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Thailand will deploy 30,000 police officers to safeguard security for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting to be held in Bangkok on November 18 and 19.

Thailand’s Immigration Bureau unveiled its online visa extension (e-extension) service on November 8.

Thailand will establish a cyber police unit to counter high-tech crimes, with more than 1,700 "cyber police officers" to be stationed across the country to handle computer-related offences, Bangkok Post reported on June 12.

Police of Thailand said three men were killed and another was wounded by a gunman at a state-run radio station in the northern province of Phitsanulok on May 27.

Thai police announced on February 4 that two Taiwanese men have been caught when trying to smuggle 15kg of heroin in packets of instant noodles from a Bangkok airport.

One police officer was killed and another was wounded in a bomb blast in Thailand’s southern province of Yala on November 21.

Thai police on September 5 publicised evidence that showed former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had left the country.

Thai police revealed that Watana Pumret, aged 62, a former engineer of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, is the suspect of the bombing at a military hospital in Bangkok in May.

Malaysian police are on alert following recent reports that Islamic State (IS) militants are planning terror attacks in Thailand.