of six foreign men accused of the extortion of 1.8 million baht in cryptocurrency from a Russian realtor couple...
Canadian gangster in Phuket killing faces death penalty in Thailand
Thai police are convinced that Canadian Matthew Dupre and accomplice Gene Karl Lahrkamp gunned down Vancouver gangster Jimi Singh Sandhu on the island of Phuket in February. The extradition...
Danish found dead in his bedroom
A Danish man was found dead in his bedroom in a commercial building in Muang district late on Tuesday night,...
Blackmail Porn scum scammers hitting Pattaya
Greetings! I have to share bad news with you. Approximately a few months ago, I gained access to your devices,...
Couple seek protection
A couple has sought witness protection after accusing a police officer on Koh Samui of demanding sex with the woman...
Russian mafia squeezed $3m worth digital coins from me
He said he was filing the complaint because he was worried about the security of his wife, also a Russian...
Will the gentle approach rid Thailand of its drug problem?
Drug addicts sometimes commit shocking crimes in their quest for a fix, even attacking their own family members. In some...
24 tonnes of pork smuggled from Brazil destroyed
The Livestock Development Department buried about 24 tonnes of frozen pork, which originated in Brazil and was smuggled into Thailand...
School told to punish suspected rapists
Education Minister Treenuch Thienthonghas instructed a boarding school in Phetchabun’s Muang district to punish students involved in the sexual assault...
Hazardous supplement sold Transgender influencer
Police have arrested transgender influencer Nara Crepe Katoey on a charge of advertising dietary supplements containing a hazardous psychoactive drug,...
Thailand Suffering from Drunk Driving Epidemic
Despite a campaign to deter people from drinking and driving 7,141 people were charged with drunk driving during Songkran 2022...
Deport 40,000 Chinese and shut 175 online casinos
The Philippines will shut 175 online casinos that are operating illegally and deport 40,000 Chinese workers, a justice department official...
Authorities try to cinch loopholes to prevent online financial fraud
Authorities and regulators are stepping up efforts to prevent financial fraud, especially online scams, with measures ranging from plugging legal...
Five thousand websites blocked
Almost 5,000 web addresses have been blocked for running illegal content, including lese majeste and pornography, says the Ministry of...
Director found dead in submerged car
The female director of a school was found dead in a car submerged in an irrigation canal in Tha Muang...
New narcotics code to counter rising tide
The Ministry of Justice has seized more than 10 billion baht in assets from a drug network operating in and...
Women in Hong Kong runs from police is Thai man, 30
Hong Kong police carried out a raid on illegal foreign workers at Tsim Sha Tsui on Sep. 22 and one...
Passenger sucker punches American Airlines flight attendant
An American Airlines passenger brutally sucker punched a flight attendant in the back of the head after he was ‘refused...
Thailand must confront abusive teachers
Last month, a teacher at a school in Bangkok’s Thung Khru district ordered a teenage student to kneel on the...
Fake lubricant and dry cell batteries worth over ฿4m seized by Thai police
Police from the Consumer Protection Police Division (CPPD) seized fake lubricating oil, worth over a million baht, from a warehouse...
US Navy Kingpin scammer in Asia caught
A military contractor at the centre of a major US Navy corruption scandal in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia has...
Crystal meth, speed pills seized, 2 arrested
Narcotics suppression police have seized 139 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine and 8,000 speed pills and arrested two suspects, one an...
Accident witness stole B6m watch
Police have arrested a 41-year-old man who first appeared to be helping at the scene of a road accident, but...
kindergarten kids forced to wear military uniforms
A Thai public school faces online criticism for making kindergarten students wear four different uniforms in one week, including what...
Crack-Down on Misbehaving Monks
In response to recent news regarding Thai monks’ behaving badly, Thailand’s prime minister ordered the National Office of Buddhism to...
Senior police officer’s assets confiscated
The Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases has ordered the confiscation of 136-million-baht worth of assets from Pol Lt...
Rapist says girl, 4, fell on wooden stick
A 60-year-old man accused of sexually molesting a neighbour’s 4-year-old girl has denied the charge and told police she tripped...
