Thai court denies bail for activists on hunger strike over royal insults
A court in Thailand on Thursday denied bail for seven detained activists accused of insulting the king, two of whom have deteriorating health from more...
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Thirty Cypriots repatriated from Thailand
Thirty Cypriots who were stranded in Thailand amid the coronavirus pandemic have been repatriated, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Friday. Among the repatriated passengers...
Netflix signs deal for Thai cave boy rescue miniseries
Netflix said on Tuesday it had secured the rights to make a miniseries about the dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from...
Living the nightmare: Thai teenagers’ ordeal after the rescue
By Andonis Vassiliades On June 23, a group of Thai teenagers got trapped in a chamber four kilometres deep inside the Tham Luang cave labyrinth...
Messages and hashtags: Thai cave rescue dominates social media
Audiences around the world cheered the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand with messages of support as the...
‘Hooyah!’ Tears flow, horns honk after Thai cave boys rescued
Honking car horns and live “selfie” videos – this is how some Thais in the northern city of Chiang Rai and beyond celebrated on Tuesday...
Rescuers begin ‘challenging’ final push to free last 5 from Thai cave
The third phase of an operation to rescue four remaining boys and their soccer coach trapped inside a flooded Thai cave began on Tuesday morning,...
Rescuers bring eighth person out of Thai cave (Update 4)
Rescue workers in Thailand brought out four people on Monday from a flooded cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped for more...
Thai minister blames Chinese tour operators for boat disaster
A Thai government minister on Monday blamed Chinese tour operators for the deaths of more than 40 people, most of them Chinese tourists, in a...
Four Thai boys rescued from cave; dive operation to resume Monday (Update 4)
By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat Four of 12 Thai schoolboys were rescued from a flooded cave on Sunday as divers launched a daring and...
Deaths in Thailand tourist boat accident ‘up to 60’ (Update)
Thai rescuers deployed helicopters on Friday in a search for 29 people missing after the sinking of a boat carrying Chinese tourists, with one official...
One rescuer dead, boy’s rescue mission difficult
A Thai rescuer died during an operation to save 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped inside a flooded cave complex, the latest setback for...
Trapped Thai team gets dive lessons as extraction looms
Rescue teams in northern Thailand were giving crash courses in swimming and diving on Wednesday as part of preparations to extract a young soccer squad...
Thai boys’ cave ordeal not over as rain threatens [video]
Rescuers raced to pump water from a cave in northern Thailand on Tuesday as forecasted heavy rain threatened to complicate efforts to free a young...
Thai divers cling to hope of finding lost boys in cave
By Panu Wongcha-um Having failed to find any sign of 12 boys and their soccer coach during a week-long search of flooded cave complex in...
Thai police drop survival packages into cave for lost boys
As a search in northern Thailand for 12 boys and their football coach missing inside a flooded cave entered a sixth day on Friday, police began dropping...
US forces, UK divers join search for 13 boys lost in Thai cave
US forces and British divers have arrived in Thailand to help in the search for 12 schoolboys and their football coach believed trapped by floodwaters in a...
Thailand searches for soccer team trapped in flooded cave
Thai authorities said on Tuesday they were making every effort to find a missing teenage soccer team trapped in a cave complex, as concern for...
Dead whale spotlights Thailand’s losing battle against plastic
A pilot whale that died after ingesting rubbish has highlighted Thailand’s losing battle against plastic, said conservationists who called for urgent measures to cut back...
Thailand frees former magazine editor jailed for royal insult
A high-profile Thai activist and former magazine editor jailed for insulting the country’s monarchy vowed on Monday to keep pressing his call for democracy after...