Cyclone Mocha will not directly hit Thailand after it makes landfall in Myanmar this Sunday, but it will bring rain from today through Monday, with isolated heavy downfalls in some…
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Cyclone Mocha will not directly hit Thailand after it makes landfall in Myanmar this Sunday, but it will bring rain from today through Monday, with isolated heavy downfalls in some…
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PR teams of top prime ministerial candidates have gone into overdrive to woo voters in the final week before Thailand votes in Sunday’s general election. Opinion survey results released last…
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The first completed ballot sheets, from advance and oversees voting on May 7th, left Thailand Post in Bangkok at 7pm Thursday evening for constituencies in 14 southern provinces. Although the…
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With only 3 days until the general election, Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat, and one of the favourites to be the next prime minister, is suddenly facing an uncertain…
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A parcel, containing a handbag which belonged to one of the 14 victims who died from suspected cyanide poisoning, has been sent to a close friend of the serial murder…
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Two former hunger strikers and seven other activists were arrested on Wednesday night after they allegedly went on a rampage through the Samran Rat police station, breaking a window, pouring…
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An estimated minimum of 120 billion baht will be spent on election-related activities, which is twice the amount previously estimated, according to the Business and Economic Forecast Centre of the…
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Major political parties are now making last-ditch efforts to win as many votes as possible with only days to go before the general election on Sunday. No matter what pollsters…
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The owner and the helmsman of the speed boat from which actress Nida Patcharaveerapong, aka “Tangmo”, fell to her death in the Chao Phraya River, were given suspended jail terms…
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The Criminal Court sentenced a man and a woman to 12,640 years in prison each on Wednesday, after finding them guilty of operating a Ponzi scheme. The sentences were based…
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Warnings that voters should not use pens provided in voting booths, because the ink they contain will “disappear” allowing ballots to be re-marked, was dismissed as fake news by Thailand’s…
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Police are now focusing their cyanide poisoning investigation on the financial transactions in the bank accounts of serial murder suspect Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, with the amount of money involved totalling about…
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Marigold flowers have been in great demand in the months leading up to the general election as politicians have been racing to meet people across the country in an attempt…
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The Department of Industrial Works is issuing tighter controls on cyanide after a suspected case of serial poisoning murders sparked concern that it is too easy to obtain the deadly…
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Move Forward Party “fever” is now spreading from online to on the ground, with its popularity clearly rising in the run-up to the May 14 election. Loud cheers and long applause erupt…
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After 17 years on the run and facing arrest on arrival in Thailand, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in his social media micro-blog that he has decided to ‘come…
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Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has ordered an election candidate of the United Thai Nation (UTN) party to stop the laser beam campaign imaging on the Rama VIII Bridge, following many…
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Indonesia and Singapore condemned an attack against a convoy including Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) officials delivering humanitarian aid in Myanmar and called for an end to violence in…
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Bangkok’s election battleground will likely be dominated by two pro-democracy parties on May 14 – the long-popular Pheu Thai and its formidable challenger Move Forward. Dr Stithorn Thananithichot, director of…
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Thailand’s consumption of electricity surged to a new record high of 34,826.50 megawatts at 9.41pm on Saturday May 6th, breaking the previous record of 33,177.30 megawatts, set at 2.30pm on…
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Thailand’s Industrial Works Department has promised to tighten regulations, making it compulsory for importers of cyanide to report to the authorities every sale of the lethal chemical, to prevent it…
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Over one million people have signed an online campaign, launched by the change.org website, demanding the ouster of Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) over a series of problems and errors allegedly…
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Thailand’s Revenue Department has no intention of imposing a departure tax on Thai nationals and permanent foreign residents travelling out of Thailand, as has been widely misunderstood. Revenue Department Deputy…
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The poor quality of Thai education has been a major national issue for decades. Many people in the education sector have attempted reform, by introducing a competency-based curriculum in the…
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Many voters have turned up at polling stations across the country to cast their ballots in advance voting today (Sunday). In Bangkok, voters showed up an hour or two before…
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Despite the rise of social media, campaign posters still seem to be the main channel of communication for political parties and candidates going all out to woo voters as election…
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People living in northern and north-eastern provinces are being advised to brace for summer storms from Monday through Wednesday, due to the onset of a moderate cold front from China….
