Air India flight makes emergency landing in Thailand after bomb threat
An Air India flight from Thailand’s Phuket to India’s capital New Delhi received a bomb threat on Friday and made an emergency landing on the island, airport authorities ...
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Thailand holds its first same-sex weddings, targets record registrations
Thailand on Thursday became the first country in Southeast Asia to hold legal same-sex weddings, with LGBT groups aiming to mark the occasion with more than 1,000 marriage registrations in a ...
Thai hospital says 43 people from Singapore Airlines flight still under treatment
Forty three people who were on board a Singapore Airlines SIAL.SI flight that hit severe turbulence remain hospitalised in Bangkok four days after the emergency, a hospital in the ...
Fighting flares at Myanmar-Thai border as rebels target stranded junta troops
Fighting raged at Myanmar’s eastern frontier with Thailand on Saturday, witnesses and Thailand’s government said, forcing nearly 1,700 civilians to flee as rebels pressed to flush out junta troops ...
Misuse of cannabis forces Thailand to ban recreational use by year-end
Thailand will ban recreational use of marijuana by the end of this year but continue to allow its use for medical purposes, the health minister told Reuters in an interview.
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13 Danish tourists injured in Thai bus crash, driver killed
More than a dozen Danish tourists in Thailand were injured after a bus lost control and crashed in the northern Mae Hong Son, a remote mountainous province, officials said on ...
Another round in Thailand’s quest for genuine democracy
There have been occasional violent episodes in Thai politics and one recent massacre (2010), but the struggle for a genuine democracy has usually been relatively restrained. Maybe that is why it ...
Day after Thai attack, traumatised relatives cling to slain children’s toys
Crying and clutching toys, traumatised relatives gathered at a child day care centre in Thailand where a day earlier a former policeman had slain 34 people, most of them children, in ...
Ex-cop kills 22 children, 12 others in Thai mass shooting
A former policeman killed 34 people including 22 children in a gun rampage at a daycare centre in Thailand on Thursday, later shooting dead his wife and child at their home before ...
Thai night club fire kills at least 13, cause unknown
At least 13 people were killed and 35 injured when a fire broke out at a night club in Thailand’s eastern Chonburi province early on Friday, a police official said.
The ...
Thailand legalises growing, consumption of marijuana
Thailand legalised the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on Thursday, the first Asian country to do so, with the aim of boosting its agriculture and ...
Thai volunteer takes to skies to drop supplies to flood victims
A paramotoring enthusiast in northern Thailand has taken to the skies to help deliver urgently need supplies to people cut off by floods.
Thrill-seeker Vichai Tiyasan, 38, has been motoring over ...
Thai protesters defy detention of leaders to hold “car mob” rally
Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters drove a convoy of cars and motorcycles through the capital of Bangkok on Tuesday, amid rising anger over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by ...
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 than a month of hunger ...