Flash Flood Shuts Down Chiang Mai Waterfall
CHIANG MAI — A waterfall in a Chiang Mai national park was shut down Friday due to heavy rain and flash flooding.
View Article‘Sad’ Parents Not Suspects in 6th Grader’s Fatal Fall
BANGKOK — A sixth grade student fell to his death Friday from a condominium near BTS Talat Phlu in the Thonburi district.
View ArticleTourist Runs Into Traffic Because ‘Mom Didn’t Buy Happy Meal’ (Video)
PATTAYA — An Indonesian tourist ran into a Pattaya street and put himself in harm’s way Tuesday, reportedly after being given pizza instead of a Happy Meal by his mother.
View Article5 Scuba Students Drown When Boat Capsizes in Gulf
CHUMPHON — Four members of a group who headed out from Bangkok to learn scuba diving died Wednesday night along with one instructor after their boat capsized during a heavy rainstorm in the Gulf of...
View ArticleTruckload of Pigs Drown Miserably After Truck Plunges Into Canal
SUPHANBURI — Bommin Natthongin recalled Thursday that when he arrived on the scene to find more than 80 pigs drowned and dozens more struggling for air, it reminded him of a slaughterhouse.
View ArticleThai Man Living in Florida Found Dead Along Oklahoma Highway
CROMWELL, Oklahoma — State investigators have identified a man whose body was found on the side of a highway in central Oklahoma as a native of Thailand who had been living in Florida.
View ArticleForeigners Accused of Drowning Dog in Pattaya Sought by Police
PATTAYA — Police said Wednesday they don’t expect to find two women who allegedly drowned a dog at Jomtien Beach.
View ArticleStorm Storms Into Bangkok as Millions Reel From Flooding
BANGKOK — A Wednesday afternoon storm heralded what could be a relatively wet week for the capital, though nothing to cause the level of devastation still being felt across much of the country, where...
View ArticleMan Teases Captive Black Bear, Gets Mauled
PHETCHABUN — A man was severely injured by a bear kept captive at a monastery on Wednesday.
View ArticleKorean Man Falls to Death at Pattaya Condo
PATTAYA — A Korean man was found dead in front of a condominium early Thursday morning.
View Article30 Provinces on Flash Flood Alert, Death Toll Climbs to 23
BANGKOK — Thirty provinces, many already struck by disaster, are at risk of flash floods and landslides through the weekend, disaster officials warned Thursday, while the death toll from the current...
View ArticleChula Professors Tackle Student Trying to Leave Initiation (Video)
BANGKOK — Students who attempted to leave a freshmen initiation ceremony Thursday afternoon at Chulalongkorn University were tackled by professors, some of whom then tried to take the phones away from...
View ArticleWeather Foils Recovery of Missing Thai Students in California
FRESNO, California — Weather conditions have delayed the recovery of a car believed to contain the bodies of two Thai students from a river canyon in central California, foreign ministry officials...
View Article30 Injured on Phuket Mountain as Bus Left Hanging by a Thread (Photos)
PHUKET — Thirty people were injured when a bus left the road and nearly plunged down a steep mountain slope after colliding with other vehicles in Patong, local police said Monday. The bus, which was...
View ArticleChula Retracts Statement Sliming Student, Yet Bad Taste Lingers
BANGKOK — Chulalongkorn University offered a muddled response over the weekend to controversy over a professor placing a student in a chokehold during a freshman initiation ceremony.
View ArticleOuting Turns Terrifying for Family Trapped at Phatthalung Waterfall
PHATTHALUNG — Nine tourists had to be rescued Monday after they became trapped by flash flooding on a rock at a popular waterfall spot in the south.
View ArticleChula Investigates Student President Over Initiation Altercation
BANGKOK — Chulalongkorn University is investigating the student activist it earlier blamed for an altercation during freshman induction in which a professor put a student in a headlock.
View ArticleElephant Devours Durian in Daring Dawn Raid (Video)
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — An elephant with an appetite for durian raided a storeroom Sunday in the west of Thailand, eating about 40 of the fruit and causing 70,000 baht in damage.
View ArticleDutch Tourist Rescued After Falling From Pai Canyon
PAI — A Dutch tourist was rescued Monday after falling from a canyon in Pai in the northern province of Mae Hong Son, an official said.
View ArticleFunky Building is Architecture, Not ‘Crooked’ and Collapsing: Officials
BANGKOK — Worries that a building being built downtown was at risk of collapsing were laid to rest Tuesday by local officials who explained it was just designed to look that way.
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