Suspects wanted for abduction and assault of a 16-year-old boy
Arrest warrants have been issued for six more suspects, wanted by Pak Kret district police in Nonthaburi province for an...
Trader arrested ,Piranha fish, for sale
A young man was arrested on Monday for illegally having piranha fish in his possession for sale, police said. The...
Body of 6y son tossed in river by farther
A 33-year-old man has allegedly admitted beating his 6-year-old son to death in a drunken rage and dumping his body...
Police chief demoted after woman’s death
Pattaya’s police chief was demoted today after apparently failing to help a trafficked Kyrgryz woman who sought help before her...
Doctor’s sister was she murdered
A doctor on Monday asked the Crime Suppression Division to investigate the death of her young sister, also a doctor,...
Pitbull attacks women
A woman was attacked and seriously injured on Monday by her male pitbull while she was feeding a stray dog....
Pills seized from Mekong river
A border patrol has seized 258,000 methamphetamine pills found on the bank of the Mekong river in Tha Uthen district,...
Cigarettes worth B7M seized
Excise officials raided a warehouse in Tak Bai district of this southern border province on Saturday and seized a large...
3 Chinese nationals wanted for Kyrgyz women death
Police have issued a warrant, approved by the Pattaya Court, for the arrests of three Chinese nationals following the death...
Gang beat 14y boy to death for alleged theft
Police are looking for a group of four young men who were said to have beaten a 14-year-old boy to...
Bar owner arrested in karaoke tragedy
Charges pressed after blaze that killed 32 people Vietnamese authorities have arrested the owner of a karaoke bar where a...
Jailed twice for fraud ex cop arrested again
A former senior police officer who had been imprisoned twice has been arrested in Bangkok in connection with fraud at...
Ban proposed on sidewalk-hogging
Motorcycle-taxi drivers who repeatedly ride on sidewalks could have their queue jackets confiscated for up to three years, under a...
Kyrgyzstani woman fall’s to her death at a hotel in the Pattaya
A Kyrgyzstani woman fell to death at a hotel in the Pattaya area after noon today (September 16th). She had...
Sergeant dismissed over attempted rape
A disgraced soldier accused of attempting to rape a civilian employee at an army office in Kanchanaburi has been dismissed...
Woman beats up pervert in Thai toilet
A Thai man snuck into a women’s public bathroom in Chachoengsao province, eastern Thailand, on Sunday and secretly filmed a...
Sentenced to death for poisoning children
A woman was handed the death penalty on Thursday for poisoning her two children, including one count of murder, and...
Homemade gun goes off in class boy killed
A 15-year-old boy was killed when a homemade pen gun went off accidentally in a classroom at a Nonthaburi school,...
Children’s bodies found in suitcase
New Zealand police say a woman in South Korea has been charged with the murder of two children whose bodies...
Singer Baitoey, DJ Man hear charges in Forex-3D case
Thaweesin on Wednesday reported to the Department of Special Investigation to acknowledge three charges in connection with the Forex-3D online...
Woman found in public pond Murdered
A murdered woman was found floating in a large public pond in Klaeng district of Rayong province on Tuesday morning,...
Party with young students, Teacher arrested
A Thai male school teacher has been held and charged by police for after he allegedly took nine male and...
Ambush in the south two dead
A man and his wife were shot dead in an ambush on a village road in Muang district on Monday...
Meth, ecstasy seized, Seven arrested
A large quantity of drugs, mainly methamphetamine and ecstasy, was seized and seven suspects arrested by police in Bua Lai...
Fishing boat burns, sinks after being caught
A Vietnamese fishing boat went up in flames and sank after it was caught trawling in Thai waters and its...
Life sentence for Swedish teen for killing teachers
An 18-year-old student who killed two teachers at a Swedish secondary school in March this year has been sentenced to...
Sexual assault case involving 22 children
A teacher is accused of sexually assaulting 22 children, most attending the school where he worked, and posting the videos...
British pensioner paraded around with hood over his head ‘after drugs raid’
A British pensioner has been pictured flanked by several police officers with a black hood covering his head after being...
