International news with relevance to Thai and regional readers
More than 400 people trapped by a strong earthquake in the foothills of the Himalayas have been rescued, Chinese officials said, while over 30,000 residents have been relocated, as the search for survivors entered a second day on Wednesday.
The police inspector-general, Pol Gen Tatchai Pitaneelaboot, announced in Mae Sot district, Tak province, today that he had received confirmation that the missing Chinese actor, Xingxing, had been located.
A Chinese movie star is believed to have gone missing, after he arrived in Thailand and travelled to a northern province, near the Myanmar border, for a casting appointment last Friday.
Police in Mae Sot district of Tak province have questioned a Thai man who drove the now missing Chinese actor, known as “Xingxing”, from Mae Sot to the Myanmar border. Unconfirmed reports say, however, that the actor has been located and is about to be brought back into Thailand.
Another Chinese actor has claimed that he almost fell prey to a scam, using the same trick employed against “Xingxing”, who has been missing since January 3rd and is currently the subject of a Thai police investigation.
A winter storm brought snow, ice and freezing temperatures to a broad swath of the U.S. on Sunday, with some 60 million people across more than a dozen states from Kansas to New Jersey under winter weather warnings and advisories.
South Korean investigators sought to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence Friday over a failed martial law bid, but local media reported security forces were blocking their attempts.
Los Angeles, United States - At least one person was killed and seven wounded when a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside a hotel belonging to US President-elect Donald Trump in Las Vegas, police said Wednesday.
A US army veteran with an Islamic State flag and "hellbent" on carnage steered a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year revelers in New Orleans on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
Jimmy Carter, the 100-year-old former US president and Nobel peace laureate who rose from humble beginnings in rural Georgia to lead the nation from 1977 to 1981, has died, his nonprofit foundation said Sunday.
Flags flew at half-mast on Monday as South Korea mourned 179 people killed in the worst plane crash on its soil, as investigators probe why the Jeju Air plane crash-landed and burst into flames.
The Thai Embassy in Seoul has lowered its flag to half-mast for seven days as a mark of respect to the victims and their families of Sunday’s tragic plane crash that killed 179 people, including two Thai nationals.
