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Child crash victim Nong Cartoon dies
News, Online Reporters, Published on 12/06/2025
» The young victim of an illegal street racing crash, Nong Cartoon, passed away peacefully on Wednesday evening, 11 years after a horrific car crash that changed her family forever.
Two tourists injured by landslide at waterfall
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 16/04/2025
» Two Filipino women were injured by a landslide while using the stairs at Haew Narok waterfall in Nakhon Nayok province about noon on Wednesday.
Makkasan Train Factory transforms into ghost town
Life, Published on 24/10/2024
» To join the Halloween celebrations, the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the State Railway of Thailand will transform Bangkok's Makkasan Train Factory into an enigmatic ghost town for the Thailand Goosebumps Festival 2024, which takes place from Saturday to Oct 31.
We can always live in a dollhouse
Roger Crutchley, Published on 07/07/2024
» Thai tourism authorities are always quick to make the most of any new fad, which might explain the appearance of a life-sized Labubu doll on the front page of the Bangkok Post this week. Apparently, the mascot is part of a promotion to attract Chinese tourists. I confess to not knowing anything about the Labubu craze although the Post's doll correspondent informs me the designer doll is a "kind-hearted monster with pointed ears and serrated teeth". Hmmm.
UK nurse convicted of baby killings back in court
Published on 12/06/2024
» LONDON - Former British nurse Lucy Letby, convicted last year of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others, went on trial on Wednesday accused of the attempted murder of another newborn in her care.
Breaking the cycle
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 19/03/2024
» 'Our mission is to break the cycle of despair," says Chanya Suebpetch, one of the members of a team of social workers at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok. The 37-year-old works in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Pediatrics. Chanya's work is therefore focused strongly on supporting vulnerable children.
Welcome to the really silly season
Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 24/12/2023
» It's Christmas Eve and we are well into the Jinger Ben season in Thailand (Jingle Bells to the uninitiated). But in these dodgy times one suspects there might not be too much jingling going on. Nonetheless, considering all the gloomy news of late, a couple of weeks of being a bit daft offers a welcome break. So we might as well make the most of the Jinger Ben jollity, like a lady teller at my bank who was sporting some rather cute rabbit ears.
Spanish clergy ‘sexually abused over 200,000 children’
AFP, Published on 27/10/2023
» MADRID - Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission report published on Friday.
Guatemala outsider Arevalo stuns with presidential election triumph
AFP, Published on 21/08/2023
» GUATEMALA CITY - Dark horse candidate Bernardo Arevalo scored a landslide victory in Guatemala's presidential election, final results showed Monday, as he vowed to crack down on pervasive corruption.
British nurse guilty of murdering seven babies
AFP, Published on 18/08/2023
» LONDON: A British nurse was found guilty Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to murder six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK's most prolific killer of children.