Malaysian businessman linked to US Navy scandal escapes
A Malaysian businessman at the heart of a massive bribery scandal involving the US Navy has escaped house arrest, the...
students murdered after road accident
BMW driver arrested, admits using meth Three students were shot dead and their motorcycle set on fire after a crash...
Hotel found looted, loss put at B70m
Six people have been arrested after a closed and locked hotel was found looted, stripped bare of everything of value...
‘Billy’ trial, Ex-park chief, 3 associates bailed
The Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases has granted bail to Chaiwat Limlikit-aksorn, the former Kaeng Krachan National...
Thailand’s image as a corrupt country
Thailand’s image as a corrupt country a serious problem. CORRUPTION REMAINS a serious issue as revealed by an international survey,...
Canada stabbing spree suspects on the loose after 10 killed, 15 wounded
Canadian police hunted for two suspects in a stabbing spree that killed 10 people and wounded at least 15 others...
‘beggar’ faces deportation
A Cambodian man with a deformed back, who attracted social media charity, is facing deportation after being arrested for allegedly...
Hospital to conduct second autopsy on schoolgirl who died in school van
The body of the 7-year-old school girl, who died inside a locked school van at a school in Chon Buri...
B15m theft using mobile bank app
A woman has been arrested for allegedly transferring a total of 15.7 million baht from a man’s bank account to...
Maid-abuse scandal reveals many layers of bureaucratic malaise
When the story of Pol Cpl Kornsasi Buayaem, 43, beating her maid, 32, found its way to social media, people...
Over 300 underage people found in a pub in Chiang Rai
325 people aged between 16 and 20 were found inside a pub in Muang district of the northern province of...
Thai police seeking 3 people allegedly involved in B300m cryptocurrency scam
Police from the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD) are looking for three partners in P Miner Cryptocurrency Ltd. They are...
Gun jams during bid to kill Argentina vice-president VIDEO
Argentina’s vice-president has narrowly avoided assassination after a gunman’s weapon jammed as he aimed at her. Footage shows the moment...
Extradited to US on bribery, money laundering charges
A Marshallese business couple have been extradited to the United States, where they are wanted on charges of bribing a...
Russian Lukoil chief dies in ‘fall from hospital window’
The chairman of Russia’s Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports...
Thai ‘sex slaves’ Top women weeps in court
A woman who forced two Thai women into sex slavery sobbed in court as lawyers discussed her “good character” during...
Thai killed in Phnom Penh drug bust shoot-out
A Thai drug suspect was shot dead and three others were arrested in a drug bust in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh on...
Senator admits to former policewomen relationship
Senator Thani Onlahiad has admitted to a previous close relationship with a policewoman whose alleged abuse of her maid has...
School girl found dead in school van
A seven-year-old girl was found dead in a school van in Phan Thong district late Tuesday afternoon. Police said she...
Murder of lawyer in Rayong two arrested
The alleged gunman and an accomplice have been arrested and charged over the murder of a prominent lawyer in Rayong...
Official on gambling network charges
An executive member of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre (SBPAC) has surrendered to Bangkok police to answer charges of...
Aussie tourist kicked off flight from Phuket video
Fed-up Jetstar passengers have cheered and applauded as an ‘unruly’ woman was kicked off a plane after reportedly lashing out...
Drugs officer warns of influx from neighbouring countries
The recent arrest of a Chinese couple allegedly attempting to smuggle heroin out of Thailand highlights how the country has...
Forex tricksters B5m reward
A 5-million-baht reward has been offered for the whereabouts of two women, including a well-known Thai YouTuber facing charges of...
Brit ‘arrested for smuggling 22lbs of cocaine hidden in suitcase
A British woman has been arrested in Mexico for allegedly smuggling more than 22lbs (10kg) of drugs through an airport, reports...
K-pop CEO accused of rape bail refused
The Criminal Court on Tuesday denied bail for an organiser of K-pop events who has been accused of raping a...
THB10,000 fine for anyone who dumps oil down manholes
Anybody dumping oil into Bangkok sewers will be slapped with a fine of up to 10,000 baht, Bangkok Governor Chadchart...
