"discovered"

A bat that could be a member of an American boy band, a gibbon with a Star Wars name and a toad straight from Tolkien's Middle Earth are among the 157 newly discovered species in the Greater Mekong region described by the world’s scientists in 2017.

Police are investigating the origin of three M4A rifles and 964 bullets that were discovered on Saturday inside large PVC pipes hidden in thick bushes within a tapioca plantation in Chacheongsao province.

Security is being tightened in Bangkok and neighbouring provinces following the discovery this week of a large cache of military weapons in Chachoengsao, purportedly stored in preparation for an attack in the capital.