The Latest Breaking News from Bangkok Post

Thai authorities on Wednesday raided a company in Nakhon Pathom that has been linked to an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle a gorilla into the country.

The Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) has set a new maximum speed limit of 60 kilometres per hour for most roads in the city, exempting major thoroughfares, and 50kph near the Grand Palace, effective immediately. 

A taxi registered in Bangkok collided with a truck and a police vehicle as its driver fled a Chaiyaphum petrol station without paying for fuel.

A member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club has been sentenced to death and two others given life imprisonment for the murder of a German property broker whose dismembered body was found in a freezer in Pattaya last year.

A visitor was detained after swallowing a traffic ticket when police stopped his motorcycle Saturday evening.

At just 16 years old, Phoonseeraah “Ada” Tieanworn is revolutionising consent education in Thai schools with her innovative “Consent Game.” A student at Choate Rosemary Hall in the United States, Ada has already reached over 700 students across seven Bangkok schools, introducing lessons on respect, boundaries, and effective communication.

An Austrian man was arrested in Krabi on Thursday for allegedly driving a jet ski that struck and killed a Russian man off Karon Beach in Phuket on Tuesday.

A man fatally shot himself after killing two people in the northeastern province of Beung Kan on Thursday.

Police are collecting information on transgender people working at a well-known nightlife area in Phuket to enhance public safety.