Law & Order

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Hundreds of illegally caught aquarium fish were confisticated from a house in Phuket. The owner of the house hired local fishermen to catch the fish with cyanide in coral reefs around the islands of Ko Racha and Ko Khai.

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An M79 grenade exploded on Tuesday at a house 200 metres from the Bangkok residence of the president of the Thailand's Supreme Administrative Court. On the same day, the company of Bhumjaithai Party leader Newin Chidchob's father-in-law was target...


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Thai police are searching for two men suspected of killing Bannang Sata police chief Colonel Sompian Eksomya, fatally wounding a senior sergeant major, and injuring two other officers in the southern Thai province of Yala last Friday.

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A Bangkok court Monday sentenced a British national to 14 years in jail for luring two underage boys and sexually abusing them.


Grenade fired into Bangkok army compound, injuring 2 soldiers; Suspect arrested

Thai police arrested and questioned a suspect on Monday after an M-79 grenade had been fired into the compound of the First Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment near the Victory Monument in Bangkok. The compound is the official residence of Army...

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Thai police seized more than 5,000 grenade launcher components at an illegal suburban factory in Samut Prakarn province Sunday.


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The Center for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) has launched a new website (www.capothai.org) to keep the public informed about the mass demonstrations by the red-shirted UDD supporters.

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A senior police officer nearing retirement after serving more than 20 years in the violence-affected areas in the southern Thai provinces, and being for 40 years in total in service, was killed on Friday in an ambush by suspected Muslim militants.


List of potentially dangerous areas throughout Bangkok

The following areas in the Thai capital might be considered as dangerous.

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Suspected Muslim insurgents on Thursday shot dead three Thai telephone repairmen and a 61-year-old salesman in two incidents in the southern Thai province of Pattani.


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Since Thursday midnight, the internal security law has been enforced and military, police and civilian forces are deployed at security checkpoints have been set up around the Thai capital, ahead of the upcoming anti-government mass demonstrations ...

Thai PM warns of possible grenade attacks in Bangkok; Security tightened for airports, public transport

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has ordered his cabinet to be alert, in case the emergency rule needs to be declared following the enforcement of the Internal Security Act (ISA) tomorrow.


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Thailand's anti-government 'Red Shirt' protesters besieged a Bangkok police station on Saturday after a man, who had posted a YouTube video warning of violence in the capital, was arrested.

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Thai police have arrested a man in connection with bomb attacks at four branches of Bangkok Bank in the capital on February 27, and two anti-government protesters.


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Thai police have seized 1,000,000 amphetamine pills worth over Bt150 million from a pickup truck in Chiang Mai's Phrao district.

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A nine-year-old Swedish girl narrowly escaped death, after a box jellyfish attacked her this week in the waters of the holiday island Koh Mak in the Gulf of Thailand. According to media reports, only the fast actions of a well-trained Swedish fire...


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Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra failed to report his ownership of Shin Corp shares in his assets declarations, when he held political office, according to a National Anti-Corruption Commission inquiry panel.

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Thai police on Tuesday arrested a Chinese national suspected of drug trafficking and will deport him in response to a request from Chinese authorities, the head of Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said Tuesday.


2 wounded in bomb attacks targeting banks and ATMs in Southern Thailand

Five small bombs planted by suspected insurgents exploded Tuesday outside banks and ATMs in southern Thailand, injuring two people, local police said. Another three bombs were defused.

Father and daughter shot dead in Pattani; Bomb wounds five in Narathiwat

Suspected Islamic insurgents shot dead a father and his 7-year-old daughter on Tuesday in the southern Thai province of Pattani, while a roadside bomb imjured five soldiers.



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