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As advance voting is due to take place tomorrow (Sunday) across Thailand, the Election Commission has issued a warning to remind the public and election candidates about the prohibitions in…
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The Pheu Thai party is expected to win 139 House seats, with a 5% margin of error, in the May 14th general election, but no landslide, according to Super Poll….
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Actress Preechaya Pongthananikorn has offered a public apology for ordering cyanide online to poison snakes and monitor lizards in the backyard of her house, not knowing that it is illegal…
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Many people have shown up since Songkran to get COVID-19 vaccine booster doses, provided by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said today (Friday). At some vaccination…
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Police will summon an actress for questioning next Monday, after it was discovered that she had bought cyanide from the same lot as that obtained by a serial murder suspect….
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Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat emerged as the favourite candidate for Thailand’s next prime minister in the latest opinion poll, conducted by the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA)….
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Most of the major political parties campaigning for the general election on May 14 are focusing heavily on reaching out to voters through populist platforms, such as cash handouts, farm…
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The former husband of serial murder suspect Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn surrendered to police in Nakhon Pathom province today (Wednesday), to acknowledge charges of embezzlement, fraud and falsification of documents. Pol Gen…
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Thailand has decided to implement a new PM2.5 standard level, reduced from 50 microns (microgram/cubic metre) to 37.5 microns, and a new air quality index (AQI) standard, reduced from 91…
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Police have launched an investigation into what they suspect is Thailand’s first female serial killer. The number of her alleged victims rose over the past week as more people came forward to…
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Press freedom is under attack in every corner of the world, the United Nations chief said, denouncing the targeting of journalists and the spread of disinformation. Speaking ahead of World…
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The Thai cabinet approved the allocation of 10.464 billion baht from the Central Fund today (Tuesday), to subsidise electricity charges for 18.32 million households from May through August and for…
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COVID-19 infections in Thailand between 23rd and 29th of April increased to 1,811, or an average of 258 cases a day, and ten deaths, according to the Department of Disease…
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The world’s population is getting older. And Thailand is among the fastest-aging societies in the world. Of its 67 million population, more than 12 million Thais are elderly, according to…
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The Thailand Development Research Institute has criticised the Election Commission for its failure to check whether populist campaign policies, promised by political parties in their election manifestos, are worth the…
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May 31, 2023: Elon Musk has sounded the alarm over and over, but the tycoon is anything but a western media darling, so the wake-up call must come in the…
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Election ballots were dispatched, under tight police security, from Thailand Post Company’s head office in Bangkok today (Monday) to 400 electoral constituencies across the country, ahead of advance voting this…
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Pheu Thai party’s prime ministerial candidate, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, gave birth to her second child this morning (Monday), and said that she will return to the campaign trail as soon as…
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Security guard Nopporn Net-aram does not expect much on Labor Day, marked on May 1 every year. Nor does he have high hopes of the May 14 election. “I always…
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Fourteen people are believed to have been fatally poisoned by a female Thai suspect being held in custody, 36-year-old “Sararat”, but police are currently only investigating 11 of the cases,…
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The second group of 132 Thais being evacuated from Sudan, many of them students, arrived safety in Bangkok last night (Saturday) on a Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) flight, bringing…
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Pol Col Anek Taosuparb, deputy commander of the Crime Suppression Division, told the media Saturday night that murder charges were filed by the police against a Thai female suspect, 36-year-old…
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The Thai government will resubmit its proposal to the Election Commission (EC) for approval of the allocation of about 11 billion baht from the Central Fund, to be used from…
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More witnesses have come forward to report sudden deaths of their loved ones, believed to be from cyanide poisoning, after their encounters or contact with a female identified only as…
