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Police have arrested a member of a gang that used a bad cheque to buy gold bars valued at 2.59 million baht from a dealer in Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan province.

Police have arrested a member of a gang that used a bad cheque to buy gold bars valued at 2.59 million baht from a dealer in Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan province.

A massive power failure has affected more than 8 million people in Thailand's 14 southern provinces, including popular tourist areas such as Koh Samui and Phuket, in one of the country's biggest blackouts in recent memory.

His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam yesterday called for greater cooperation among Asia-Pacific countries, especially Asean member states, to address the increasing demand and rising costs of water, food and energy to meet the needs of the world population.

His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam consented to leave Chiang Mai, Thailand, yesterday afternoon after attending the 2nd Asia-Pacific Water Summit .

The police's Anti-Human Trafficking Division yesterday applied for an arrest warrant for a Thai woman who allegedly lured her 17-year-old niece into prostitution with a well-paid job in South Korea.

The incident occurred at about 5 am in Prachin Buri, 100 kilometres north-east of Bangkok, Police Sergeant Chaimongkol Chaiya said.

Gross domestic product increased 5.3% in the three months through March from a year earlier, after expanding a revised 19.1% in the previous quarter, the National Economic and Social Development Board said in Bangkok on Monday.

Hotel construction report summarizing the pipeline for Asia Pacific, USA, Sth America and more regions around the world.

Mahidol Wittayanusorn School in Nakhon Pathom has become part of the exclusive German network "Schools: Partners for the Future" . There are 10 schools in Thailand in this prestigious network, an initiative of the German Federal Foreign Office.

A government handout photo shows Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, right, shaking hands with Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong during the second Thai-Lao Joint Cabinetmeeting in Chiang Mai yesterday.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili discussed the issues of bilateral relations with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra.

Crime novelist Christopher Moore is a well-established and popular writer of dozens of books depicting Southeast Asia's vibrant underworld.

Six newly appointed assistant teachers in Nakhon Ratchasima accused of being involved in exam cheating will be dismissed - while the Department of Special Investigation has called for an ultimate total of 344 people allegedly involved in the scandal to lose their jobs as government officials.

The tragic death of two toddlers - 3-year-old Nong Oey in Samut Prakan and Nong Potter in Si Sa Ket - who were left forgotten in school vans for several hours after school, represent negligence at kindergartens, as these kids are unable to care or survive by themselves.

PHUKET: Two Australian tattoo parlor owners are now out of prison after mistakenly shooting two German tourists while trying to gun down alleged Danish mafioso Dennis Mark Knudsen on January 22.

Psychiatric Social Worker Dr Ruangsit Netnuanyai, 36, is a Phuket native who has been working at Vachira Phuket Hospital for 13 years.

Capt Nucharee Longkaew , the Phuket City Police specialist officer for interviewing victims of sex crimes, said the case is still under investigation.

Four suspects were arrested yesterday in connection with an explosion at a Narathiwat hotel in the morning that left six people injured.

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