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A 60-year-old British man was prevented from attempting suicide early Thursday morning after a security guard saw him walking in an abandoned building in Pattaya.

A piano teacher has been arrested for alleged indecent assault on a 10-year-old girl pupil at his music school in Bangkok.

The Thai embassy in Switzerland is asking the public to help find a 32-year-old Thai woman who was visiting the country with her foreign boyfriend but has not been in touch with her family for nearly a month.

Seventy-nine passengers and six crew members were still in Bangkok on Wednesday for treatment of injuries sustained during “extreme turbulence” on a Singapore Airlines flight that had to make an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday.

The annual wet season is officially here, with heavy rain reported over at least 60% of the upper regions of the country.

A Singapore Airlines flight that made an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport on Tuesday had fallen into an air pocket before it encountered turbulence, with one man killed and seven people critically injured on board, a senior airport official said.

Marine officials are investigating the cause of a fire that extensively damaged a luxury yacht moored in Phuket's Chalong Bay on Monday afternoon.

The government will host a five-day Pride event in Bangkok to show Thailand's readiness to be Asia's "rainbow" capital.

Police arrested an official of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration on Monday morning for allegedly demanding a nine-million-baht bribe for diverting a planned new road away from a golf course.

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin met Formula One organisers in Italy and said he hoped the construction of a Formula One racing circuit would start near U-Tapao airport in Rayong province in three or four years.

Two ancient bronze statues were returned to Thailand on Monday by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.