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Phuket City Police Chief Col Sermphan Sirikong told the Gazette that forensic data is needed to move the case forward.

Thai officials examine the scene of a roadside explosion that killed five rangers and injured another in Pattani yesterday.

Bangkok, May 25 An Italian national, suspected of defrauding Italian lenders of over $8 million, has been arrested in Thailand and will be deported to his country, Thai police said.

This past Wednesday morning at 8:30AM, Nicolas Winding Refn's ninth feature film, Only God Forgives , premiered inside the Grand Lumiere at the Cannes Film Festival to a crowd of critics and press from all over the world.

The working group is authorised to propose policies on the development of border areas and transportation between the two countries, but will not be involved in border delineation.

A 17-year-old girl who was helped to leave South Korea after contacting a policeman on Facebook and complaining of forced prostitution will be brought in for further questioning after her aunt gave a different account of events, Pol Maj Gen Pol Maj Gen Chawalit Sawaengphuet said on Friday.

Pol Maj Gen Chawalit, commander of the Anti-Human Trafficking Division, announced this at a press conference after the girl's aunt, Phiangjai Kim, 37, was taken into police custody on her arrival at Suvarnanabhumi airport on Thursday night from South Korea.

"Let me first apologise for any inconvenience that has been caused, and rest assured that we are now working on the process, with the Deputy Prime Minister and the Board of Investment working on it," Ms Yingluck told a packed audience of investors and bankers in Tokyo.

Thailand has conceded to issues raised by a UN special rapporteur as alleged malpractice regarding freedom of expression and migrant labour, and to the fatal harassment of human rights defenders.

Red-shirt supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from various northeastern provinces have begun converging on Thung Srimuang open ground in Muang district of Udon Thani province for a "bring Thaksin home" rally, reports said.

Another suspect in the murder of the chief administrator of the Khon Kaen provincial administration organisation has been arrested, deputy police chief Pansiri Prapawat said on Friday.

Four paramilitary rangers were killed and two others wounded in an ambush when suspected rebels detonated a bomb buried in a road in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, local police said Friday.

Jeremy O'Neill, 37, believed to have been born in Basildon , was holidaying at Phuket, in the southern province of Thailand, when he was apparently swept out to sea at Patong Beach on Tuesday at about 5am.

The Royal Thai Navy took delivery of three new patrol boats to guard the coastline and provide security for the royal family.

Japanese investors are keen to invest in Thailand's high-speed train project, a flagship scheme of the Yingluck Shinawatra government, the prime minister's secretary-general Suranand Vejjajiva says.

Thai authorities have arrested an Italian man and a French woman who are both wanted on fraud charges in their respective countries.

Thailand's delegates to the World Heritage Committee meeting in June will oppose any discussion on the Preah Vihear temple, the government says.

The Department of Foreign Trade will host the Thailand Rice Convention 2013 in Chiang Mai to promote the country as a major rice exporter.

A lady boy was arrested just as he was undergoing surgery for a sex-change on Thursday and charged with stealing 300,000 baht from a Kuwaiti man to pay for the operation.

Davika Hoorne and Mario Maurer in 'Pee Mak Phrakanong' showing across Phuket. Their love is greater than war and death.