A mother and her boyfriend admitted to police that they physically assaulted her 4-year-old son mainly because he “wet his bed”.

Following the case of a woman who developed a severe infection in her thumb that spread to the bone after a manicure and the application of false nails at a salon in Southern Thailand, the Department of Health’s director general, Dr Panpimol Wipulakorn has warned people to be wary of unsanitary services and dirty tools and that can lead to purulent wounds.