Schoolboy needs surgery after being forced by teacher to stand and sit 200 times
A 15-year-old schoolboy is awaiting surgery, to treat serious muscle inflammation at the back of his left knee, after he...
Motorcyclists smuggling illegal migrants
Smuggling of illegal migrants is rampant along the border in Sangkhla Buri district with young motorcyclists being well paid to...
Commissioner SACKED over ‘unusual wealth’
The National Anti-Corruption Commission has fired its deputy secretary-general after accusing him of being “unusually wealthy”. Prayad Puangchampa was dismissed...
Explosion at LPG filling plant
Five workers were injured, three seriously, by an explosion and fire at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) filling plant in...
Deported after robbing Dutch tourist
A Vietnamese man who stole 15,000 baht and an iPhone from a Dutch tourist on Koh Samui is set to...
Crashed car full of drugs as passengers flee
Police found 40,000 methamphetamine pills in a car that had crashed and then been abandoned in Ron Phibun district late...
Shops and stores targeted by campaign of violence
The recent bombing and arson attacks at 17 locations in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat may have been motivated by the...
Baldwin expects no charges over shooting
United States actor Alec Baldwin said he does not believe anyone will be criminally charged over the fatal shooting on...
Elderly woman claimed that a ghost led her to corpse
An elderly woman has claimed that a ghost led her to a corpse in a shanty house in Thailand. Officers...
Fake sale of B11m in bogus air tickets
Consumer protection police have arrested a 61-year-old woman suspected of selling fake air tickets worth a combined 11 million baht...
Pub fire death toll reaches 21
Another patient seriously injured in the fire at the Mountain B pub in Chon Buri died on Saturday, bringing the...
Crackdown after casino found near Bangkok City Hall
Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt has ordered a crackdown on illegal gambling after the discovery of a casino close to City...
Passengers in the back of a truck Exempt From 2,000-Baht
People riding inside a truck or passengers riding in its cargo bed will be exempt from Thailand’s upcoming seat belt...
George Foreman accused of sexual abuse in 1970s
Two women have filed lawsuits in the United States after accusing ex-heavyweight world champion George Foreman of sexual abuse in...
Largest-ever crystal meth haul found in marble
Almost two tonnes of methamphetamine has been seized by Australian police – the biggest bust of the drug in the...
UK ex-ambassador to Myanmar arrested
Myanmar’s military authorities have arrested the UK’s former ambassador to Myanmar, Vicky Bowman, and her husband. She has been accused...
Official says payments made in gratitude, not bribes
A senior district official in Chiang Mai arrested at his office on Thursday for allegedly demanding bribes in exchange for...
CCTV footage of an armed man stealing 300,000 baht
CCTV footage of an armed man stealing 300,000 baht in cash from a gambling den in Bangkok’s Din Daeng district...
Hi-lo gambler shot dead at funeral
A gunman walked up behind a gambler and shot him dead during a hi-lo dice game at a funeral in...
Drug trafficking suspects flee arrest
Police were hunting six drug trafficking suspects who shot and wounded a policeman while fleeing arrest in Khon Kaen on...
Woman bites tourist’s ear off in Pattaya
A Thai woman who had been drinking was detained on Saturday in Pattaya after attacking a Thai-American tourist without cause,...
Price for a life in Thailand is under $100
A hired gunman has told police in Phang Nga province in southern Thailand that he was paid just 2,500 baht...
Thai police smash a major drug trafficking gang
Police have smashed a major drug trafficking gang in Pathum Thani province, arresting at least five suspects, seizing 3.4 million...
Couple stabbed to death at mall in Pathum Thani
A couple were stabbed to death at a shopping mall in Thailand’s Pathum Thani province this afternoon (Saturday), following a...
Tearful officer claims medical condition left her unable to control behavior
A police corporal who had claimed to be a senator’s wife and was accused of torturing a female soldier who...
Background to the Forex-3D swindle
Forex-3D is the name of the foreign exchange futures investment scheme created by a forex brokerage company, “RMS Familia”. It...
