Calamity

BANGKOK — Parts of northern Bangkok were left flooded for several hours because city staff couldn’t find the key to a waterpump, Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said Tuesday.

KOH SAMET — Twenty-eight people were injured early Sunday morning after the speedboat they were in crashed into a container ship off Koh Samet. The...

PHUKET – A tourist from New Zealand plunged to his death from a hotel room in Phuket’s Patong area early Thursday morning, police said.

BANGKOK — The tourism and sports minister said Tuesday that the ministry would consider proposing stronger restrictions on minor boxing after a 13-year-old boy...

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — The body of an elephant found in a pineapple field is the latest in a series of pachyderms killed after they wandered across national park boundaries to forage on farmland, an environmentalist said Thursday.

PATTAYA — An Indonesian tourist ran into a Pattaya street and put himself in harm’s way Tuesday, reportedly after being given pizza instead of a Happy Meal by his mother.

BANGKOK — A woman was being treated for burns after a fire broke out Friday afternoon near the Russian Embassy in Bangkok. Col. Nakorn Thongpanich...

BANGKOK — Behind the wheel of a turbo Toyota van called the “flying pig” for speeds considered fast even by first responders, Isadar Sinthu-aree settles in for a long night’s patrol of lower Bangkok.

PATTAYA — Officials said they would refill a large pothole Tuesday after a concerned farang pointed out it remained a road hazard.

BANGKOK — A taxi driver with a record for having threatened passengers with a knife faces faces charges Wednesday after she was filmed raving at a family in her taxi before kicking them to the curb.