Calamity

BANGKOK — A Turkish man fell to his death from the balcony of a hotel near Lumphini Park in the early hours of Tuesday morning in what police believe was an accident.

BANGKOK — Fourteen more people died on average during each day of the holidays over last year, with drunk and speeding drivers blamed for the highest year-end death toll in 10 years.

BANGKOK — A French expat who made a viral music video mocking junta leader Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha was visited on Thursday by two police officers and “made to apologise.”

PATTAYA — A foreign man fell to his death while skydiving Thursday afternoon, police said.

BANGKOK — A leaked letter from a military cadet who died a questionable death indicates that the physical demand at the school made at least another student quit.

NAN — A household of seven died when a landslide demolished a row of houses Saturday morning in northern Thailand. A mass of mud engulfed...

PHUKET — A senior official on Phuket said Monday the loss of the island’s regular lifeguards was not to blame for the drowning of a Russian tourist at Karon Beach, where seven others had to be rescued from the raging seas.

MAE SAI — The frantic effort to locate 12 boys and their football coach missing in a cave in Thailand for over a week picked up pace as a break in the rain eased flooding in the system of caverns and more experts from around the world joined the anxious rescue mission.

SAMUI — Sixteen tourists from China were injured Sunday night when their bus overturned on the popular island of Samui, police said.

BANGKOK — While police still try to identify five charred bodies from a horrific wreck Monday afternoon in Chonburi province, shock, sorrow and outrage came from the friends and families of the dozens killed.