Golden Casino workers flee Cambodia by swimming
Dozens of Vietnamese casino workers allegedly forced to toil without pay in Cambodia have fled back to their homeland by...
Fake medical, educational certificates being issued
The Consumer Protection Police Division (CPPD) and the Health Service Support (HSS) Department announced a crackdown on gangs specialising in...
Insurgents in attacks seen wearing shirts bearing BRN flag
Two of the three southern insurgents allegedly responsible for torching one of the 19 targets, mostly convenience stores, in three...
Man held for questioning after undocumented migrant workers die in road accident
Police in Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat are holding a Thai man for questioning, to try to establish...
Thai actress and mother held on remand in alleged Ponzi scheme scandal
Entertainment celebrity Savika Chaiyadej, aka “Pinky”, and her mother Sarinya were among 19 people indicted on criminal charges today (Thursday)...
Man found dead in a bombed-out convenience store in Narathiwat province
The body of a man was found yesterday (Wednesday) in one of more than a dozen of 7-Eleven and Mini...
Brothers arrested in Pattaya
Two brothers who were allegedly involved in serial crimes in Pattaya were arrested after viciously shooting at a victim’s head...
India a new market for trafficked animal species from Thailand?
India has recently emerged as a potential market for several CITES-listed animal species being smuggled out of Thailand, with the...
Swedish man stabs Thai boyfriend in Pattaya
Yesterday at a condo in Pattaya, Chon Buri province, a Swedish man mistakenly believed his own partner was having an...
Ten convenience stores, gas station in Thailand fire-bombed
Ten convenience stores and a gas station in three restive southern provinces were fire-bombed by suspected insurgents last night (Tuesday)...
Government-run website launched to help fight sexual harassment online
The Thai Government has opened a new website in an effort to protect youth from online sexual harassment, which has reportedly been...
Suspects arrested for alleged COVID-19 compensation fraud
Fourteen suspects, including a number of insurance brokers, have been arrested by Economic Crime Suppression Division officers, for allegedly using...
Drug-crazed deadly Bangkok shooting spree
The dangers of Rohypnol were highlighted by authorities on Tuesday after a Bangkok used-car dealer was killed in a drug-fuelled...
Dutchman seen spearfishing at Phi Phi islands in custody for illegal hunting
A Dutch tourist, who was recently seen on TikTok with some parrot fish, which he allegedly caught in Thailand’s southern...
Former park chief indicted for murder over enforced disappearance of Karen activist
The Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) has decided to indict former Kaeng Krachan National Park chief Chaiwat Limlikhitaksorn for pre-meditated...
Thai police arrest suspected Chinese gambling kingpin
Thai police have arrested a Chinese fugitive wanted by Beijing for allegedly running illegal online gambling operations and will soon...
Mountain B fire families want CSD police to take over investigation
Thirteen representatives of the injured and dead from the Mountain B pub fire in Thailand’s Chon Buri lodged a complaint...
Meth barons look closer to home
Cheaper than a coffee but powerful enough to keep him riding Bangkok’s streets without sleep, Soonthorn puts a flame to...
Vietnamese victim of the Mountain B fire begged the owner to cover her exorbitant medical expenses
A female Vietnamese victim of the Mountain B fire begged the owner to cover her exorbitant medical expenses, which had...
Gunman in Montenegro kills 10, then shot dead by passerby
A man went on a shooting rampage in the streets of this western Montenegro city Friday, killing 10 people, including...
Man jailed for murdering wife of 28 years
A man who suffocated his wife of 28 years with a hotel pillow has been jailed for at least 12...
Actors in porn movies arrested update
The Thai Daily News reported an arrest over the shooting of a pornographic film shot in a luxury villa in...
Foreigner hunted for fishing parrotfish
A TikTok video clip of a foreign man catching parrotfish somewhere in the sea off Thailand left Thai netizens outraged...
Paedophile who raped boy, 7, at water park cries as he’s handed 21 year jail term
A paedophile who subjected a young boy to a three-year ‘campaign of rape’ has been jailed for longer than many...
loan shark threatens to cut off debtor’s fingers
Angsumali shows the reporter of one local newspaper a copy of her police report stating that the loan shark threatened...