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Twelve of the first group of 78 Thais evacuated from Sudan, who arrived in Bangkok Thursday night, have been diagnosed with a respiratory disease, with one is suffering from stress…
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A complaint was lodged with the Office of the Ombudsman today (Friday) by Sonthiya Sawasdee, a political activist, asking the Constitutional Court to investigate Pheu Thai party’s campaign promise to…
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Traces of cyanide have been found in the car of the suspect in a series of cyanide poisonings and traces of an antidote were found in a parcel addressed to…
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Thai students, who arrived in Bangkok from Sudan via Saudi Arabia Thursday night, said that they took advantage of the 72-hour ceasefire in Khartoum to escape to the Port of…
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Although Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act has been in force since May 2020, people’s concern about the security of their sensitive online information has hit new heights following the recent…
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Crime Suppression Division officers have questioned the husband of a woman believed to be the 13th victim of cyanide poisoning, allegedly by “Sararat”, the sole suspect in a series of…
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Thirteen people are believed to be victims of cyanide poisoning, allegedly by “Sararat”. Two of them have survived the attempts on their lives, said Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittipraphat, the national…
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Police will file additional charges against Sararat, a suspect in the poisoning of a string of victims over the course of several years, after traces of cyanide were detected in…
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People living in Bangkok and the rest of the country, with the exception of the south, are advised to brace for thunder storms, strong winds, hail and possible lightning strikes…
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The first group of Thai evacuees from Sudan is expected to arrive in Bangkok on a Royal Thai Air Force flight at about 10pm tomorrow (Thursday) night, according to Air…
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Singapore on Wednesday executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despite pleas for clemency from his family and protests from activists that he was convicted on weak evidence….
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The Thai cabinet will seek approval from the Election Commission (EC) for the allocation of about 11.1 billion baht from the Central Fund for emergency use, under Section 169 (3)…
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Former U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday called for an end to violence in Myanmar after meeting the leader of its ruling military, which he said “must take the first…
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Seventy-nine people, mostly young children, have been infected with the highly infectious measles virus since the beginning of this year, but there have been no fatalities, according to the Disease…
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Six Phayre’s langurs were found dead and two illegal hunters were injured in a clash with forest rangers in the Kaeng Krachan National Park in Thailand’s Phetchaburi province on Monday….
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The Thai government started to evacuate 150 Thais from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum this morning, heading for the coastal town of Port Sudan where they will board a chartered…
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The US Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its carrier strike group arrived in Thailand Monday on a week-long visit after crossing the South China Sea. The US Embassy said…
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The Election Commission’s Office has come up with a method for sharing remaining party-list seats, after the distribution of 100 party-list seats based on the number of party-list votes received…
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Advance general election voting for Thais living overseas is scheduled to begin tomorrow (Tuesday) at Thai embassies and consular offices, Election Commission (EC) Secretary-General Sawaeng Boonmee said today. The advance…
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COVID-19 infections in Bangkok have doubled to about 700 cases a day since the Songkran festival, with the number of actual infections possibly surpassing 1,000 cases day, including those not…
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Will Pheu Thai’s controversial pledge to hand 10,000 baht to every Thai citizen aged 16 and over be the “killer policy” that secures a landslide victory in the May 14…
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Incumbent Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has expressed confidence that his United Thai Nation Party will win enough seats in the upcoming election for him to be nominated as the…
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The huge number of so-called populist promises being made in campaigning for Thailand’s election may have overwhelmed many voters. But political parties are hoping that at least some of these…
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The Royal Thai Police are to seek help from Interpol to find two Chinese men who allegedly kidnapped a female Chinese tourist and forced her to pay them a 500,000…
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One of the Pheu Thai party’s prime ministerial candidates, Srettha Thavisin, has reiterated that they will not partner with Palang Pracharath or United Thai Nation to form a coalition government…
