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KHON KAEN: Officers at Muang police station in Khon Kean took time off from their routines yesterday (Sept 2) to help a pregnant female drug suspect give birth.

Latest Warrants for the arrest of eight people have been issued as the hunt for the Bangkok bombers continues, with the Uighur minority being looked at closely in Thailand.

TURKEY: A photograph of a toddlerʼs lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach after a migrant boat sank swept across Europe yesterday (Sept 2), in a poignant image of the refugee crisis.

BANGKOK: A Turkish connection to the Erawan shrine bombing hardened yesterday (Sept 2) when the Min Buri provincial court issued a warrant for the arrest of a Turkish national for illegal possession of war materials.

Latest Still using Burma and not Myanmar, Human Rights Watch says the country’s government should become tolerant to gay men and transgender women.

Phuket Updating Digest Phuketwan trial VIDEO; Bali police reportedly pay for bribes jobs; Graft fear in Thailand; Bomber hunt widens to eighth suspect; Phuket to gain yacht show.

Around the Region Trees are being chopped and the world is suffering; Malaysian police are to quiz former PM Mahathir about big scandal; Burma loses to Myanmar; Jobless in Philippines.

PHUKET: The Royal Thai Navy Area 3 Command has vowed to return in 15 days to a beachfront restaurant on Ley Pang beach that they were expecting to demolish today (Sept 2) but had to postpone because of a letter they had received from the Interior permanent secretaryʼs office on Monday (Aug 31).

PHUKET: Shark expert Tassapon Krajangdara, a specialist at the Phuket Coastal Fisheries Research and Development Centre, today confirmed that the sea animal that bit and seriously injured an Australian woman’s foot at Karon Beach this week was not a shark.