Senior police officer arrested in Loei for working with a drug network and passing on classified intelligence

Senior police officer arrested in Loei for working with a drug network and passing on classified intelligence

June 29, 2026

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Police arrested a Loei lieutenant colonel accused of leaking classified intelligence to a drug gang, helping traffickers evade arrest and hiding meth pills in his… Read More ›

People’s Party’s Pawut faces questioning as a witness on July 2 by the DSI in a complex forex fraud case

People’s Party’s Pawut faces questioning as a witness on July 2 by the DSI in a complex forex fraud case

June 29, 2026

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DSI investigators will question People’s Party MP Pawut Pongwitayaphanu over a ฿28 million transfer as a sweeping forex fraud probe deepens. The elite police inquiry… Read More ›

Bank of Thailand pushes a baht backed stablecoin but warns against Forex trading and payment gateways

Bank of Thailand pushes a baht backed stablecoin but warns against Forex trading and payment gateways

June 29, 2026

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Bank of Thailand will launch a baht-backed stablecoin while cracking down on speculative forex trading and foreign currency payments, as Governor Vitai Ratanakorn declares blockchain… Read More ›

International migration from West to East is a rising phenomenon now going far beyond ‘Passport Bros’

International migration from West to East is a rising phenomenon now going far beyond ‘Passport Bros’

June 29, 2026

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Western men are increasingly abandoning the US,  Britain and the West for new lives in Thailand, citing COVID, soaring living costs, remote work and changing… Read More ›

Chinese woman linked to huge 20 billion baht fraud arrested in Chiang Mai by Immigration Bureau cops

Chinese woman linked to huge 20 billion baht fraud arrested in Chiang Mai by Immigration Bureau cops

June 29, 2026

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Chinese fugitive “Madame Zheng” has been arrested in Chiang Mai after an international manhunt over an alleged ฿20 billion cloud investment scam. Police say more… Read More ›

Aussie arrested for murdering a teenage girl in Pattaya faces the death penalty if convicted by a Thai court

Aussie arrested for murdering a teenage girl in Pattaya faces the death penalty if convicted by a Thai court

June 29, 2026

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Australian Simon Carman faces Thailand’s death penalty after police say CCTV tracked him from a Pattaya hotel to a suitcase containing a murdered 17-year-old girl… Read More ›

Vietnamese woman slashed in Bangkok by obese man who told reporters he doesn’t like overweight people

Vietnamese woman slashed in Bangkok by obese man who told reporters he doesn’t like overweight people

June 28, 2026

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Homeless man slashes Vietnamese office worker with a box cutter in Bangkok’s Silom district before police hunt him down using CCTV. Officers say he admitted… Read More ›

Chadchart wins the Bangkok governor contest by a crushing landslide after a slick re-election campaign

Chadchart wins the Bangkok governor contest by a crushing landslide after a slick re-election campaign

June 28, 2026

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Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt is heading for another landslide as two major polls predict a crushing re-election victory, cementing the former coup detainee’s rise as… Read More ›

Parliamentary delegation inspects new Thai border fence with Cambodia in Chanthaburi. 45% complete

Parliamentary delegation inspects new Thai border fence with Cambodia in Chanthaburi. 45% complete

June 28, 2026

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Thailand’s new 8.3km border fence in Chanthaburi is 45% complete as a parliamentary delegation led by Monthian Songpracha inspects the project. Military chiefs say security… Read More ›

Police chief in Pattaya commends the investigative team that arrested Aussie murder suspect in 6 hours

Police chief in Pattaya commends the investigative team that arrested Aussie murder suspect in 6 hours

June 28, 2026

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Pattaya detectives have been honoured after tracking Australian Simon Peter Carman to Bangkok airport within six hours of the murder of 17-year-old Thanyachanok Donhomlao, whose… Read More ›

Tourism Minister to forge a stronger consultation process between the private sector and top officials

Tourism Minister to forge a stronger consultation process between the private sector and top officials

June 28, 2026

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Tourism Minister Surasak Phancharoenworakul has unveiled Thailand’s biggest tourism policy overhaul in years, proposing a new public-private decision system, a ฿3 billion stimulus, India visa… Read More ›

Bank of Thailand boss defends the central bank’s low interest rate policy aimed at boosting the economy

Bank of Thailand boss defends the central bank’s low interest rate policy aimed at boosting the economy

June 28, 2026

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The Bank of Thailand has defied mounting pressure to raise interest rates, keeping its benchmark at 1% as Governor Vitai Ratanakorn insists the baht’s slide… Read More ›

Commerce Minister Suphajee visits Brussels to push a badly needed Thai European Union trade pact

Commerce Minister Suphajee visits Brussels to push a badly needed Thai European Union trade pact

June 28, 2026

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Thailand has sent Deputy Prime Minister Suphajee Suthumpun to Brussels in a high-stakes bid to seal a landmark EU free trade pact after 13 years… Read More ›

Arrest and bail for controversial deputy Phuket governor as he is charged with exam corruption offences

Arrest and bail for controversial deputy Phuket governor as he is charged with exam corruption offences

June 27, 2026

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A Phuket deputy governor has won bail after his arrest over alleged cash-for-jobs payments linked to local government examinations, as a separate ฿4.5 billion recruitment… Read More ›

Aussie Simon Peter Carman charged with murder of teenager in Pattaya after being nabbed at the airport

Aussie Simon Peter Carman charged with murder of teenager in Pattaya after being nabbed at the airport

June 27, 2026

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Australian Simon Peter Carman, 46, has been charged with murdering a 17-year-old Pattaya sex worker after police say CCTV exposed him hiding her body in… Read More ›

46 year old Aussie arrested at Bangkok’s main airport charged with murdering a 17 year old prostitute in Pattaya

46 year old Aussie arrested at Bangkok’s main airport charged with murdering a 17 year old prostitute in Pattaya

June 27, 2026

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Australian Simon Peter Carman, 46, was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport while trying to flee after police say he murdered a 17-year-old Pattaya sex worker, hid… Read More ›

Miss Thailand Phuket runner up star accuses wealthy pageant sponsor of attempted rape at a Rayong hotel

Miss Thailand Phuket runner up star accuses wealthy pageant sponsor of attempted rape at a Rayong hotel

June 27, 2026

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Miss Thailand Phuket 2026 runner-up says a powerful pageant sponsor entered her hotel bathroom while she was naked in the shower and attempted to rape… Read More ›

Love rivalry sees 38 year old man executed, stuffed in barrel of cement and dumped in a Nonthaburi pond

Love rivalry sees 38 year old man executed, stuffed in barrel of cement and dumped in a Nonthaburi pond

June 27, 2026

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Love rivalry ends in execution-style murder as Nonthaburi police say a man was shot while asleep, sealed inside a cement-filled drum and dumped in a… Read More ›

New evidence of a vast conspiracy behind the 2024 Senate election as former officials file police report

New evidence of a vast conspiracy behind the 2024 Senate election as former officials file police report

June 27, 2026

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Thailand’s Senate election scandal is reaching its climax as the Election Commission weighs sending 229 suspects to the Constitutional Court amid explosive new evidence, secret… Read More ›

Beijing unveils ‘security partnership’ with Phnom Penh ahead of a visit in July by Prime Minister Anutin

Beijing unveils ‘security partnership’ with Phnom Penh ahead of a visit in July by Prime Minister Anutin

June 27, 2026

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China has unveiled a sweeping security pact with Cambodia covering defence, policing and cybercrime as Beijing deepens its military footprint ahead of Thai PM Anutin’s… Read More ›

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