Calamity

SAMUT PRAKAN — A Thai Airways flight to New Delhi had to return to Suvarnabhumi Airport 30 minutes after takeoff Wednesday night due to a mechanical problem.

BANGKOK — The director of one of Bangkok’s central districts died Thursday morning after fainting during a soccer game he organized for the military regime’s Workout Wednesdays fitness policy.

CHIANG RAI — Rescue divers on Monday were making progress through a key passageway inside the flooded mountain cave in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their football coach have been missing for more than a week.

BANGKOK — The unusual combination of the top winning lottery ticket number has the entire kingdom in a hubbub Tuesday.

BANGKOK — BTS On Nut resumed service after it was briefly shut down by a raging fire Wednesday morning.

An international rescue team has located all missing youths and their coach in the cave where they went missing nine days ago.

KRABI — That feeling when you get so big, one duck isn’t enough.

TRAT — A German man and a British woman drowned over the weekend in rough seas off of Koh Chang.

BANGKOK — Chinese New Year festivities began Thursday with wan wai, a day of worship which involves family members burning glittering “hell money” for their ancestors. But with Bangkok plagued by heavy smog, health officials warn the tradition may hasten their reunion with the dead.

CHANTHABURI — The wreckage of a missing Air Force helicopter was found Tuesday morning, three days after it went missing. All three crew members were dead.