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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.

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‘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.

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Tourist 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.

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5 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...

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Truckload 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.

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Thai 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.

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Foreigners 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.

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Storm 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...

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Man Teases Captive Black Bear, Gets Mauled

PHETCHABUN — A man was severely injured by a bear kept captive at a monastery on Wednesday.

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Korean Man Falls to Death at Pattaya Condo

PATTAYA — A Korean man was found dead in front of a condominium early Thursday morning.

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30 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...

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Chula 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...

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Weather 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...

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30 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...

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Chula 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.

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Outing 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.

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Chula 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.

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Elephant 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.

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Dutch 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.

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Funky 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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