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Seventeen Lao women and two Thai employers were arrested during raids on karaoke bars and restaurants in Chon Buri's Laem Chabang in the early hours of Thursday.

A music teacher at a well-known public school in Bangkok has admitted sexually abusing a 15-year-old student for almost two years after more than 100 video clips of the abuse were found on his phone.

Pheu Thai leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Wednesday her father Thaksin was just joking when he told party MPs on Tuesday he was ready to work as her assistant if asked, a remark which could put the party at risk of dissolution.

Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsutin said on Wednesday a survey of about 100,000 people found most respondents wanted the recriminalisation of cannabis, and he would make it happen.

A Swiss man who has run a barber shop on Koh Phangan for nine years has been arrested for working in an occupation reserved for Thais.

A Police Commission meeting will be held today to discuss the fate of deputy police chief Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Tuesday.

Graft-busters accuse seven customs officials of helping supercar importers evade duty totalling 897 million baht by accepting unrealistically low car valuations.

Bangkok Airways and Thai Airways International have seen their rankings rise in this year's world's best airline awards.

The father of a 5-year-old girl will press charges against the parents of two 12-year-old girls who made the young child engage in sex acts with a 7-year-old boy while they filmed them.

Another tour firm in Germany has filed for bankruptcy, but the impact should be less than the recent FTI insolvency, according to the Thai Hotels Association (THA).

A French national who allegedly claimed to be a religious leader was arrested on Koh Phangan on Sunday and charged with overstaying his visa, police said.