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The Police Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) will raise an objection with the attorney-general over public prosecutors' decision not to indict former People's Party candidate Boonyarit Raorungrot on drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
Displaced persons from Myanmar living in temporary shelters along the Thailand-Myanmar border began receiving Thai non-national identity cards this week.
With one week to go before the Bangkok gubernatorial election on June 28, former Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt continues to lead all other candidates by a wide margin, according to NIDA’s latest opinion poll.
A new round of negotiations over the Middle East war was set to kick off Sunday, with Iranian negotiators arriving in the Swiss host city hours ahead of US Vice President JD Vance, even as Tehran said it was closing the Strait of Hormuz again over Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
The man killed in the collapse of a concrete canopy attached to a century-old commercial building in Bangkok's Samphanthawong district yesterday had just arrived to pick up his wife when the accident occurred. He was the only person killed in the collapse.
Two were killed and three others seriously injured after a heavy installation component fell onto them inside a railway tunnel under construction in Chiang Rai province on Saturday.
One person was killed and a number of cars were damaged when the concrete balcony awning of an old two-storey building on the Charoen Krung Road, in Talad Noi area of Samphanthawong district of Bangkok, collapsed on Saturday afternoon.
Major crackdowns on nominee-owned businesses were launched simultaneously today in Phuket, Phang-nga and Krabi provinces, as well as on Pha-ngan Island in Surat Thani province, targeting mainly real estate majority-owned by Thai nominees on behalf of foreign partners.
The Department of Business Development (DBD) has escalated its crackdown on foreign-owned businesses operating illegally through Thai proxies, forwarding the financial profiles of 53 corporate entities, in Bangkok's Huai Khwang district, to the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) for financial tracing.
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has claimed that 28 million baht was transferred to the bank account of a company linked to People’s party MP Pawoot Pongvitayapanu in 14 transactions of two million baht each on July 18, 2024, but is insisting that the lawmaker is not regarded as a criminal suspect.
The Meteorological Department has issued a warning of heavy downpours across Bangkok and its vicinity, the East and the extreme South today, advising residents to brace for flash floods.
A majority of respondents to a recent opinion poll are satisfied with the government’s ‘Thai Chuay Thai Plus’ economic stimulus scheme, with many preferring it over the previous ‘Khon La Khrueng’ (Half-Half) co-payment program.
The commissioner of the Region 8 Provincial Police Bureau, Pol. Lt Gen. Sitthichai Lokanphai, has been transferred to an ‘inactive post’, at the Operations Centre of the Royal Thai Police, over leaks on social media of details of a recent meeting of senior police officers.
ZURICH (AP) — The American push to quickly begin high-stakes talks with Iran hit a snag Friday, just days after the signing of an agreement that opens a two-month window for negotiations on Tehran's nuclear program and returning oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to prewar levels.
Paris (France) (AFP) – Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz rose to its busiest in two months after a deal to halt the US-Iran war, maritime trackers said on Friday.
The opposition People’s party has lined up about 30 MPs to grill the government over its budget bill for the 2027 fiscal year and an additional of 10.3 billion baht budget this year to be used to compensate border villagers affected by the war between Thai and Cambodian troops late last year.
