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Thailand's China-built high-speed rail on track but delayed
AFP, Published on 12/04/2023
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: One of Thailand's oldest railway stations is facing demolition as the kingdom presses ahead with a long-delayed Chinese-backed high-speed line that has caused unease about lost heritage and closer ties to Beijing.
Soldier charged with Army College murders
AFP, Published on 16/09/2022
» Police have charged a soldier with murder over the shooting at an army training facility that left two people dead and another wounded on Wednesday, a police spokesman said on Friday.
Families claim their dead after 29 killed in mass shooting
AFP, Published on 10/02/2020
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Grieving relatives of 29 people murdered by a rogue soldier in Thailand held Buddhist prayer ceremonies Monday, as questions multiply over how and why the unprecedented shooting spree happened.
Korat mall shooting survivors tracked killer via CCTV
AFP, Published on 09/02/2020
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: In a fourth floor toilet of the Terminal 21 mall shoppers jammed cubicle doors against the entrance to keep out a soldier on a shooting spree, tracing his movements through fragments of CCTV passed on by friends on the outside.
Vote banks and cash top-ups: political loyalty up for grabs
AFP, Published on 17/03/2019
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: In his final days as a "Red Shirt" rabble-rouser Suporn "Rambo Isaan" Attawong urged farmers to take up martial arts in defence of Thai democracy as a coup loomed.
Blind children play in orchestra
AFP, Published on 08/03/2015
» Deftly feeling their way along the bumps of the braille score, the young players of Thailand's first blind orchestra memorise scales, defying both their impairment and ingrained negative attitudes towards disability.
Grenade kills two in Bangkok amid fears over political violence
AFP, Published on 23/02/2014
» A woman and a child were killed in a grenade attack Sunday in a main Bangkok shopping district, drawing the Thai prime minister's denunciation of "terrorist acts" as fears over violence mount after nearly four months of political crisis.