Killer Confesses to Massacre A recently fired police officer who jumped bail on a murder charge has confessed to killing his friend, a police lieutenant, alonf with his wife and two children, in a roadside slaughter in Pathum Thani, police investigators said. Former Pol Lt Montree Kaewrat, a former detective at Bang Bua Thong district [...]

Drought Disaster Strikes Thailand Thailand’s Interior Ministry’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department on Friday declared that 53 provinces – 382 districts, 2,499 tambons and 1,9,704 villages – throughout the country have been proclaimed disaster areas because of water scarcity. Of the 53 regions, 16 are in the North, 15 in the Northeast, eight in the [...]

Thaksin Lawyers Back Again Lawyers for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will today present what they claim is new substantiation to the Supreme Court in an effort to win a new trial over the confiscation of the bulk of the former prime minister’s Thai monies. Noppadon Pattama, Thaksin’s legal adviser, said yesterday that the [...]