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Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in his home province of Chiang Mai on his private jet on Thursday morning - his first trip following his release on parole last month.

Tour operators have shared public concern over a possible ending of visa-free travel to Japan as the number of Thais overstaying has soared.

The Sa Kaeo Juvenile and Family Court on Wednesday fined the parents of a group of teenagers accused of killing a 47-year-old woman 5,000 baht each.

A Russian man was found slashed to death on Wednesday afternoon in a rented house in Phuket where cannabis plants were being grown.

A Russian man has been arrested for illegally operating a vehicle rental business with one Honda motorbike on Koh Phangan.

Rules will be strictly enforced to make water-splashing venues nationwide completely free of alcohol during the Songkran festival next month, officials said on Tuesday.

An American teenager is wanted after he was caught molesting at least two pregnant horses in Phuket, causing one of them to miscarry.

The Royal Forest Department (RFD) says it is working with other agencies to reclaim land encroached on by a private company on Nui beach in Phuket.

Police are looking for a former boyfriend of a Myanmar woman whose body was found in a pond behind a temple in Nakhon Si Thammarat.

Six airlines will add 104 flights and give a discount of about 20% on early morning and late night domestic flights during the Songkran holiday.

Three members of a Western African drug network have been arrested in connection with more than five kilos of cocaine being smuggled into the country from the US on March 6, the Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) said on Monday.