A student at the Pathumwan Institute of Technology was seriously injured in a knife attack in front of the college on Friday night. According to eyewitness accounts given to the…
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A student at the Pathumwan Institute of Technology was seriously injured in a knife attack in front of the college on Friday night. According to eyewitness accounts given to the…
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Well-known serial petitioner Srisuwan Janya has been taken into police custody on an extortion charge, after he and two associates allegedly demanded 1.5 million baht from the director-general of the…
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Tokyo, Japan – A Japanese man sentenced to death for an arson attack that killed 36 people at an anime studio appealed the ruling on Friday, a court said. Shinji Aoba,…
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The National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department will initiate legal action against two Thais, a Sri Lankan and a Ukrainian for being in possession of and moving a lion…
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Two male French nationals, who used to teach English at a foundation in Chiang Mai, have been accused of producing and selling fake French ID cards to illegal immigrants in…
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The Thai cabinet scrapped an old school practice today, which had been imposed since 1999. It requires at least one teacher to take turns to be posted at their schools…
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Parents of five boys, allegedly involved in the murder of a 47-year-old mentally-troubled woman in Aranyaprathet district of Sa Kaeo province on January 11th, were escorted by district police to…
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Additional charges of rape and assault are to be filed against two of the five boys currently being held at two remand homes, in Sa Kaeo and Chanthaburi provinces, on…
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Thai police will be contacting the Indian Embassy in Bangkok to seek assistance in locating an Indian national, suspected of involvement in the murder and dismemberment of a Myanmar man,…
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A 38-year-old man, accused of attacking a female teacher at a school in Chiang Rai province on Saturday, has told the police that he acted in self-defence, claiming that the…
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Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission (NRHC) will ask the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) and the Committee on the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance to investigate the…
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The parents and guardians of five boys, aged 13-16, who are accused of fatally assaulting a mentally-challenged woman on January 10th in Aranyaprathet district of Sa Kaeo province, were asked…
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The Appeals Court changed the prison term imposed on a non-commissioned police officer today from just one year and 15 days to ten years and two months for crashing his…
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Former Agriculture Minister Chalermchai Sri-on categorically denied today that he had anything to do with the illegal importation of frozen pork, in which his personal secretary has been implicated. Somkiat…
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Five boys, aged from 13 to 16, have been taken into police custody in Aranyaprathet district of Sakaeo province for allegedly killing a 47-year-old mentally disabled woman. The victim, identified…
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Officers from the Technology Crime Suppression Division raided an illegal online gambling website installation and arrested 12 administrators at a poolside villa in downtown Chiang Mai on Saturday. The police…
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Fifteen children sustained minor injuries when a sling holding an emergency bridge snapped, sending it and its occupants crashing onto the ground, during a Children’s Day exhibition in Khuan Don…
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One foreigner was killed and another was seriously injured when their two-seater single-prop plane crashed into an open field in Chon Buri province Saturday morning. Emergency services at the crash…
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Three security guards were killed and one injured at a power station in the Damnoen Saduak district of Ratchaburi province on Friday night, allegedly over a pay dispute. The chief…
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Thai cyber police have seized assets worth more 1.2 billion baht from a major online scamming gang and have arrested three suspects, including the alleged ring leader, during raids on…
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Thai anti-narcotics officers have taken a Malaysian, alleged to be a major drug trafficker with connections in Thailand, Laos, China, Myanmar and Malaysia, into custody. The suspect, Ong Gim Wah,…
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Two former labour ministers, who served between 2020 and 2023, and two senior labour officials have been implicated by the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) and the Office of the…
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Two border patrol police officers were shot and seriously injured when gunmen, believed to be insurgents, opened fire as they stopped to buy provisions from a grocery in the Banang…
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Sakhon Nakhon police have detained a 35-year-old man on suspicion that he locked his father and sister into separate steel cabinets, pushed them into a pond and watched them drown….
