Pathum Wan District

Thais on Oct. 11 wore pink for 88-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, a color they believe will help improve the monarch's health, two days after the palace said he was in an unstable condition. 

The ethnic Uighur accused of planting a bomb at a Bangkok shrine has admitted involvement in the deadly attack, his lawyer said on Sept.30, reversing earlier denials of a confession.

Police investigating the deadly Bangkok blast said they were seeking a Thai woman and an unidentified man after bomb-making materials were discovered over the weekend in a second apartment raided by police.
 

A foreigner detained by the Thailand police in connection with the deadly Bangkok bombing is not a Turkish citizen, according to the Turkish Embassy in Bangkok.

The unidentified foreigner, who is being held in military custody at an undisclosed location, was captured during an Aug. 29 morning raid on a flat on the eastern outskirts of Bangkok.

Thai authorities on Aug. 29 detained and charged a 28-year-old Turkish man over a bomb attack in Bangkok last week that killed 20 people and wounded scores more.

It is the first arrest in connection with the Aug. 17 bombing at the Erawan shrine in the capital's bustling downtown district, which killed mostly Asian visitors, in Thailand's worst single mass-casualty attack.

Thai monks led prayers Aug. 19 at a ceremony to reopen a Bangkok shrine hit by a deadly bombing, as police hunted a man seen calmly planting a backpack before the explosion that killed 20 people.

At least twelve people died and dozens were injured as a bomb exploded in central Bangkok on Monday.

The bomb exploded close to the famous Erawan Shrine located in the central Chidlom district of Thailand's capital, the BBC reports.

The explosion occurred on the Ratchaprasong intersection, which has been the site of political demonstrations in recent years.

A bomb on a motorcycle exploded on Aug. 17 just outside a Hindu shrine in the Thai capital, killing 27 people, including foreign tourists, media reported, in an attack the government said was a bid to destroy the economy.

A bomb on a motorcycle exploded on Aug. 17 just outside a Hindu shrine in the centre of the Thai capital, killing at least 12 people in an attack the government said was aimed at destroying the economy and the tourism industry.