Students Send ‘Bag Man’ Into 7-Eleven For Earth Day
BANGKOK — High school students dressed their teacher in a plastic bag costume and sent him into 7-Elevens to call attention to plastic bag use in a video that went viral.
Bangkok Woman Rescued From Facebook Live Beating
BANGKOK — Her face battered black and blue, the young woman was forced to slap her own face and repeat how she had wronged the man threatening to kill her in slurred speech on camera.
Siege Over: Last Residents of Fort Community to Leave
BANGKOK — Decades of legal battles and standoffs, residents of a historic community at one of Bangkok’s two remaining premodern forts have raised the white flag, City Hall said Monday.
Prayuth Meets With World Intellectual Property Head
BANGKOK — Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha said Monday that his “transition” administration would try to tackle intellectual property violations.
Tickle That Vintage Fetish at Bangkok’s ‘The Camp’ (Photos)
BANGKOK — Vintage-hunters have reason to rejoice with the recent opening of The Camp Vintage Flea Market.
Thai Roadkill: No More Half Measures
Statistics be damned. Every New Year and Songkran were the last holiday for 300 to 400 people who die on the roads.
Weed Fans Head to Highland to Spark Hope For Legal Thai Bud
BANGKOK — Tribeswomen from the north on Saturday taught urbanites to weave fiber made from hemp, while other marijuana enthusiast crowded to learn how to make bamboo bongs.
Junta Won’t Use Article 44 to Reclaim Doi Suthep Land
BANGKOK — A controversy raging in the north over a swathe of protected mountain forest felled for judges’ homes won’t be solved by the junta leader’s use of absolute power, his deputy said Friday.
Distraught Woman Wants Justice For Boyfriend’s Prison Death
SAMUT PRAKAN — Earlier this week, Wanicha Ouyub visited her man doing time in prison. He was over halfway through a two-year sentence and in high spirits. Two days later, she was staring at his purple-bruised body on a table at Bang Bo Hospital.
Someone’s Building a Twitter Bot Army in Thailand
BANGKOK — In ones and twos they trickle in by the minute, new followers with Thai-sounding names in the familiar rhythm of social media. But then it gets weird.
