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Potential heavy rains in the next few days are forcing the rescue teams to consider extracting the 13 survivors out of Tham Luang cave sooner than they have earlier planned, chief of the rescue operation Narongsak Osotthanakorn said. Speaking at a press briefing at around midnight, Narongsak also admitted that oxygen supply within the chamber
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has offered a team of engineers to help in the rescue of the 12 footballers and their coach trapped in flooded Tham Luang cave. Elon Musk said that a group of engineers from his companies, SpaceX and The Boring Company, would leave for Thailand on Saturday, to see if they
Search for the missing passengers of the sunken Phoenix dive boat was called off Friday night as death toll has risen to 32, mostly Chinese tourists. Rear Admiral Charoenphol Koomrasee, deputy commander of the Third Fleet of the Royal Thai Navy, said Friday that poor weather condition and darkness made search impossible, but the
The Phuket Marine Office has issued an order prohibiting all boats from leaving the Ao Chalong bay to facilitate the search for 23 passengers still missing after two boat accidents on Thursday afternoon. According to the latest report of the search and rescue centre of the province, 33 passengers, most of the Chinese tourists, were
Outgoing Chiang Rai governor Narongsak Osotthanakorn, who has been playing a key role in the search and rescue mission to save the 12 young footballers and their coach trapped in Tham Luang cave since June 23, bid farewell today to his colleagues and residents of the province. His transfer to Pyayao province was formallyl announced
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has sent a letter to Pol Gen Somyot Poompanmoung, president of the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), inviting the 12 footballers of the Moo Pa Academy football team and their coach to attend the 2018 World Cup final in Moscow after they are brought out to safety from Tham Luang cave
The Navy will hold a meeting to consider seeking His Majesty the King’s approval of a special rank for Warrant Officer Saman Kunan, a retired SEAL member, who died performing an operation to rescue the 12 footballers and their coach stranded in Tham Luang cave, Navy spokesman Rear Admiral Chettha Jaipiam said on Friday (July
The death toll from the sinking of Phoenix dive boat carrying mainly Chinese tourists of the coast of Phuket yesterday has risen to 21 with another 37 passengers still missing, officials at the rescue command centre reported. It said rescue teams, employing helicopters, patrol and fishing boats are searching for the remaining missing tourists but
Three army officers on board a U-17 reconnaissance plane which crashed in Mae Hong Son province on Thursday afternoon (July 5) were killed while another was seriously injured, according to media reports. The four-set, single-engine plane took off from Mae Hong Son airport at 10.56 am on Thursday on a routine surveillance mission. It later
A retired member of the Navy SEAL unit died in Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district early Friday (July 6) while on a mission to rescue the 12 footballers and their coach stranded in the cave since June 23, Wassana Nanuam, a military beat reporter of the Bangkok Post newspaper, posted on
His Majesty the King has given an instruction for Warrant Officer Saman Kunan to be brought under the royal sponsorship after the retired Navy SEAL member died while performing a mission to rescue the 13 trapped in Tham Luang cave in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai. Rear Admiral Apakorn Yukongkaew, commander of the Navy
A bill to empower His Majesty the King to handpick members of the Sangha Supreme Council, the supreme governing body of Buddhist monks in Thailand, sailed through the National Legislative Assembly today. The NLA unanimously passed the bill to amend the Sangha Supreme Council Act in three straight readings by 217 votes with four abstentions.
Forty-nine people are still missing while 89 others were plucked from the rough sea off Phuket this afternoon after one dive boat and a yacht capsized. Phuket governor Norapat Plodthong said at about 9 pm search teams were still looking for the remaining 49 people from the two ill-fated vessels. It was reported that the
A search will continue today for 58 people, most of them tourists, who are still missing after three accidents in strong seas off Phuket involving two jet skis, a dive boat and a yacht on Thursday (July 5) afternoon, according a message posted on Facebook page “Phuket Public Relations” on Friday morning. In the message,
A search was immediately ordered after an army Cessna 182 light plane disappeared from the radar screen and believed to have crashed. The four-seat, single-engine light plane took off from Mae Hong Son airport at 10.56 am today on a routine surveillance mission and later disappeared from the radar screen as it was about
