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The Department of Special Investigation has arrested a Chinese executive of the construction company that was building the State Audit Office tower in Bangkok, where dozens of people died when it collapsed during the March 28 earthquake.

Hotels in Chiang Mai offered lower room rates than last year to draw last-minute domestic travellers, whose confidence was still shaken by last month

An elderly couple were injured when a BMW driven by a member of a prominent political family hit their pickup truck on Bangkok’s eastern outer ring road in Pathum Thani province on Wednesday morning.

Traffic accidents killed 171 people and injured 1,208 others during the first five days of the Songkran holiday, as of Tuesday night.

A park ranger drowned while trying to retrieve a mobile phone a visitor dropped into a stream inside a cave in Kanchanaburi on Tuesday afternoon.

The number of road accidents and injuries has passed 1,000 in the first four days of the Songkran holiday travel period, with some holidaymakers beginning their trips back to Bangkok on Tuesday.

A 26-year-old British man whose family had not heard from him in over a month was found safe on Tuesday afternoon in Krabi.

A drunk man in his 30s rammed his speeding pickup truck into a crowd of Songkran festival revellers and injured many people in Chachoengsao on Monday night.

A policeman bravely saved a woman who was attacked by a swarm of bees at a famous Buddhist temple in Nakhon Phanom on Sunday.

A minor earthquake was detected in Nuea Khlong district in the southern province of Krabi Monday afternoon and it was felt in two districts.

Two Italian tourists have been rescued from a jungle on Koh Phangan after they lost their way during a trek.