Police captain spent 200 days undercover as a temple boy at Wat Rai Khing to expose the abbot, who allegedly embezzled 300 million baht for gambling.

Two Vietnamese fishing boats with their 11 crew members were escorted back to the shore of Songkhla's Muang district on Thursday to face prosecution for allegedly fishing in Thai waters, said the director of the Fisheries Department's Prevention and Suppression Centre in Songkhla, Charoen Omanee.