BANGKOK (AP) — A police officer who allegedly gunned down his wife at the kindergarten where she was a teacher in eastern Thailand surrendered Thursday after an overnight standoff with authorities, officials said.
Tatsapong Tongthat, an officer at the Bang Lamung station in Chonburi province, allegedly killed his wife late Wednesday morning inside a building at the Nongplalai Municipal Kindergarten about 150 kilometers (93 miles) southeast of the capital Bangkok, according to the provincial government.
Authorities said he fled to his home after the shooting and police surrounded the house, where he remained until surrendering after an 18-hour standoff.
All 44 students at the school were unharmed and evacuated with other teachers after the shooting. Classes were suspended until Friday as a safety precaution, officials said.
School safety and gun violence in Thailand have come under scrutiny after a 14-year-old opened fire at his high school and family home on Aug. 7, killing eight people and injuring more than 20 before apparently taking his own life.
Another 14-year-old student was arrested Sept. 2 after he fired several shots but failed to injure anyone at his school in Kamphaeng Phet province, 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Bangkok.
Calls for tighter controls on firearms have intensified and the national government has ordered a review of gun regulations, including suspension of new permits to purchase firearms and a review of existing permits.
Thailand has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Asia despite fairly restrictive gun laws. While mass shootings are still rare, Thailand has seen an uptick in high-profile attacks in recent years.
In this photo released by the Chonburi government's Public Relations Department, police officers gather inside Nongplalai Municipal Kindergarten after a gunman fatally shot a teacher in Chonburi, Thailand, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Chonburi Government Public Relations Department via AP)
OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 10, 2026--
Cyviz AS has delivered a flexible collaboration hub for Swiss International Air Lines Ltd. (SWISS), designed to support hybrid meetings, workshops, training, town halls, and internal events at scale. The project highlights how global enterprises are investing in reliable, intuitive, and versatile collaboration environments as hybrid work becomes embedded in day-to-day operations.
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Located at SWISS headquarters in Zurich-Kloten, Switzerland, the new collaboration hub demonstrates how enterprise collaboration spaces are evolving from traditional meeting rooms into strategic workplace infrastructure. Delivered by Cyviz, the environment supports a wide range of hybrid formats while making advanced room technology simple for everyday users.
Designed to switch seamlessly between separate and combined room configurations, the space enables everything from team meetings and workshops to training sessions, quarterlies, town halls, and internal events. The project addresses a growing enterprise need for collaboration environments that support multiple use cases while remaining intuitive and dependable.
For SWISS, three priorities shaped the project from the outset: flexibility, simplicity, and reliability. The system needed to support technically advanced room configurations while ensuring a seamless experience for end users.
"What stands out with Cyviz is the commitment, the responsiveness, and the ability to react quickly when something is important. The room is technically complex, but for users it feels simple. That gives us confidence in the solution," said Stefano Buonaiuto, Head of IT Operations at SWISS.
The project also reflects a broader shift in workplace technology. High-visibility collaboration spaces increasingly serve as multifunctional hubs for decision-making, training, communication, and culture-building across distributed teams. As a result, expectations for operational consistency, user adoption, and support responsiveness continue to rise.
"For global enterprises, the most valuable collaboration spaces are the ones people trust enough to use every day," said John V. Laerhoven, Sales Director at Cyviz. "The challenge is to make complex environments easy to use, reliable to operate, and flexible enough to support how people actually meet, train, and make decisions.”
The deployment aligns with Cyviz' strategy of helping organizations create more predictable and resilient technology environments. By combining room-level usability with greater visibility, standardization, and operational control, the solution enables organizations to manage growing workplace technology complexity while supporting productivity, collaboration, and culture within a single integrated environment.
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Inside the SWISS collaboration hub at their headquarters in Zurich
