enlarge Alexander Winstone, 36, looks during a press conference in Bangkok on Friday. He was charged after sending e-mail messages to Tesco superstore in UK, demanding two million pounds (Bt136 million). He threatened to poison food in Tesco in UK if his demand was not met.//Photo by Wanchai Kraisornkhajit
Today's Big Stories
Former TRT MPs meet to show unity
Some 150 former MPs from the disbanded Thai Rak Thai Party on Friday held a meeting to demonstrate their political relevancy and vowed to carry on their activities under a new party.
L.A. court to weigh Paris Hilton's jail release
Los Angeles - Celebrity socialite Paris Hilton faces a court hearing Friday on whether she should return to jail after being released early to finish her 45-day sentence confined to her Hollywood home.
Briton charged of blackmailing Tesco issues apology
A British man has confessed Friday that he tried to blackmail the superstore giant Tesco in Britain via e-mails sent from an internet café in Soi Nana, Bangkok.
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'Infected' man preyed on 200 kids for ransom, sex
Bangkok police have arrested a 25-year-old man who they say posed as a school inspector to kidnap or abuse about 200 students over the past three years.
Scotland Yard helps hunt Tesco blackmailer
Thai police are working closely with Britain's Scotland Yard in a bid to track down a man who threatened to poison food sold in outlets of the retail giant Tesco if it failed to give him around £2 million (about Bt136 million).
TOT gears up for 2 months of AIS talks
A committee set up by TOT to revise the concession contract of Advanced Info Service (AIS) is expected to finish guidelines for negotiating the revisions with AIS within one week.
Lifters eye two gold
[WEIGHTLIFTING] Thai lifters are eyeing two gold medals in the 33rd Men's and 13th Women's Junior World Weightlifting Championships in Prague from Sunday.
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Alexander Winstone, 36, looks during a press conference in Bangkok on Friday. He was charged after sending e-mail messages to Tesco superstore in UK, demanding two million pounds (Bt136 million). He threatened to poison food in Tesco in UK if his demand was not met.//Photo by Wanchai Kraisornkhajit
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