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Crime, Courts, Calamity

Bad things happen to good people; good things happen to bad people.

Korat ‘Death Bus’ Driver Convicted, Gets 4 Years

NAKHON RATCHASIMA — A court Wednesday convicted and sentenced the driver of a tour bus that crashed and killed 18 people in Nakhon Ratchasima province earlier this year.

Gun, Noose, Suicide Lead Theories About Pattaya Morning Horror

PATTAYA — Police say a Norwegian man found hanged from atop a highrise in Pattaya city center this morning most likely committed suicide.

Norwegian Found Hanged in Full View in Pattaya

PATTAYA — Residents of Pattaya city were shocked to find a man hanging from the side of a tall building Wednesday morning.
‘Emergency room services 24 hours a day,’ reads the sign outside the Praram 2 Hospital. Photo: Praram 2 Hospital / Facebook

Hospital Accused of Turning Dying Woman Away Faces Criminal Prosecution

BANGKOK — Praram 2 Hospital admins face criminal prosecution over substandard services after it was accused of refusing to treat a patient whose daughter said her face was melting from acid poured on her head.
Photo: Matichon

Rules Eyed After Child Dies Boxing

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...

Husband Says ‘Love’ Motivated Him to Murder Wife WIth Acid

BANGKOK — When police escorted a man accused of killing his wife by splashing and forcing her to drink acid to the local court,...
Chorladda Tarawan’s family mourns Tuesday in Khon Kaen, where her body has been taken for funerary rites.

Hospital Says Acid-Burn Victim Only Scalded With Hot Water

BANGKOK — The hospital that allegedly refused to treat a woman fatally burned in an acid attack now says she asked to leave the...
A truck drives through a flooded street Saturday in Bang Saphan district, Prachuap Khiri Khan province.

Massive Weekend Flooding Kills Toddler, Woman in Prachuap

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN — Streets turned into fast-moving rivers as flash floods triggered by the heaviest rainfall in decades struck the southern coastal province of Prachuap Khiri Khan, killing two and affecting thousands.
An attorney representing the family of the deceased, Atchariya Reungrattanapong, points at Peera Kananuwat, an executive with Rama II Hospital.

Hospital That Refused Acid-Burned Woman Denies it Was Emergency

BANGKOK — The husband accused of fatally attacking his wife with acid has been arrested, while the hospital under fire for refusing to treat...

Woman Dies After Hospital Refuses to Treat Acid Attack by Husband

BANGKOK — A justice advocacy group on Sunday morning placed the lifeless body of a woman in front of the hospital that refused her...

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