The incident in which a one-month-old baby was snatched from his 30-year-old mother in Surat Thani’s Muang district on Monday, took a new twist police investigation revealed a custody battle between the child’s adoptive mother and his 18-year-old biological mum, police said on Tuesday.

A motorcyclist snatched a gold necklace worth Bt200,000 from a Chinese tourist in Pattaya in the early hours of Monday.