A Thai man was arrested early on Wednesday after he was caught transporting a Porsche supercar with fake licence plate from the Myanmar border to downtown Tak.

Amid growing concern over an epidemic of African swine fever in China, Suvarnabhumi airport will step up procedures to detect smuggled pork meat and swine products from that country.

Police and drug suppression officers recently seized 150 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine or “ice” smuggled from Chiang Rai to Bangkok and arrested nine gang suspects, a senior official said on Monday.

A total of 15 Myanmar migrants were arrested in two separated busts in the border province of Tak yesterday on charges of forging and using fake Thai visa stamps. Police believed that these people were involved with a human trafficking gang that smuggled people through Thailand to Malaysia, Tak Immigration Superintendent Pol Colonel Man Rattanapratheep said.

Forty-one pipe bombs intercepted on Thursday by Narathiwat police on the Thai side of the Malaysian border were intended for an attack on security officers and were made in Malaysia, police saidon Friday morning.

Undeclared Thai banknotes totalling Bt98 million have temporarily seized by the Anti-Money Laundering Office’s (Amlo)'s transaction committee after two Lao men were arrested last December while allegedly tried to smuggle them across the border from Nong Khai into Laos.

Accustions by a scholar in London that her prestigious institution possesses a 13th-century sculpture suspected of being looted from Thailand have re-alerted authorities here to illegal trafficking in Thai artefacts.

London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has denied claims the prestigious institution possesses a 13th-century sculpture likely smuggled from Thailand

Thailand’s ambassador to the UK has been instructed to contact the director of University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) over claims the prestigious institution possesses a 13th-century sculpture likely smuggled from Thailand, the Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday.

The Culture and Foreign ministries are following up an accusation made by London University’s prominent School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), that it accepted as a gift a 13th-century sculpture possibly smuggled from Thailand.

The Thai authorities on Wednesday morning rescued some 40 live pangolins, weighed 200kg in total, that were smuggled in 10 sacks in a boat across the Mekong River into Chiang Rai's Wiang Kaen district to be sold to restaurants and medicine shops. The pangolins were said to worth at least Bt615,000.

Police arrested 21 undocumented Myanmar migrants at a house in Hat Yai district, Songkhla province, on Friday evening.

Excise officials seized 15,000 packages of smuggled cigarettes in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district on Thursday evening.

Customs officials in Nong Khai intercepted 6,419 orchids of various species that were being smuggled into Laos.

Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities on Sunday night intercepted a haul of nearly 700 tortoises and water monitor lizards imported from Thailand.