OJ Simpson, the American football star who was acquitted in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife but was found responsible for her death in a civil lawsuit and was later imprisoned for armed robbery and kidnapping, has died at the age of 76.
SONGKHLA: A man from Myanmar has been arrested for using a hammer to bash the head of his Belgian boyfriend in a fit of jealousy at an apartment in Hat Yai.
New releases that hit cinemas in Thailand this week.
Police in London are facing public criticism of their slow response to calls from worried friends of a 27-year-old Thai woman who was found stabbed to death in her home in a £4-million property in Westminster.
A former illegal overseas migrant worker has been placed on suicide watch after being arrested for killing his 10-year-old daughter at a resort in Uttaradit, the provincial police said on Thursday.
Samana Phothirak, founder of the Santi Asoke movement, passed away on Thursday morning from natural causes at the age of 89, according to a post on the Facebook account of Boonniyom TV.
Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered the Phuket governor not to allow lobbying in an assault case involving a Swiss man, amid reports that the complainant had been approached about withdrawing her case.
The Thai Industry Sentiment Index (TISI) rose to 92.4 points in March, driven by more goods production ahead of the Songkran festival and growing domestic demand for durable goods, according to the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI).
HANOI - A court in Vietnam on Thursday sentenced real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death for her role in a $12.5-billion financial fraud case, the country’s biggest on record,
The owner of mishandled cadmium waste has postponed his meeting with police, while his wife also faces charges after more of the hazardous substance was found at a company she owns in Bangkok.
A young man and his teen brother have been arrested for making and selling guns online, with 28 home-made guns, more than 1,500 bullets and other items seized in Muang district of Chachoengsao province.
A proposed canal in Cambodia is the latest China-funded infrastructure project in Washington’s crosshairs.
The Democrat Party has launched a fact-finding investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct involving a party member and a Buddhist monk, following the circulation of a video online which sparked widespread criticism.
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Thursday said an interest rate cut by the Bank of Thailand (BoT) would have been good for the Thai economy, in a response to the bank's decision to hold interest rates steady.
MYAWADDY - Some 200 Myanmar military personnel withdrew to a bridge connecting the border town of Myawaddy to Thailand on Thursday following a days-long assault in the area by anti-junta rebels, according to an ethnic armed group spokesman and local media.
Bangkok stood as the only city blanketed by red-coded (seriously hazardous) levels of fine dust pollution among 63 provinces battling thick smog late Thursday morning, according to the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda).
A fire broke out in a residential building in Hong Kong's bustling Kowloon district on Wednesday, killing five people and injuring over two dozen, the city's hospital authority and fire services said.
China expects to make progress on an advanced aeroplane engine, a bigger commercial jet, and an amphibious search-and-rescue aircraft under a government plan to upgrade production equipment across industries through 2027 and improve the economy.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has expressed confidence that Thailand is on track to recycle all plastic waste by the year 2027.
Water management agencies have been told to regularly report their progress in implementing 10 key measures to cope with this year's rainy season, which forecasters have said would be an unusually wet one.
The Bank of Thailand is expected to start cutting the policy rate before mid-year as inflationary pressure has eased following six consecutive months of prices contracting, while the economy is underperforming, according to economists.
Although the second quarter is considered the low season, Thai tourism is forecast to earn 614 billion baht in revenue as domestic trips exceed the first-quarter tally thanks to Songkran events this month, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, leader of the Pheu Thai Party and deputy chair of the National Soft Power Strategy Committee, has had her plan for the upcoming Songkran holiday questioned. She wants to fly to Hong Kong with her family instead of staying in Thailand.
The Ombudsman has been asked to petition the Constitutional Court to rule whether the Thai-Cambodian memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in 2001 on joint development in the Gulf of Thailand is in breach of the Thai constitution.
The Constitutional Court may allow the Move Forward Party (MFP) more time to file its defence in the dissolution case against it, the court's president, Nakharin Mektrairat, said on Wednesday.