Swede Found Hanging in Abandoned Sathon Unique Tower in Bangkok
The Sathorn Unique is a 49-story building, located in downtown Bangkok, built in 1990. At 80% construction, it was abandoned in 1997 and never completed. BANGKOK – Police and a forensic team were...
View ArticleThai Health Ministry Warns of Chicken Pox in Winter Months
CHIANG RAI – Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has stepped up surveillance measures against chickenpox, which has reportedly intensified during winter.Sources at the Ministry of Public Health said...
View Article10 Countries Join International Balloon Festival in Chiang Mai
Thailand International Balloon Festival 2014 CHIANG MAI – More than30 large-scale balloons from 10 countries have been dispatched in this year’s Thailand International Balloon Festival 2014, being...
View ArticleTyphoon Hagupit Survivors in Philippine Find Homes in Ruins Again
A man is seen on top of his damaged house in Tacloban, central Philippines on Dec 7, 2014. Typhoon Hagupit tore apart homes and sent waves crashing through coastal communities across the eastern...
View ArticleThailand Faces Serious Challenges on Constitution Day
This holiday commemorates Thailand’s adoption of a constitutional monarchy in 1932. . . BANGKOK – December the 10th is Constitution Day in Thailand, in other international arena’s it’s known as Human...
View ArticleThailand’s Military Led Government Mulls Over Another Amnesty Plan
A pro-government demonstrator points at a soldier during the cleanup of a protest site BANGKOK – Thailand’s military installed government is mulling an amnesty plan aimed at national reconciliation,...
View ArticleKachin People in Chiang Dao Mark Kings Birthday with Manau Festival
Members of northern Thailand’s Kachin community were joined by visitors from Burma, as well as their Jingpo and Singpho cousins from China and India, for a Manau celebration in honor of the Thai King’s...
View ArticleBus Crash Kills Driver, Injures 15 in Phetchaburi Province
A tour bus driver died and 15 passengers injured when a Bangkok-Krabi inter provincial bus hit at the rear of a container truck on Phetkasem highway in Phetburi province PHETCHABURI – Pol Lt Col...
View ArticleUN Report: Opium ProductionThrives in Southeast Asia’s “Golden Triangle”
A worker in Myanmar’s Shan state preparing to lance a poppy bud to get the opium resin CHIANG RAI – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has reported that Opium production in...
View ArticleUnited States Arms Still Flowing into Thailand Despite Military Coup
General Prayuth Chan-ocha at an Arm Show BANGKOK – In the six months since Thailand’s military coup, the United States has exported tens of millions of dollars’ worth of military equipment to the...
View ArticleGerry Lester “Bubba” Watson all the talk in Thailand
Gerry Lester “Bubba” Watson, Jr. is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. One of the few left-handed golfers on tour, he is a multiple major champion, having won the Masters...
View ArticleRoyal Thai Navy Helicopter Rescues Greek Climber on Koh Larn Island, Pattaya
Greek tourist Bouras Thedoras KOH LARN – A Royal Thai Navy helicopter was called into action to rescue a Greek tourist Bouras Thedoras on Tuesday evening after he was stranded on a cliff on Koh Lan...
View ArticleBan Wiang Ka Long Being Promoted as a New Tourist Attraction in Chiang Rai
Wat Wiang Ka Long . . CHIANG RAI – The Village of Ban Wiang Ka Long, one of the OTOP Village Champions (OVC) in Wiang Ka Long District, Chiang Rai, is being promoted as a new tourist attraction....
View ArticleThailand Wins Over Philippines to Advancing to AFF Suzuki Cup Final
Thailand goal-scorers Kroekrit Thawikan (R) and Chanathip Songkrasin celebrate their victory against Philippines in their second leg semifinal match of Suzuki Cup 2014 in Bangkok Wednesday. BANGKOK –...
View ArticleThai Government Denies Hosting Secret CIA Prisoner Center
He said Thailand never hosted any secret prisons or interrogation complexes. BANGKOK – According to Prime Minister’s Office Minister Suwaphan Tanyuvardhana, there has never been secret jails used by...
View ArticleChiang Rai Hill Tribe Communites Receive Blankets as Temperatures Drop
CHIANG RAI – Blankets and warm clothes have been distributed to ethnic communities in Northern Thailand as the temperature continues to decrease. Around 13,000 ethnic people living in the...
View ArticleKoh Tao Murder Suspects ask for Aung San Suu Kyi’s Help
Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo SURAT THANI – Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, the two suspects in the murder of two British tourists in Thailand, have asked fellow Myanmar national Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi...
View ArticleIndian Gems Dealer Mysteriously Falls to his Death in Bangkok
BANGKOK – Police in Bangkok were called to the Thai Sathit condominium complex in Bangkok after a 56-year-old Indian gem trader mysteriously fell to death from the eighth floor of a 15-storey...
View ArticleSwiss National Hato Mussi Detained Over Dead Thai Woman Found in Suitcase
Police Believe Hato Mussi,is man in CCTV Footage AYUTTHAYA – Immigration Police in Ayutthaya Province have detained Swiss National Hato Mussi in connection with a brutally murdered sex worker from the...
View Article3.3 million Baht Raised for Students Effected by Cold Weather in Northern...
CHIANG RAI – Officials from the Office of Basic Education Commission (OBEC) have organized a caravan of school and sports supplies as well as jackets and blankets to help students effected by cold...
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