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Driver Fined For Calling Passengers ‘Whores,’ Threatening to Rape Them
BANGKOK — A taxi driver recorded calling young female passengers “whores" and threatening to kill them was fined Tuesday and ordered to undergo three hours of etiquette training.
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Lopburi Driver Speeds Bus Into Truck, Dies
LOPBURI — A bus and truck collided with each other Wednesday evening, injuring 20 and killing the bus driver.
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Tunnel Collapses in Chiang Mai, Two Geologists Die
CHIANG MAI — Two geologists were killed and a third narrowly escaped death Thursday morning in Chiang Mai when the roof of a large drainage tunnel collapsed.
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Search Continues for Russian Woman Missing on Koh Tao
KOH TAO — The search for a Russian woman not seen for over two weeks on a southern island entered a fourth day on Monday.
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Indian Air Ambulance Plane Crashes Near Bangkok, Pilot Dies
NEW DELHI — India's external affairs minister says an Indian hospital air ambulance plane with five people on board caught fire and crash landed near Bangkok. The pilot was killed.
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Scavenger Killed by RPG Salvaged From Weapons Range
NAKHON RATCHASIMA — An army spokesman on Wednesday urged people to stop foraging for scrap metal on land reserved for live-fire weapons drills following the death of a scavenger in the northeast...
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Students, Teachers Die in Field Trip Bus Plunge
PRACHINBURI — Two high school students and four of their teachers were killed when a double-decker bus taking them on a field trip plunged from a mountain road early Thursday morning.
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Schoolgirl Disfigured by Mug-Throwing Teacher Smiles Again
BANGKOK — A schoolgirl facially disfigured by a mug thrown at her face by a teacher said she is making good on her pledge to “get her smile back” Thursday.
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Bone, Flesh Found off Koh Tao in Search for Russian Woman
KOH TAO — Bone fragments, flesh and a diving mask were found Thursday off Koh Tao’s Chalok Ban Kao Beach, nearly a week after the search began for a missing Russian tourist.
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Remains Found Off Koh Tao Not of Missing Russian
KOH TAO — Biological material which presented the first possible break in the case of a Russian tourist who disappeared on Koh Tao turned out not to be human, police said Monday.
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Bangkok City Hall Fire Blamed on Short Circuit
BANGKOK — Investigator on Tuesday believe a short circuit caused a fire that broke out in City Hall’s Information Technology center on Monday, destroying some documents and equipment.
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Police Chase Naked Foreign Woman 1K Near Khaosan Road
BANGKOK — A foreign woman led police on an extended chase Tuesday afternoon in Bangkok after they spotted her walking naked across the Phra Pinklao Bridge.
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Pedestrian Killed by Bangkok Hotel Tuk-Tuk
BANGKOK — A pedestrian was killed and two were injured after they were hit by a hotel tuk-tuk Tuesday morning in what police are chalking up to an accident.
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French Woman Cites Heat for Naked Stroll Near Khaosan Road
BANGKOK — Police said Wednesday they believe a French woman who ran naked through the streets near Khaosan Road was mentally ill and complained it was too hot.
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Devastating Forest Fire Blamed on Hunters, Foragers
LAMPANG — A fire that scorched hundreds of rai (dozens of hectares) of forest and brush Thursday morning in the northern province of Lampang was likely caused by carelessness, a local forest official...
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Close Call! Man Escapes Toilet Cobra Ambush Unscathed
NONG KHAI — A Nong Khai man’s nethers narrowly escaped a close encounter with a cobra Wednesday night in his bathroom in northeastern Thailand.
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Tech Shop Burns at Fortune Town
BANGKOK — A fire broke out on the third floor of the Fortune Town shopping mall Monday morning on Ratchadapisek Road. No one was reported injured on the fire, which broke out at about 8am in an...
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Waterworks Authority Says Corruption Case Files Untouched by Fire
BANGKOK — The Provincial Waterworks Authority said Tuesday that no documents pertaining to a recently launched investigation into corruption within the organization were destroyed in a fire Monday night.
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Forest Ranger Sacked For Poaching in His Own Forest
BANGKOK — A forestry official was sacked from his job Monday after the director-general of the Forestry Department saw his posts bragging about jungle cats, mongooses and other wild animals he has...
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Big Baht Bounty for Bangkok’s ‘Belgian Bridge’ Burner: Police
BANGKOK — Been stuck in traffic on Rama IV Road and need someone to blame? Police say this is your guy.
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