England scrapping jury trials for some crimes
LONDON - Juries will be scrapped in England and Wales for a range of criminal trials, including the most complex financial crime, in the biggest shake-up of the country’s justice system in decades.

Carbon taxes part of new Thai climate law
The cabinet has set out plans for carbon taxes and an emissions trading system under Thailand’s first formal climate change legislation.

Honduran ex-president walks free after Trump pardon
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez was released from prison in the United States on Monday, where he was serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and firearms charges, a Federal Bureau of Prisons registry showed.

Indonesians blame deforestation for flood devastation
South Tapanuli, Indonesia - Reliwati Siregar gestured angrily at deforestation around her home on the island of Sumatra, where landslides and floods brought by a tropical storm killed more than 700 people in its deadliest disaster since a cataclysmic tsunami in 2004.

Bangkok Post Editor answers Redditors
Bangkok Post Editor Soonruth Bunyamanee joins an AMA (Ask me anything) session on www.reddit.com/r/Thailand which he was asked questions about press freedom, journalism ethics, and the challenges facing the media in Thailand, as well as the future of traditional media in the digital era.

Hat Yai faces mental health crisis
The southern floods and their aftermath have led to rising psychological distress among Hat Yai flood victims, with new assessments showing 65 people at risk of suicide, according to the Department of Mental Health.

Flooding leads to downgrade of GDP forecast
The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC) has reduced its economic growth projection to 1.9% this year from 2%, mainly due to the Hat Yai floods, which are expected to cause losses of at least 40 billion baht.

Authorities insist flood death toll won’t surpass 1,000
The Ministry of Public Health has rejected claims of excessively underreported flood deaths, insisting the figures it has released are accurate.

Long-running legal dispute over Thai gold mine ends
The Thai government and the Australian mining company Kingsgate have agreed to end a long-running legal dispute that stemmed from the government-ordered closure of the Chatree gold mine in northern Thailand in 2017.

Cabinet rejects extra-holiday plan for 2026
The cabinet on Tuesday scrapped a plan to create additional holidays next year to promote tourism in Thailand, as ministers fretted about disruption of economic activity.