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Leaders and other representatives of ten political parties joined a major debate, organized by Thai PBS at its convention hall on Friday evening. The event, which is a part of…
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The hot weather, currently affecting many parts of Thailand, is being caused by persistent low pressure cell, according to Somkuan Tonjan, head of the Central Weather Forecast Sub-division of the…
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The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) is blaming the increase in electricity bills for many households in Bangkok on the hot weather, requiring greater use of air-conditioners. Government Spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri…
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Sixty-three candidates for prime minister have been nominated by 43 political parties contesting in the May 14 general election. Thai PBS World offers a guide to the upcoming contest for Thailand’s…
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The Meteorological Department warned today that the heat indices in Bang Na district of Bangkok, Laem Chabang in Chon Buri province and Phuket tomorrow (Friday) will exceed 54oC, which dangerously…
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Bangkok police have assured the public that they will investigate the shooting death of a well-known Thai Internet idol and her boyfriend in a straightforward and fair manner, without outside…
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Thailand’s Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has warned organisers of the World Cannabis Day, taking place today (Thursday), not to consume cannabis in public venues or face legal action. The…
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The government has offered an assurance that the electricity charge for households for May through August will be 4.77 baht per unit, instead of the 5.24 baht for the January-April…
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A female dugong was found dead with its head missing on the beach in Nua Khlong district of Thailand’s southern province of Krabi yesterday (Wednesday). Villagers in Ko Siboya sub-district…
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Smoke pouring out of Changfeng Hospital in Beijing, as people tried to escape from a fire on Tuesday (April 18). The death toll rose to 29 on Wednesday (April 19)…
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Thailand is once again on the defensive against COVID-19 after laboratory tests showed that the new, more contagious subvariant XBB.1.16 has landed on these shores. Dr Supakit Sirilak, director-general of…
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Thailand’s pig farmers have proposed that a joint working committee, between the government and the private sector, be urgently established to deal with the widespread smuggling of pork into the…
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A herd of about 40 elephants, including several calves, were spotted yesterday (Tuesday) heading for a resort in Mueang district of Nakhon Nayok province from Khao Yai National Park to…
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Lin Hui, the last of the two giant panda, on loan to Chiang Mai Zoo from China since 2003, has died at the age of 21 after developing unusual symptoms…
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A couple is being held in police custody for allegedly opening six mule accounts, used by a call centre scam gang to temporarily park money cheated from victims. The couple,…
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People can now check their eligibility to cast their ballots in the General Election on May 14th or in advance on May 7th, via three channels. The first is to…
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Twenty-seven cases of Omicron XBB.1.16 sub-variant infection have been detected in Thailand, according to the latest information released on April 17th, but there is no evidence that the sub-variant is…
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8,575 drunk driving cases represented 96.69 percent of all motoring-related cases taken to court by the police during the seven days of Songkran celebrations, seeking to have the drivers be…
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Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has taken steps to cope with an anticipated upsurge in COVID-19 infections after the Songkran celebrations, as eight Omicron XBB.1.16 cases are found in the…
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A total of 236 people have died and 2,005 others have been injured in 2,008 road accidents during the six days of Songkran celebrations since April 11th. According to the…
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Myanmar‘s junta released 3,113 prisoners, including 98 foreigners, to mark the country’s traditional New Year on Monday, according to a statement from the military government published on pro-military Telegram channels….
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The Channel 9 TV transmitter tower, located on top of Doi Pui mountain in Mueang district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, narrowly avoided destruction by forest fires last…
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Four people sustained gunshot wounds in a shooting at a pub in Bangkok’s RCA nightlife district early this morning (Monday). All the injured, three men and one woman, were taken…
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A total of 71 constituency candidates in 31 provinces have been rejected by constituency election directors, after it was discovered that their qualifications do not meet the legal requirements, according…
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