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BANGKOK( Reuters)-A 49-year-old Briton was found dead at his home with knife wounds in western Thailand, and a Thai suspect was in custody, police said on Sunday. Another British man, 55, suffered injuries and was in hospital, police in Kanchanaburi province said, adding that further evidence was being collected.A Thai man was suspected of attacking the two with a rice sickle for drinking and playing music loudly, police said, according their preliminary investigation. Police and forensic examin

BANGKOK( Reuters)-A former soldier fired gunshots in a coronavirus field hospital in Thailand on Thursday, killing a 54-year-old patient after earlier shooting dead a convenience store employee, police said.... The suspect, 23, believed that the patients in the hospital in Pathum Thani near Bangkok were drug addicts and that he hated drug addicts, regional police chief Amphol Buarabporn told Reuters, after an initial investigation.... In February last year, a soldier killed 29 people in a rare

BANGKOK( Reuters)-Thai police on Saturday said that a man had been taken into custody for the death of a Swiss tourist on the island of Phuket earlier this week.... It's finished," police chief Suwat Jangyodsuk told reporters.... He said a suspect had been detained, but did not give further details when responding to questions from reporters....

BANGKOK( Reuters)-Hundreds of Thai pro-democracy protesters took to the streets on Thursday, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and constitutional changes that would curb the influence of the country's powerful monarchy.... " The constitution must come from the people," protest leader, Jatupat" Pai Daodin" Boonpattararaksa, told the crowd in the capital Bangkok.... " In 89 years since the end of absolutism we have not got anywhere," Jatupat said....

" Police have charged the offender for murder and robbery causing death," Krisana Pattanacharoen, a deputy police spokesman said at a news conference in Phuket.... " The cause of death has yet to be confirmed and autopsy has yet to be released," he said....

BANGKOK( Reuters)-Thai health authorities warned on Wednesday that residents should brace themselves for a potential jump in coronavirus cases after classifying the country's first cluster of the Omicron variant as a super-spreader incident.... In the first two weeks of January, government employees have been advised they can work from home, coronavirus taskforce spokesman Taweesin Wisanuyothin told a separate briefing, where he urged the private sector to follow suit.... After detecting the f

BANGKOK( Reuters)-Thailand's narcotics board on Tuesday said it would remove cannabis from its drugs list, paving the way for households to grow the plant.... The move is the latest step in Thailand's plan to promote cannabis as a cash crop.... About a third of its labour force works in agriculture, according to the World Bank....

LOPBURI, Thailand( Reuters)-Watched by tourists and locals, thousands of monkeys in Lopburi in central Thailand feasted on two tonnes fruits and vegetables after the town's Monkey Festival resumed following a two year hiatus caused by the pandemic. Hundreds of macaques, also known as long-tailed monkeys, were seen climbing on people and stacks of fruit, munching away on bananas and pineapples. The feast, which cost over 100, 000 baht($ 3, 000), is an annual tradition for locals to thank the monk

BANGKOK( Reuters)-Thai authorities have postponed until next month a hearing with influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on whether to indict him over a royal insult complaint, officials said on Wednesday.... The complaint by the royalist military that ousted the government of Thaksin's sister stemmed from an interview he gave to foreign media in 2015.... Pheu Thai leads the current government, with Thaksin's business ally Srettha Thavisin prime minister and daughter Paetongtarn