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One student was injured in a clash between rivals from two technology institutes on the Pathumwan skywalk in Bangkok’s Pathumwan district Monday evening. Pathumwan police said that about 40 rival…
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While so-called “Johrei” purification practices have existed in Thailand for more than five decades now, the public knew little about the cult until the bodies of a mother and her…
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A pedestrian overpass collapsed, blocking the outbound lanes of the Asian Highway in Ang Thong province this morning, after it was hit by an articulated truck. The accident occurred at…
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A woman has been taken into police custody for questioning today after the body of a two-year-old baby boy was found in a refrigerator in a house in Nonthaburi province….
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51 more people died and 416 others were injured in 424 road accidents across the country on the third of the “Seven Dangerous Days” of the New Year holiday period,…
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31 people died and 404 others were injured in 385 road accidents yesterday, bringing the death toll for the first two of the “Seven Dangerous Days” to 71, with 739…
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A police officer was arrested today, at a rented apartment in Nakhon Pathom province, after he allegedly shot and killed a businessman on the Chalong Rat expressway in Bangkok’s Wang…
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Thirty-four people died and 335 others were injured in road accidents across the country on the first of the New Year travel “Seven Dangerous Days” yesterday, according to the Command…
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Many believed that things would drastically change after the Criminal Court ruling on December 20, but even they had not expected that it would be such a spectacular free fall…
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The woman nicknamed “Am Cyanide” by Thai media made headlines in 2023 as Thailand’s first suspected female serial killer after police uncovered evidence that more than a dozen of her…
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Public prosecutors have decided to return the case file of the 14-year-old suspect in the Siam Paragon shooting on October 3rd to the police, on the grounds that the police…
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Public prosecutors have decided to return the case file of the 14-year-old suspect in the Siam Paragon shooting on October 3o to the police, on the grounds that the police…
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Thailand enters the annual “seven dangerous days” today (Dec 28) with sirens already sounding over efforts to meet its 2027 goal of cutting the appalling death toll from traffic accidents….
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The world of Chinese chess is in uproar over rumours of cheating and a bad behaviour scandal that saw the national champion stripped of his title Monday after a victory…
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The Phatthalung Provincial Court sentenced Chavalit Thongduang, aka Pang Nanode, and four other co-defendants to life in prison yesterday after being found guilty of assaulting and attempting to murder a…
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One construction worker was fatally injured when a steel sheet fell and struck him on the head at the construction site of the Purple Line’s Wongwian Yai station in Bangkok…
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london – Police in London said Saturday officers had arrested a man on suspicion of theft and criminal damage after a Banksy artwork was removed from a south London street corner within hours of appearing. The…
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The Thai Embassy in London has warned Thais living in the United Kingdom about the scam calls, stating that it has no policy to call and ask for personal information….
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Two retired naval officers were arrested in Bangkok this morning by Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police on murder charges, in connection with the death of a Taiwanese national. Another Taiwanese…
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Police have found listening devices concealed in the conference rooms of one of state-owned broadcasters, the Mass Communication Organisation of Thailand (MCOT), during a sweep of its headquarters today. The…
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The three orangutans, smuggled from Indonesia into Thailand years ago, were sent home today. They are the last group of orangutans that came under the care of the National Parks,…
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Savitree Wongsricha’s deep sorrow and great anger were the most glaring in four shabby pieces of paper few people have seen or remembered. In them, she pledged that anyone responsible…
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A criminal court in Mukdahan province sentenced Chaiyaphol Wipa to 20 years in prison today, on two charges relating to the death of a three-year-old child who went missing in…
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Police have meticulously checked a pickup truck, used by the prime suspect in the fatal shooting of a school teacher and a vocational student in the Khlong Toei area last…
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A prime suspect in the fatal shooting of a vocational student and a school teacher in Bangkok’s Khlong Toei area on November 11th was arrested this morning in Chiang Mai…
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Former Democrat MP for Nakhon Nayok Charnchai Isarasenarak and activist lawyer, Nititorn Lamlua, plan to submit a petition this afternoon to the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders…
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The trend of fatal shooting sprees in Thailand continued in 2023, with the country’s top luxury shopping mall becoming the latest killing field. Adding to the shock was the young…
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Another 12-month journey around the sun and another trail of ironies and unpredictability. This year is ending with the planet earth telling humans again that nothing is certain, that no…
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Senator Upakit Pachariyangkun was formally indicted today on narcotics trafficking, money laundering and association with a transnational criminal organisation charges. The senator has denied all the charges and applied for…
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Former Democrat deputy leader Prinn Panitchpakdi was acquitted of sexually assault charges today by the Criminal Court. Prinn was charged with abducting an underage girl for sexual purposes in a…
