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A Chinese woman abducted by five people after arriving at Suvarnabhumi airport from Hong Kong and held for 10 million baht ransom was found safe on a roadside in Bang Na, Bangkok, 14 days later. Pol Maj Gen Surachate Hakparn, deputy commissioner of the Tourist Police Bureau, said on Monday that
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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Monday gave about 100 street vendors another 14 days to continue selling their wares in front of Central Lat Phrao and The One malls, after which they must remove their stalls so pedestrians can use the footpaths unimpeded. In response to complaints about the stalls
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SAMUT PRAKAN: A tour bus driver has been charged with stealing valuables and other items worth 60,000 baht in total from five Chinese passengers whose travel bags were forced open while they visited tourist attractions. Wasant Phonthonglang, 36, was apprehended on Monday and taken to a media briefing at Suvannabhumi airport. Full
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A teacher took his own life at a Pathum Thani school on Tuesday. Police were called to Pathum Thani Nantha Munee Bamrung School at 11am and shown the body of Supanat Phudaeng, 31, lying beneath a computer desk in the teachers’ lounge. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
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A bus carrying Taiwanese tourists caught fire at an expressway entrance in Phra Khanong district of Bangkok on Saturday afternoon, sending more than 30 occupants fleeing in panic. No injuries were reported. The bus, belonging to YSK Transport Co, caught fire at around 1pm shortly after entering the inbound Chalerm Mahanakhon
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A taxi motorcyclist blocked a passenger from using a Grab Bike service on Friday evening and came under strong criticisms by Facebook users after a clip of the aggression went viral. A Facebook user using the account name Vee Thunyavee posted a clip on her Facebook wall of a taxi motorcyclist
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A THAI MAN wanted for raping his own 15-year-old daughter, and another adult male relative wanted for the same offence, were both arrested in Pathum Thani province on Friday. The two accused, whose names are being withheld to protect the rape victim’s identity, have denied the allegations. Full story: The Nation By The
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BANGKOK — Police on Friday were still trying to convince a monk to descend from a cell tower where he had remained perched more than 24 hours. Phra Theerathanatnaruttha, abbot of Buddha Jayanthi monastery in Bangkok’s Thawi Watthana district has stayed on the tower 20 meters above the ground since Thursday
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