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Thai Deputy Police Chief Srivarah Rangsipramanakul said on October 14 that the police have not found any terrorist threats in and around Bangkok.

Thailand’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) confirmed security alerts in Bangkok and ordered to set up checkpoints and conducted searches on October 11.

Thousands of Thai police and soldiers conducted a large examination of nine suspect locations in Bangkok to track down criminals and foil schemes that threaten the national security.

Violence recurred in southern Thailand when gunmen attacked a primary school in Narathiwat province, killing one person and injuring two others, Thai police said on September 29.

Thai police said on September 5 they had arrested a suspect linked to Muslim insurgents in connection with the bombings in tourist towns last month that killed four people and wounded dozens.

A Thai man masterminding the trafficking of Myanmar’s Rohingya migrants has been jailed for 35 years, a Thai court said on September 1.

Thai police on August 24 released sketches of four male suspects in the bombings of Hua Hin resort and Phang Nga province two weeks ago.

The Thai Government announced on August 24 that there was no link between the two bomb blasts which killed one person in Pattani on August 23 night and the previous string of bomb attacks.

The Vietnam-Thailand Joint Working Group on Politics and Security (JWG) convened its eighth meeting in the central province of Thanh Hoa on August 24.

Thai police on August 24 reported that one person died and 30 others were injured in two explosions near Southern hotel in Pattani town in the southern region on the night of August 23.

Thai police on August 22 said at least 20 people were involved in carrying out a series of deadly bombings in the country's south earlier this month.

Thai police announced that an 80-kilogramme bomb was found and neutralised in Rueso district of the southern province of Narathiwat on August 21.

Thailand’s police force on August 19 identified a Thai man as a suspect in a wave of bombings that killed four people and wounded dozens in seven southern provinces.

A Thai military court on August 16 issued an arrest warrant for a second suspect in connection with the series of bomb attacks in seven southern provinces of the country last week.

Thai police have found several explosive devices that failed to detonate in three popular tourism spots over the weekend, reported Thailand’s Interior Ministry on August 14

An undisclosed number of political figures in the south of Thailand, including some red-shirts, have been detained and are being interrogated as part of an investigation into the recent bomb attacks.

Thai police affirmed on August 14 that they know who was behind a series of bombings that rocked well-known tourist destinations across the south.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered the intensification of security in densely-populated cities and areas, especially tourist destinations, across the country.

Two more bombs exploded in the Thai seaside resort of Hua Hin, 200 kilometres south of Bangkok, on early August 12, claiming a life and injuring three others, Thai police said.

The Thai Government will deploy about 200,000 police in order to ensure security for a referendum on a new draft constitution slated for August 7.