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Former Olympic boxing gold medallist Somrak Khamsing reported to police in the north-eastern province of Khon Kaen late Wednesday night, to acknowledge four charges, including attempted rape, related to a…
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Children and youth representatives from across Thailand recently gathered in Bangkok to mark the national launch of General Comment No. 26 (GC26), an important international document focusing on children’s rights…
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The Criminal Court has granted bail to Move Forward MP for Bangkok, Rukchanok Srinork, after she was sentenced to six years in prison, without suspension, on a lèse majesté conviction…
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The Health Service Support Department will propose tomorrow, that Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew file charges against a private hospital for refusing emergency treatment to a seriously injured Taiwanese tourist,…
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Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry has instructed its representative in Bangkok to investigate a car accident, in which an injured Taiwanese tourist was allegedly denied medical treatment by a hospital and died…
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Seven Pathum Thani provincial police officers have been transferred to inactive posts at the provincial police command, pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations that they raped a drug…
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Myanmar became the world’s biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government’s crackdown on the trade, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday. Myanmar…
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Former Olympic boxing gold medallist Somrak Kamsing has denied charges of sexual assault, filed against him by a 17-year-old girl in the north-eastern province of Khon Kaen. The allegations were…
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Police in Chon Buri province have re-apprehended a convict who, with the help of his wife, had escaped from his guarded hospital bed. The 37-year-old prisoner, serving time for theft,…
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Officials from the Department of Special Investigation have discovered a cold storage company in Nakhon Pathom province has, in the past two years, transferred about 220 million baht to two…
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When the ill-fated coach skidded off a road and crashed into a tree in Prachuab Khiri Khan province over the weekend, it claimed 14 victims on the scene, while two…
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Ein Gedi, Israel – Message after message, the brief WhatsApps tell a poignant and chilling story of encroaching terror with people making increasingly desperate pleas for help, some of them with only…
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Anti-narcotics officials and marine police seized about two tonnes of crystal methamphetamine from a tug, moored the wharf of a steel factory in Bang Pakong district of Thailand’s eastern province…
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Washington – The United States on Monday charged a former ambassador to Bolivia with spying for Cuba for over 40 years, in what the Justice Department described as one of…
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A Revenue Department official, attached to Bang Sao Thong district in Samut Prakan province, and three associates have been ruled by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to be “unusually rich”…
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Pattaya police issued a statement today in an attempt to clarify a German media report, claiming that a German tourist, who was arrested for buying sexual services from an underage…
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Paris, France – A person known to the French authorities as a radical Islamist with mental health troubles stabbed a German tourist to death and wounded two people in central Paris on Saturday…
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Thai and Lao police seized 14.8 million methamphetamine pills in Laotian capital of Vientiane between November 28 and 30, in joint operations between the police forces. Four Laotians and one…
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Move Forward MP for Bangkok Rukchanok Srinork will ask the Criminal Court to postpone the reading of the verdict, scheduled for December 13, in a case in which she is…
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Bangkok police have asked the public to report any sightings or information on the whereabouts of three suspects wanted in connection with the fatal shootings of a school teacher and…
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Nine people were killed and more than ten others were injured when a pickup truck rammed into a large group of people attending a Kathin celebration in Phrai Bueng district…
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The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has impounded 29 plots of land, worth about Bt282 million, owned by Senator Upakit Pachariyangkun, on suspicion that the assets might have…
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The government has praised a teacher for his bravery during a fight with a knife-wielding man who broke into his school in Chaiyaphum’s Khon San district on Wednesday. Thawatchai Duangthum…
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A teacher was injured in an attack by a knife-wielding man who broke into a school in Khon San district of Thailand’s north-eastern province of Chaiyaphum, while the children and…
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Six Chinese nationals, who were found begging in Bangkok and are now in police custody, entered Thailand legally, taking advantage of visa-free entry for Chinese tourists. The beggars, some of…
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Eight people, suspected of involvement in the killing of a female school teacher and a vocational student on Sunthorn Kosa Road in Bangkok’s Khlong Toei area on November 11th, have…
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The Criminal Court found retired Pol Gen Sereepisuth Temeeyaves, ex-leader of Thai Liberal Party, guilty on Tuesday of defaming through advertising, Palang Pracharath party deputy leader Paiboon Nititawan. The court…
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Social Development and Human Security Minister Varawut Silpa-archa has ordered an urgent investigation into the presence of numerous Chinese beggars in Bangkok, to uncover whether international human trafficking is involved….
