People’s Party drops candidate after online gambling arrest
The People’s Party has suspended Ratchapong Soisuwan, a candidate for the Feb 8 general election in Tak province, following his arrest for alleged involvement in online gambling.

Thai woman arrested in Japan for brokering in Thai girl sex work case
KYODO — A Thai woman has been arrested in connection with a high-profile Tokyo case alleging that she arranged for a then 12-year-old Thai girl to engage in sex work, police said.

PM ends Italian-Thai contracts after deadly crane collapses
Caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered the Ministry of Transport to terminate two contracts with Italian-Thai Development Plc (ITD) following crane collapse incidents that resulted in over 30 deaths.

Dead to Rights: When the camera becomes a weapon
Reload. Aim. Shoot. The verbs describing life-taking actions with a gun can also describe reloading film, framing a shot, and operating a camera. Dead to Rights (2025), a fictional retelling of the Nanjing massacre, draws a horrendous parallel between guns and cameras as instruments of war.

Yahoo shuts down search in Thailand
Yahoo has ceased its search operations in Thailand, leaving users unable to access the platform without a workaround.

Winter Olympics venue warns selfie tourists
ROME - As Italy prepares to host the Winter Olympics next month, Alpine communities are sounding the alarm over social media-driven tourism that is transforming sacred landscapes into selfie backdrops and ‌straining the fragile mountain ecosystem.

Trump says Zelensky holding up Ukraine peace pact
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump told Reuters that ​Ukraine — not Russia — is holding up a potential peace deal, rhetoric that stands in marked contrast to that of European allies, who have consistently argued Moscow has little interest in ending its war in Ukraine.

World Cup ticket requests top 500 million
The random selection draw phase for 2026 World Cup tickets has concluded, with more than half a billion requests ‌submitted, Fifa announced on Wednesday.

Iran denies death-sentence reports
An Iranian protester who the United States feared faced imminent execution will not be sentenced to death, the judiciary said on Thursday, while President Donald Trump said he would “watch it and see” about threatened military action.

Nationwide emergency alert test set for Jan 20
A nationwide test of the mobile phone emergency alert system will be conducted on Jan 20 at 2pm, with messages sent to millions of users across all 76 provinces and Bangkok, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said on Thursday.