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Wrecked Porsche at the scene on Ratchadapisek Road on August 8.

Porsche Drivers Narrowly Survive the “Hundred-Death Curve”

BANGKOK — Another car was sacrificed to the so-called “Hundred-Death Curve” on Thursday night, but luckily no one was hurt. Police reported that a Porsche...

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.

Lost American Students Rescued from Doi Suthep

CHIANG MAI — A dozen American exchange students were rescued late Wednesday night after they became lost in a national park. Rescue personnel located the...
Soldiers hold an evacuation drill June 30 near the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province. Photo: Sakchai Lalit / Associated Press

Cave Rescue Efforts Pick up Pace as Flooding Eases

MAE SAI — The effort to locate 12 boys and their football coach missing in a cave in Thailand for a week has picked up pace, with a break in the rain easing flooding in the system of caverns and more experts from around the world joining the mission.
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“This Is Thailand,” Remarked a Pai Van Crash That Injured 13 Danish Tourists

MAE HONG SON - A terrible crash occurred again between the Chiang Mai and Pai routes on Thursday night, injuring 13 Danish visitors and...

Epilepsy Blamed for Crash That Kills 2, Injures 15

PATTAYA — Two people were killed and 15 injured Monday morning after a black truck plowed through nearly a dozen motorbikes on Pattaya Tai Road.
In this photo taken and released by the Thailand Phuket Public Affairs Office, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018, the tour boat named the Pheonix is raised from the sea floor after sinking over four months ago in rough weather killing 47 tourists. Photo: Phuket Public Affairs Office via AP

Officials Recover Capsized Phuket Ship that Killed 47 Chinese

PHUKET — Officials on Saturday recovered a boat that sank in rough weather off the southern resort island of Phuket in July, killing 47 Chinese tourists.

Makeup Store Apologizes for Sale Fiasco

BANGKOK — A downtown makeup store apologized Sunday after it came under fire for false advertising and poor service from some of the hundreds of people who queued for hours over the weekend.
Tongkum is led off the truck that brought him from Chai Nat province Tuesday and into Bangkok’s Khan Na Yao Police Station.

Smiling Buffalo Seized by Police, Impounded as Evidence

CHAI NAT – An impoverished farmer in the central province of Chai Nat was in tears Tuesday morning when police arrived to confiscate the...
Rescued tourists from a boat that sank are helped onto a pier from a fishing boat Thursday on Phuket. Photo: Associated Press

Thailand Pledges Justice for Chinese Victims of Boat Tragedy

PHUKET — Thailand's government pledged Sunday to ensure justice for Chinese victims of a tour boat that sank in a storm off the southern resort island of Phuket, killing 42 people and leaving another 14 missing.

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