City Hall workers collected 391,027 krathong floats from local waterways after Wednesday night’s Loy Krathong festival, a decrease of 24% from last year.

A Russian man who was seen applying QR code stickers advertising illegal drugs for sale on street poles in Phuket has been arrested after fleeing to Koh Samui.

Authorities say they believe 42 Chinese nationals who were arrested at a resort in Chanthaburi province on Tuesday night were preparing to cross into Cambodia to join a call centre scam operation.

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has called for sexual harassment to be made a crime nationwide after being groped on the street in an attack that underscored the dangers women in the Latin American country face.

PHUKET - Heavy rain caused severe flooding in tambon Patong, putting a damper on Loy Krathong festivities on Wednesday night.

Typhoon Kalmaegi was moving over the South China Sea early Thursday and will reach central Vietnam by Friday, before weakening and arriving in northeastern Thailand later the same day, according to the Meteorological Department.

A Malaysian court has found the police liable for the forced disappearance of a Christian pastor and awarded more than $7 million in damages to his family in a landmark ruling.

UDON THANI - A 49-year-old man in this northeastern province has vowed to stop eating dogs, a habit since adolescence, after a deliveryman found him eating raw dog meat on Tuesday.

The Thai motorcycle market is expected to remain sluggish through the final quarter of this year, with low motorcycle loans among the factors dealing a blow to domestic sales, says Thai Yamaha Motor, the distributor of Yamaha motorcycles.

Global crude oil and gas prices are expected to keep falling next year, easing the financial burden of the debt-ridden Oil Fuel Fund, says the Oil Fuel Fund Office (Offo).