A 42-year-old Canadian engineer stabbed a 59-year-old Thai lawyer 50 times after he caught him with his live-in Thai girlfriend. The Canadian had returned unexpectedly from an overseas business trip, and walked in on the illicit lovers in his Bangkok home. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com
A 12-year-old girl whose head got stuck between an escalator and the upper floor as the escalator was moving at Future Park Rangsit in Pathum Thani, north of Bangkok, two months ago has been pronounced dead at Bangkok Hospital. The mall’s marketing director Rattana Ananthanaphong said yesterday Wichitra Wasutpichaikul, mother the victim named Nuanprae Wasutpichaikul, […]
BANGKOK, Nov 11 – A powerful earthquake in Myanmar was felt in high-rise buildings in Bangkok, while there has been no damage reported in provinces located not far from the quake’s epicentre. The Associated Press said the strong earthquake struck northern Myanmar on Sunday, causing residents to flee their homes, but no injuries or major […]
A SYDNEY man has been arrested after Australian Federal Police advice in Bangkok and charged with sexually abusing a seven-year-old Thai boy. The 51-year-old was detained at Bangkok’s international airport on Thursday as he prepared to fly back home after two weeks in Thailand, Australian Federal Police said in a statement. Read more: heraldsun.com.au
BANGKOK, Nov 9 – Both Thais and foreigners lined up along the Chao Phraya River in the capital to view the annual royal barge procession, part of the royal Kathin ceremony to offer robes to monks. More than 2,000 rowers took part in the event and the ceremony was presided over by Crown Prince Maha […]
BANGKOK, 8 November 2012 (NNT) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has disclosed a plan to revamp areas around Victory Monument in order to improve infrastructure and ease traffic congestion. Bangkok Governor M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra yesterday presided over the launch of the effort, aimed at bringing order to congestion around the monument. The BMA’s plans […]
BANGKOK, Nov 8 – The anti-government Pitak Siam group will rally again Nov 24-25 aiming to draw as many as a million protesters to unseat the Yingluck Shinawatra government. If it fails, organisers say, they will call it quits. The leader of the new movement, Boonlert Kaewprasit, said today that the second mass rally is […]
BANGKOK, 8 November 2012 (NNT) – Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has let on it is considering suing FIFA over its decision to not use the Bangkok Futsal Arena to host the 2012 Futsal World Cup. Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra yesterday responded to the FIFA announcement, revealing the BMA is looking at ways to sue the […]