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Police have found many fake US$100 banknotes, blank notes and currency counterfeiting equipment in two safes in the hotel room of a Taiwanese man who was found murdered last Thursday….
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Social Development and Human Security Minister Varawut Silpa-archa has denied that he knows escaped convict Chaovalit Thongduang, aka “Paeng Nanode”, after they were captured together in a group photo with…
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Bangkok police have launched a manhunt for three men, riding two motorcycles, who shot and killed a 16-year-old vocational student on Ranong 2 Road in the Dusit district of Bangkok…
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The 19-year-old vocational student, who was injured in a much-publicised shooting on Sunthorn Kosa Road earlier this month, has died in hospital, his mother said on Monday. She said her…
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New York, United States – Singer Cassie and rap mogul Sean Combs have reached a settlement “amicably” a day after she filed a lawsuit accusing him of rape and physical abuse, her lawyer…
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Police are to seek a warrant for the arrest of a Thai woman suspected of involvement in the murder of a Taiwanese man at a hotel in Bangkok’s Phra Khanong…
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Police have arrested a Myanmar man and a Cameroonian on suspicion that they were involved in the murder of a Taiwanese man, whose body was found in a hotel room…
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Imprisoned political activist Arnon Nampa has asked his lawyer to withdraw his bail applications in the over 20 cases still pending against him, after the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, rejected…
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The Supreme Court has ordered the Army to pay two million baht in compensation to the family of an ethnic Lahu human rights activist, who was shot dead by troops…
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Two men have been arrested in Phuket for allegedly using sling shots to fire ball bearings at the windshields of busesparked at various spots on the resort island. Phuket police…
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After more than two months of investigation into the high-profile killing of a highway police officer in Nakhon Pathom province last September, allegedly by or at the order of a…
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The Criminal Court decided today to release former celebrity Suteewan Taweesin on five-million baht bail, but ordered her to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and seized her passport. Suteewan, her…
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The concept of having Chinese police patrol with Thai counterparts in Thailand has met with a mixed reaction with those in Pattaya expressing support. Rumpueng ‘Lisa’ Hamilton, president of the…
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Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin says he has never talked about inviting Chinese police to come to Thailand to join their Thai counterparts on patrols in tourist destinations, to boost the…
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The police investigation into an incident in which a truck fell into a hole on a Bangkok road last week found nothing to indicate that bribery of police was involved,…
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Interior Ministry will hold discussions with Education Ministry about the possibility of reintroducing civics classes to the school curricula, to instil an awareness of unity, duty, ethics and brotherhood among…
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Teachers, students and parents from the Sacred Heart Convention School laid flowers today at the place, near the school, where one of their teachers, Sirada Sinprasert, was killed by a…
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The mother of the female teacher shot and killed yesterday, near her school in Bangkok’s Khlong Toei area, is urging the police to arrest the gunman as quickly as possible….
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