"booze"

On a recent mid-January afternoon, the eight seats at the Shoe Bar in Nordstrom's new women's store were empty. "It's Dry January. People are broke," a bartender observed.

Tourist police on Tuesday (November 19) announced they had arrested 63-year-old Malaysian national Chan Fat Yat, who is also known as “David the king of fake-branded booze”. Police were tipped off to his nefarious career when customs founded a box addressed to Chan packed with bottles, corks, and fake labels of well-known alcohol brands.

Drinking alcohol in excess can harm your health – but so can an attempt to quit it “cold turkey”, a senior health official warned on Wednesday.

DRINKERS are being kept on tenterhooks after a ministerial panel on alcohol control has not yet decided whether to ban sales of booze during the upcoming Songkran festival.

Rows of yellow-labelled whiskey bottles sit alongside imported French wines, while cans of Korean beer chill in the fridge: with Iraq's Mosul free of jihadists, the booze is back. 

Police are focused on summoning six Thai celebrities whose pictures with alcoholic beverages were posted and shared on social media. Authorities are considering charges for violating the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.