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Gary Boyle, Published on 17/07/2025
» Buddhist monks in Thailand receive monthly food allowances which vary according to their rank, reflecting a centuries-old tradition that continues today.
Gary Boyle, Published on 16/07/2025
» Police have arrested the woman at the centre of a sex scandal involving numerous senior monks.
Gary Boyle, Published on 10/07/2025
» Two senior monks have been defrocked following the seizure of sex videos and over 80,000 images featuring sex between a woman and high-ranking clergy at well-known temples in Bangkok and other provinces.
Gary Boyle, Published on 27/02/2025
» Four people were killed, one a monk, and five others injured when a van taking them on a pilgrimage rear-ended a trailer truck in Nakhon Sawan on Wednesday morning.
Gary Boyle, Published on 27/11/2024
» Officials are investigating monks supervising two connected Buddhist places in the northern province of Phichit, where 73 corpses were stored without permission.
Gary Boyle, Published on 06/02/2024
» The government will organise World Songkran Festival activities nationwide from April 1-21, according to a spokesman.
R May, Published on 01/12/2023
» Four Cambodian men posing as Buddhist monks were arrested Friday morning by immigration police in Si Racha district.
Gary Boyle, Published on 09/05/2022
» Eleven corpses were found in coffins when police raided a temple of a cult in Chaiyaphum on Sunday.
Gary Boyle, Published on 23/12/2021
» Fear of a surge in Omicron cases has led to the cancellation of all events to mark the New Year planned for Bangkok by City Hall.
R May, Published on 09/09/2021
» An elderly man was trapped when part of his house fell into a rain-swollen river in Bang Rakam district on Thursday morning.