A BRITISH journalist with the BBC is facing the prospect of spending up to five years in a Thai prison over his 2015 investigative report on a land scam case in Phuket. The journalist, BBC’s Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head , was hauled to court Thursday where he and another defendant in the case, Ian Rance, pleaded not guilty to criminal defamation.

A 21-year-old Australian woman was killed in a jet ski crash after she collided with her boyfriend off the coast of Thailand’s Phuket island, police said Monday. The woman, identified as Emily Collie, was brought to the shore of Kata beach after the accident on Sunday but was pronounced dead soon after, said Patiwat Yodkwan, a senior police officer on the island.

A 20-year-old Australian woman was killed in a jet ski crash after she collided with her partner off the coast of Thailand’s Phuket island, police said Monday. The woman, identified as Emily Collie, was brought to the shore of Kata beach after the accident on Sunday but was pronounced dead soon after.