'District of Love' ready for same-sex marriage registration tomorrow
More than 60 same-sex couples have booked online to register their marriages at the Bang Rak District Office in Bangkok tomorrow, according to District Director Pornpan Wattanasin.
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More than 60 same-sex couples have booked online to register their marriages at the Bang Rak District Office in Bangkok tomorrow, according to District Director Pornpan Wattanasin.
Bangkok remains stifled by health-threatening PM2.5 airborne pollution, but the situation is marginally better than yesterday, when 44 out of the capital’s 50 districts suffered with PM2.5 exceeding 100 microns (µg/m³).
Police are investigating the cases of two foreign tourists, who died after attending a music festival on Phuket Island during the weekend.
Five people were slightly injured by a running elephant, which was frightened by the sound of fireworks at a local fair in the Muang district of Nong Bua Lamphu province last night.
A group of people staged a re-enactment of the drowning of Thai actress Nida Patcharaveerapong, known to her fans as ‘Tangmo‘, today. She lost her life after falling into the Chao Phraya River in Nonthaburi from a speed boat on February 24, 2022. The re-enactment is an attempt to prove that her death was not accidental, but pre-mediated murder.
A 10-year-old Thai girl was rescued from Myanmar and brought safely back home to Mae Sot district in Tak province yesterday, after she went missing from home with her nannie last Friday.
33 Chinese tourists, two Thai guides and three crew members have been rescued after their catamaran began to take on water and sink in the seas off Phuket today.
Firefighters are trying to control wildfires in Khao Kho National Park in Phetchabun province today. So far, about 1.6 hectares of forest have been destroyed and the fires are still raging.
A former Thai marine, wanted by Thai police for the alleged assassination of former Cambodian opposition MP Lim Kimya in Bangkok last Thursday night, was flown back to Thailand today from Cambodia.
Villagers living in Nua Khlong district of Krabi province have called on officials to deal with long-tailed macaques, which have left their habitat in the mangrove forest to forage for food in their communities and along the beaches.
The cabinet approved a ministerial regulation today, prohibiting students from using electronic cigarettes, hookahs or psychotropic substances.
Meteorological Department expects most of Thailand will remain cool in the morning this weekend due to cold weather system from China.