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A British tourist drowned at the Surin beach in Phuket Wednesday afternoon but his son was saved thanks to the quick actions of a lifeguard, police said.

An elderly British man was found dead in the early hours of Wednesday inside a movie theatre at a Pattaya shopping mall, police said.

Police are defending their decision to charge a Briton with theft of a mobile phone at Chiang Mai International airport, despite his insistence that he intended to return it to its owner.

Koh Phi Phi police have been cracking down on illegal workers on the islands and have arrested a British national along with five Burmese workers on Tuesday.

A Thai woman severely injured her British husband with a knife following a quarrel at their rented room in Pattaya early on Tuesday, police said.

A British man who was sentenced to 50 years in prison in Thailand for possessing ecstasy, is set to be transferred to the UK to serve the remainder of his sentence.

A British man has complained to police in Pattaya that 1,000 pounds sterling in cash and a diamond ornament worth Bt100,000 were stolen from his room sometime Saturday.

A British man charged with trafficking 1.3 tons of cocaine into France was on Thursday described in court as a "big fish" in the international narco-trade.

The bodies of a Briton and his Thai wife were found buried about 2 metres deep on their property in Phrae Muang district on Tuesday after they went missing on September 19.

Pattaya police on Monday arrested two transvestites for allegedly stealing cash and a credit card from a British tourist and using the card to buy Bt120,000 worth of gold ornaments.

While police are looking into a British woman’s claim that she was raped on Koh Tao in June, the Love Koh Tao Club on Tuesday called for her to file an official police complaint.

A Briton, 60, was fatally injured while apparently speeding to escape being caught with drugs in Udon Thani on Thursday night, police said.