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Fears and hopes at collapsed Mandalay school
AFP, Published on 30/03/2025
» MANDALAY (MYANMAR) - Rescuers clambered into the wreckage of the Wisdom Villa Private High School on the outskirts of Mandalay on Saturday until a jammed door blocked their passage.
Monorail operator faces penalty over opened door
Post Reporters, Published on 07/07/2024
» The transport minister has ordered disciplinary action against the Pink Line operator after the crew opened a malfunctioning carriage door attempting to close on a bag, without waiting for the train to return to the station.
Benin's famed Voodoo festival draws back Afro-descendants
AFP, Published on 11/01/2023
» OUIDAH (BENIN) - Every year in Benin, locals celebrate a festival in tribute to the deities of Voodoo, the indigenous religion worshipping natural spirits and revering their ancestors.
Woman freed after 3 days trapped in bathroom
Online Reporters, Published on 26/08/2022
» Police have freed a woman who spent three days locked inside her bathroom without a mobile phone and with nothing but tap water for survival.
Killer with a guide, inept shooter, suspect calls the movers
News, Mae Moo, Published on 29/05/2022
» Ex-soldier turns dogged hunter
Child's TikTok stardom lures gunman
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 06/03/2022
» Ava Majury downloaded TikTok when she was 13, and at the height of the pandemic lockdowns a year later had more than a million followers. Her fans, nearly three-quarters of them male, watched her lip-sync and dance to trending music on an account with the profile message, "Hey, I love you!!"
Battling sexists and gremlins
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 12/02/2021
» There's a certain type of thriller movie in which filmmakers try to bring something different to the table by designing a plot with the main character getting stuck in a single location while having to deal with a series of life-and-death situations. This is quite challenging as it forces the director, writer and actor to step up their game as there is limited space and scenery and most of the time, they fail to pull it off.
Hurricane Delta roars ashore on storm-battered US southern coast
AFP, Published on 10/10/2020
» LAKE CHARLES (UNITED STATES) - Hurricane Delta made landfall on the Louisiana coast Friday evening, packing ferocious winds and a "life-threatening" storm surge -- driving out residents still rebuilding from a devastating storm less than two months ago.
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.
BTS fails to communicate
News, Editorial, Published on 09/07/2018
» The BTS Skytrain has gone off the rails. Not literally, thank goodness, but in the past two weeks this vital travel line has failed the public and shamed itself. It has stranded tens of thousands of its own customers, and blocked and inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of others. There is some blame to share, but it is inescapable that the spotlight should fall on the Skytrain operator Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc (BTSC).