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Police nab suspect in staged car crash insurance scam
News, Online Reporters, Published on 25/08/2025
» Police have arrested a 26-year-old man accused of deliberately driving vehicles into waterways in order to fraudulently claim insurance payouts totalling around one million baht.
Thai govt hails use of 1441 cybercrime hotline
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 22/12/2024
» The damages caused by cybercrime have plummeted by 44% since the 1441 Anti-Online Scam Operation Centre (AOC) Hotline was established last year, according to the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society.
Thai economy 'most tiresome' thing in 2024: poll
Online Reporters, Published on 22/12/2024
» Most Thai people say economic, cybercrime and political problems were the three most tiresome things in 2024 but they were happy with their life overall during the year, according to a survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.
New chief vows to curb crime
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 17/12/2024
» National Police Chief Pol Gen Kittharath Punpetch has pledged to uphold the law and police professionalism, protect life and property, and prevent and detect crime.
New threats in regional drugs fight
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 16/12/2024
» Cross-border and multisectoral cooperation among countries in the greater Mekong subregion (GMS) is needed to mitigate illicit drugs, says the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Elections still too bloody
News, Editorial, Published on 16/12/2024
» The brutal assassination of Chaimet Sitsanitphong, a provincial council member, at the home of Soonthorn Vilawan, president of the Prachin Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO), has sent shockwaves across Thailand.
Loan shark targets ministry canteen in Bangkok
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 15/12/2024
» Two people have been arrested in the food court at the Ministry of Culture’s office in Bangkok's Huai Khwang district for loansharking, the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) said on Sunday.
Bail upheld for Thai MP appealing lese-majeste conviction
Wassayos Ngamkham and Online Reporters, Published on 11/12/2024
» Rukchanok Srinork, a People’s Party MP who is appealing convictions for lese-majeste and computer crime, on Wednesday survived an attempt to have her bail revoked.
Uniting against cyber-scam gangs
Oped, Fuad Adriansyah & David Scott, Published on 11/12/2024
» In recent years, a novel form of criminality has rapidly expanded across Southeast Asia, leaving in its wake a trail of human exploitation, financial harm, and, in many parts of the region, a weakening of the rule of law. Cyber-scam centres, operated by sophisticated transnational organised criminal groups, have emerged as a serious threat to both national and human security across Southeast Asia.
Suspects held after fatal stabbing
Post Reporters, Published on 09/12/2024
» Four men were arrested on Sunday in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old in Bang Kae district on Saturday night, police said.