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Soonthorn Vilawan, one of the seven suspects in a fatal shooting in Prachin Buri, is not eligible for a jail term suspension, says Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong.

GENEVA - Punitive drug policies have driven mass incarceration and grave human rights violations, says the Global Commission on Drug Policy in a new report.

MAGDEBURG, Germany - The death toll in a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five people, and more than 200 have been injured, many of them seriously, state premier Reiner Haseloff said on Saturday.

A rebel army in Myanmar says it has captured a major military headquarters in the country’s west, marking the fall of the junta’s second regional command as it faces mounting setbacks against a nationwide armed resistance movement.

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

One man’s warning could ignite another man’s yearning for a general election, not that one is in the pipeline.

Kaprao Khao Boom in Bangkok’s Bang Bon district, good food meets a good cause. This eatery, open for eight years, feeds the hungry with healthy, hearty meals starting at just 20 baht, or even for free.

RECAP: Asian equities declined on Friday and the dollar traded near a two-year high as investors continued to fret about the likelihood of fewer US interest rate cuts in the coming year.

Songsak Thongsri, the Deputy Minister of Interior, said the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) appears to be at fault in a land dispute in Khao Kradong, Buri Ram.

The government will determine where casino-entertainment complexes will be located to ensure fairness among bidders in the project, if the bill legalising gambling in the country becomes law, Deputy Finance Minister Julapun Amornvivat said.