Thai worker Sits on Women’s Husband’s Face in Live-Streamed Assault to wife
British housewife Velma Parrish has filed charges with the Thai Royal Police against a Thai woman who assaulted her husband,...
100-kilometre police pursuit ends in blow out
A delivery truck driver who sped through a checkpoint on Tuesday night sparked a 100-kilometre police pursuit, and was then...
7-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed by her 9-year-old brother
A 7-year-old girl was accidentally shot dead by her 9-year-old brother when he unwittingly pulled the trigger of a loaded...
Three injured in gun battle in broad daylight
Three people, including an innocent bystander, were injured in a gun fight in broad daylight, involving ten cars and over...
Thai woman shoots boyfriend dead (video)
A woman in an abusive relationship said she shot and killed her boyfriend in front of a monk because she...
Dead man found in short-time motel room
A 62-year-old man was found dead at a short-time motel a few hours after his young woman companion left on...
Bangkok Taxi driver gets jail for rape
The Criminal Court last week sentenced a taxi driver to 13 years and nine months in prison after finding him...
B18m in fake US bills Pair arrested
Police have arrested two men with 18 million baht worth of counterfeit US currency, which they suspect might have been...
E-cigarettes seized in online sting
An online vendor was arrested with 500,000 baht worth of e-cigarettes and related items as she was preparing to live...
Please bring home dead worker from UAE
The family of a Thai worker who recently died in the United Arab Emirates has called on the government to...
luxury car importer arrested
Police on Friday arrested a car importer who had jumped bail five years ago after being sentenced for dodging tariffs...
‘Joe Ferrari’ withdraws conviction appeal
The mother of convicted police officer Thitisan Uttanaphon, aka “Joe Ferrari”, has asked the court for the withdrawal of an...
Club Inferno illegally built, operated
The pub that burned down early Friday morning, killing 14 people and injuring 38 others, was illegally built and operated....
Woman accuses bank of stealing 4 million baht
In the northeastern Thai province of Ubon Ratchathani, a woman has accused a bank of stealing 4 million baht from...
Police say two murdered bodies found now identified
Police have identified two murdered bodies found buried in a grave in Chok Chai district last week as a Vietnamese...
Tourist roams around Pattaya stark naked
At around midnight last night, a European man in Pattaya’s Bang Lamung district casually strolled along a busy street while...
Senior cop accused of molesting sleeping actress
A fact-finding investigation has begun into an allegation that a senior police officer in Bangkok’s Bang Phlat district molested a...
5 wounded 2 dead in gang carpark shootout
Two people were killed and five others wounded in a gunfight between two gangs in a car park at a...
Illegal Myanmar migrants, 2 drivers arrested
Forty-three illegal migrants from Myanmar on board four vehicles and two drivers were arrested in Sangkhla Buri district on Wednesday...
Six suspects over actress Tangmo’s death charged
Public prosecutors have indicted six suspects over the death by drowning of actress Nida “Tangmo” Patcharaveerapong on Feb 24. Nonthaburi...
Fugitive Red Bull boss cocaine charges all dropped
One law for them and another one for us The charge of cocaine abuse brought against Red Bull heir Vorayuth...
Two injured by bomb in South
Two defence volunteers were injured by the explosion of an improvised bomb while they were providing security for teachers in...
Policeman kills wife, then himself
A police officer said to suffer fits of depression is believed to have shot dead his wife and then killed...
Cartels change tack there in the post
The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) is stepping up its vigilance for drug smuggling by post as crime...
Cannabis drink leads to arrest at Malaysian border
Two Thais were detained for three days at a Malaysian border checkpoint near Satun province after consuming drinks containing cannabis...
Take me to jail its better there
A 60-year-old man in Thailand was arrested for stealing, but it turns out, he had wanted to be caught so...
Cooperation with Cambodian cops sees raids across country
Cambodian authorities have deported 94 Thais who worked or conspired with call centre gangs in Phnom Penh back to Thailand...
