The Latest Breaking News from Bangkok

Hundreds of freight trucks deliberately clogged a major thoroughfare of Thailand's notoriously congested capital on Tuesday, seeking to pressure the government into lowering diesel prices.

The Appeal Court has upheld the lower court’s sentencing of a senior official at the National Anti-Corruption Commission to one year in jail, suspended for two years, and fining him 31,000 baht for threatening a taxi driver with a pistol at the government complex in Bangkok in October 2018.

Crime Suppression Division police raided premises in Bangkok and two southern provinces on Tuesday morning, launching a move against a major drug network and arresting a prime suspect.

Smog blanketed Greater Bangkok on Tuesday morning with the worst pollution in Wang Thonglang district of the capital city.

Tourism receipts in 77 provinces set another historic low in 2021 with revenue declining by 69.55% to 241,350 billion baht, while the income gap between Bangkok and other major provinces remained wide, according to the Tourism and Sports Ministry.

Just two weeks after the tragic accident in which Dr Waraluck Supawatjariyakul, an ophthalmologist with the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University, was killed by a high-powered motorcycle as she walked across Phayathai Road at a zebra crossing, another death on a pedestrian crossing was reported in Bangkok.

Chadchart Sittipunt, the former transport minister in the Yingluck Shinawatra administration running as an independent in the upcoming Bangkok gubernatorial election, still leads other potential candidates by a huge margin, according to a monthly survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.

Nearly 90% of vehicles do not stop at crosswalks in Bangkok despite the presence of pedestrians, says a Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) study.

The Land Transport Federation of Thailand (LTFT) is gearing up for a fresh rally on Tuesday in Bangkok to pressure the government to bring down the price of diesel.

A former staffer at Australia's embassy in Bangkok has been charged after multiple spy cameras were found in women's bathrooms at the mission, a Canberra official said on Saturday.

A former locally engaged staff member at Australia's embassy in Bangkok is charged by Thai police after spy cameras were discovered directed at women's showers and toilets inside the secure government building.