Thailand has become the first Southeast Asian nation to legalise the use of marijuana for medical use and research. The junta-appointed parliament voted 166-0 to amend the Narcotic Act of 1979 to legalise the medicinal use of marijuana. Marijuana was used in Thailand to relieve pain and fatigue until its use was criminalised in the country in the 1930s.

Ten Indian men and 24 Thai women have been arrested in Thailand on charges of forging documents and filing falsified papers to authorities about their marriages, media reports said on Wednesday. They had allegedly produced the falsified marriage certificates to district officials so that they could be legally allowed to reside and take care of their fake spouses, the police added.

Over 100 chimneys are being drilled into a mountainside to rescue the 12-member teenage football team and their coach trapped inside a cave in Thailand. The chimneys may help rescue them from above if the cave's underground chambers get flooded. "Some chimneys are as deep as 400 metres... but they still cannot find their location," said the mission's head.