Arrested for hiring 12 luxurious cars and selling them
Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police have arrested a former army sergeant on charges of counterfeiting and using counterfeit official documents...
Suspect confesses to shooting his mother
Police arrested a Chinese-Australian businessman for the fatal shooting of his mother in a Sukhumvit condominium on Friday night, after...
Thais, foreigners arrested in Phuket
Eleven people were arrested for gambling, eight Thais and three foreigners, when police raided a villa in Muang district in...
Lao couple, wanted by police
A Lao couple, wanted by police in the neighbouring country for their suspected involvement in fraudulent schemes, were arrested yesterday...
Abduction of Chinese businessman all denied the charges
The three Chinese men arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport on Thursday over the alleged abduction of a Chinese businessman all denied...
Couple found in fresh forest grave
A man and a woman were found in a fresh grave in Chok Chai district on Thursday evening and local...
Bangkok phone-scam recruiters caught
Two more people accused of recruiting unemployed Thais to work for a phone scam gang in Cambodia have been arrested...
Loan sharks steal mother’s electrical items
A Chonburi woman complained that a loan shark burglarized her house after she failed to pay back her high-interest loan....
Russian arms dealer extradited from Thailand
A Russian arms trafficker who was arrested in Thailand and is serving a 25-year jail term in the United States...
Asian call scam suspect extradited
The alleged second-in-command of a major Taiwanese call scam gang extradited from Albania has arrived back in Thailand to face...
39,000 packs of contraband foreign cigarettes
Almost 39,000 packs of contraband foreign cigarettes of various brands have been seized from a canal-side on the Cambodian border...
Japan executes Akihabara mass murderer
Japan has executed a 39-year-old man who killed seven people in Tokyo in 2008 during a stabbing rampage, local media...
Retired Teacher among arrests in underage sex case
Nine men, one a retired teacher, have been charged with paying for sex with underage girls, as part of a...
7 arrested with 631kg of ice in pickup
Narcotics suppression police seized 631 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, known as ice, and arrested seven suspects in Songkhla province on...
Robber flees with B160,000 baht
A man armed with a revolver held up a Bangkok Bank branch at the Lotus department store in Rawai area...
Father shoots dead drug-addict son
An assistant village chief surrendered to police after shooting dead his son, saying the man was a violent drug addict...
Philippine university shooting three dead
Three people were killed Sunday in a rare shooting at a university in the Philippine capital Manila, officials said, in...
4 prisoners, including 2 pro-democracy rivals executed
Myanmar’s junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party and a prominent activist,...
Monk claims whiskey prevents COVID
A Thai monk busted for drunken driving devised an incredible excuse for being inebriated at the wheel: He claimed that...
Killer of popular vlogger Lamu executed
A Chinese man has been executed for murdering his ex-wife by setting her alight while she was livestreaming. The woman,...
Monkeypox patient caught in Cambodia
Nigerian man crossed border at Sa Kaeo after leaving Phuket, where contact tracing continues Police in Cambodia have arrested a...
Man extradited from Thailand over murder
A man has been extradited from Thailand back to Australia over the murder of a Sydney father eight years ago....
Billionaire held on laundering charge
High-roller dubbed ‘Jho Low 2’ in Malaysia also wanted for $83-million scam in Macau Police have arrested a wealthy Malaysian...
At least 18 killed in police raid
Police in Brazil say 18 people have been killed during a raid against a criminal gang that controls one of...
Spyware scandal returns to haunt Thai govt
Allegations that Thai authorities used surveillance spyware on government critics returned to haunt those in power just a day before...
PM says legal action against local supplier of fake bomb detectors
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told the Opposition today that the Ministry of Defence has already taken legal action against...
Fifth drug trafficker hanged
Singapore hanged a convicted drug trafficker on Friday, the fifth execution in the city-state since March, after a court rejected...
Singaporean and his Thai wife skip bail
A Singaporean and his Thai wife who skipped bail in Singapore on charges of internet fraud involving luxury watches and...
USA human trafficking blacklisting Vietnam objects
Vietnam on Thursday objected to the United States adding it to a human trafficking blacklist, saying the move was based...
