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Police successfully persuaded a gunman to surrender after he released hostages, including his ex-wife, at a school in Maha Sarakham on Thursday.

A Canadian national was arrested in Chiang Mai after opening an emergency door on a Thai Airways International (THAI) flight bound for Bangkok, triggering the emergency evacuation slide.

Despite the threat posed by gang rivalries with other schools, first-year students can still enrol at the Uthenthawai campus of Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok (RMUTTO), the minister for higher education said on Tuesday.

Education Minister Permpoon Chidchob is still receiving negative comments more than three weeks after expressing his admiration for North Korea's education system.

The Customs Department has been told to ban Chinese imports of elephant-patterned pants as the pattern's copyright has now been registered, the Commerce Ministry said on Monday.

The government will organise World Songkran Festival activities nationwide from April 1-21, according to a spokesman.

Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin made a surprise visit to Suvarnahabhumi airport on Monday, and told officials to speed up immigration and baggage claim for travellers.

Two foreign men, a Swede and a Briton, fell to their deaths in Pattaya about half an hour away from each other early Sunday.

A British man has been arrested in Bangkok on charges of buying sex from underage girls following the arrest of two women acting as procurers in Hua Hin last August.