Much-publicised Bahraini fugitive footballer Hakeem al-Araibi on Monday thanked Thai prison officials and other detainees for their care and help during his two-and-a-half month stay in jail, Corrections Department chief Narat Sawetanun said on Tuesday.

GOVERNMENT spokesman Lt-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd said yesterday that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had expressed his thanks to former Democrat prime minister Chuan Leekpai for his concerns and suggestions on plunging household incomes of people in the South.