The story of a man who needs help but who will be hanged in Singapore
Nazeri bin Lajim, a 64-year-old Singaporean, has only hours left to live. Singapore intends to execute him in the early...
6 million baht out of a British man in exchange for freedom scam
Five people have been charged in connection with swindling 6 million baht out of a British man in exchange for...
Thai women duped by work abroad scammers
A group of Thai women yesterday lodged a complaint with police against a local woman and her Korean husband over...
British jogger found dead floating face down in a canal
Police were investigating the mystery death of a British jogger who was found dead floating face down in a canal...
Two men arrested for ransom murder
Two Myanmar men have been arrested for the murder of the father of two local politicians after demanding 8 million...
3 dead in Indiana mall shooting; witness kills gunman
Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a...
Do not to give money to beggars
A senior Thai official has caused a controversy by urging his fellow citizens not to give money to beggars, saying...
‘Winnie the Pooh’ ecstasy No hunny, no money
A government patrol seized a quantity of ecstasy pills shaped like the fictional teddy bear Winnie the Pooh, along with...
British man found dead ‘after erotic game’ in hotel
The lovers’ ‘bedroom antics’ took a tragic turn when the 40-year-old man had a ‘fit’A 43-year-old woman believed to be...
Mexican drugs lord Rafael Caro Quintero arrested
Mexican drugs lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who is on the US most wanted list, has been arrested in the western...
Man in underpants Robin Hood burglar
Police recently arrested a serial phone thief who targeted branches of the Banana IT store chain in many provinces. CCTV...
Child rapist dies in a hail of bullets
Thai police have fatally shot a man wanted under suspicion of raping a child. The police were about to arrest...
900 hotel operators ,illegal construction on public land
Phuket is speeding up help to more than 900 small hotel operators affected by closure due to their illegal construction...
Woman rescued,Hostage-taker shot
Police rescued a woman held hostage by a homeless man armed with a hand grenade at a community in Muang...
Police searching for dad, 27,find four bodies in a pond
The bodies of three children were found inside a submerged car pulled from a pond in Indianapolis, Indiana last night, police said....
Mother pimped 9 yr old daughter out for sex
Police have widened their probe into a case involving a woman who pimped her nine-year-old daughter and sold the videos,...
Councillor Arnuparb Tarntong fighting sexual harassment allegations
Move Forward city councillor Arnuparb Tarntong reported to police on Wednesday to acknowledge and deny sexual harassment charges brought by...
Kingfisher tycoon Vijay Mallya sentenced to jail in India
India’s top court has sentenced tycoon Vijay Mallya to four months in jail for disobeying an earlier court judgement linked...
Crackdown on a major drug gang, seize assets worth about ฿100m
Anti-narcotics police announced the successful crackdown on a major drug trafficking gang today which has allegedly amassed assets worth about...
Husband admits choking wife to death after sex
A sadistic husband arrested after his wife was found dead at their home in Phutthaisong district, naked and with bite...
Shelter chief in child sex case
The deputy director-general of the Department of Children and Youth and a Surat Thani Shelter for Children and Families official,...
Women arrested, 1m meth pills
Two young women were arrested when one million methamphetamine pills were found in bags in their car after they were...
Film director held to ransom
The mother of famous action film director and fight choreographer Ramai “Danny” Moriphan filed a request at Royal Thai Police...
Health Minister Dont sell Covid Drugs Procured From Ministry
Hospitals are not allowed to sell Covid-19 antiviral drugs distributed by the ministry, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on...
Thais arrested in call-centre raids in Cambodia
Eighty-nine Thais were arrested during raids on call-centres operating scams from Cambodia and will be repatriated to Thailand for legal...
Fifteen shot dead in township bar
At least 15 people have been shot dead in a bar in the South African township of Soweto, police say....
Meth pills seized, 4 arrested
Police seized 4.7 million methamphetamine pills and arrested four men in Lampang province on July 6, a senior officer said...
Chiang Mai scammers tourists warned
The City of Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand has alerted citizens about a group of scammers who have been working...