A 33-year-old Myanmar woman, who received officials’ warning for putting her seven-year-old daughter in chains in front of their apartment in Phuket’s Muang district, claimed she did so out of love and caring because the “naughty” girl could be harmed or run over by a car, officials said.

Two schoolboys aged eight and nine have brought the word “naughty” to another level by ransacking and vandalising another school's classroom in their neighbourhood in Si Sa Ket’s Phayu district, prompting the affected school to demand almost Bt63,000 in compensation from their parents.