Police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon on anti-government protesters on Saturday, the culmination of a running battle in which demonstrators were forced to change their destination three times.

PHUKET: Police have arrested a 27-year-old Thai man who has reportedly confessed to the murder of a Swiss tourist, two days after her body was found at a local waterfall.

The Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) will deploy at least 5,700 officers to ensure public order and security during Saturday's anti-government rally in the capital.

The government has expressed sorrow over the murder of a Swiss government official in Phuket as police investigators ramped up their efforts to catch her killer.

The Civil Court on Friday ruled in favour of the media by issuing an injunction suspending Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s regulation restricting freedom of speech and threatening internet censorship.

An actor in a popular TV series has been detained by police after his girlfriend died from multiple stab wounds at a townhouse in Bangkok in the early hours of Friday.

The Ministry of Public Health says provincial hospitals are taking care of almost 100,000 Covid-19 patients transferred from Bangkok.

Nearly 100,000 Covid-19 patients in Bangkok have now been placed in home isolation as cases continue to soar in the country.

The director of state-run Bangkruai Hospital in Nonthaburi has been arrested for allegedly demanding a 35% commission fee from a contractor of a 280,000-baht computer system.

PHUKET: Authorities will help tourists under the Phuket sandbox scheme who have stayed in the province for 14 days but could not go elsewhere due to new Covid-19 restrictions.