CHIANG RAI – Thai police have arrested a 23-year-old man from Chiang Rai at a Bangkok bus terminal. The arrest happened just hours after his release from prison for a previous offense. Special Operations officers caught the suspect at the Mor Chit 2 bus station on Friday evening. The suspect, identified publicly as Mr. Hawk, […]

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BANGKOK – Police have made a major drug bust that highlights a growing and dangerous trend. They arrested a Nigerian man and two Thai women, seizing a massive 65.5 kilograms of heroin. Police say the group is part of a wide network that uses online romance scams to trick local women into the illegal drug […]

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BANGKOK - The Royal Thai police say they are still looking for a Canadian and a Cambodian after breaking up a cross-border romance scam that allegedly took almost $705,000 from a Thai single mother over more than two years.

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