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BANGKOK — On Wednesday, professor Pitak Sirawong made a deal with his students. He told them they could bring their trendy haunted spirit dolls into his research project classroom on one condition: The Luk Thep, believed to contain the spirit of a child, must do the same work as the students.

BANGKOK — An American television detective is really an angel watching over the toils and troubles of a grim 1987 Berlin, where a trapeze artist seeks love and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds growl through sets.

BANGKOK — A young boy was injured Tuesday night on a passenger bus after its driver said the brakes failed, forcing him to deliberately crash it into a utility pole.

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Panarat Thepgumpanat
Reuters

BANGKOK — A general election will be held in 2017 even if the draft constitution does not pass a referendum this year, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha said today.

BANGKOK — A woman who went viral on the internet last week for her abusive behavior over a parking ticket was back with more today.

CHIANG RAI — Netizens’ hope to see a white winter melted away today.

BANGKOK — The recent cold snap and turbulent weather are being blamed for the deaths of six deaths in the north and sinking ships in the south.

BANGKOK — The Bukruk Urban Arts Festival opened with a daylong music festival Saturday at The Jam Factory in Bangkok.

By Pravit Rojanaphruk
Senior Staff Writer

BANGKOK — Earlier this month, veteran labor leader Wilaiwan Sae-tia traveled to Bangkok to lend her support to auto parts factory workers from Rayong province. It was routine for the 60-year-old chairwoman of what is arguably the kingdom’s most influential labor group; the kind of thing she’s done many times in four decades with the movement.

AYUTTHAYA — Over 1 billion baht would be spent to build a 200-kilometer bike lane through central Thailand with a lot of rubber mixed in to benefit struggling rubber plantations.