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Airline hit by disability row
Gary Boyle, Published on 15/03/2024
» The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities will look into a complaint filed by a wheelchair-bound activist after an airline denied boarding on the grounds that he had no one to escort him on the flight.
Tragedy sees calls for child-safe cars
Gary Boyle, Published on 22/02/2023
» Parents are being urged to equip their vehicles with seats and seatbelts suitable for young children to prevent a repeat of Sunday's accident in which a six-year-old boy was thrown from a pickup truck on an elevated expressway and fell to his death in Samut Prakan.
Flight ban on disabled tourist investigated
Gary Boyle, Published on 10/02/2023
» The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken up a four-year-old case in which an airline refused boarding to an Israeli tourist using an electric wheelchair.
VIDEO: Hundreds flee burning Pattaya hotel
Gary Boyle, Published on 06/12/2019
» Hundreds of guests ran to safety as fire raced through a hotel in Pattaya early on Friday morning.
Hi-tech bridge for disabled opens in Pattaya
Gary Boyle, Published on 17/05/2019
» CHON BURI: It was hard to imagine how the disabled could use a pedestrian bridge until one was completed in Pattaya recently.
Terminal 21 apologises to disabled student
Gary Boyle, Published on 21/02/2019
» The management of Terminal 21 Pattaya has offered an apology to a disabled woman after her modified motorcycle was pulled out of a handicapped parking space so a luxury car could park there.
Blind woman in tears after paraplegic offers her his eye
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 07/06/2018
» A poor, blind woman left to take care of her 15-month son alone was brought to tears by the kind intentions of a paralysed 59-year-old stranger, who offered to donate one of his eyes to her.
Dangerous roads 'damaging the economy'
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 22/11/2017
» The high road accident rate in Thailand is damaging the economy, the Accident Prevention Network says.
MRT seat removal criticised
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 21/11/2017
» The MRT Blue Line removed 14 seats from one of its service trains on Monday. However, the move received mixed reactions from passengers and observers on social media.
A robber in pink
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 19/06/2013
» A pink raincoat is not the normal choice for a robber, but this was no ordinary thief. Not only did he steal 2200 baht from a Phuket convenience store on Tuesday, but returned minutes later leaving a 10-baht coin on the counter.