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Russians killed in boat crash
News, Published on 11/02/2020
» PHUKET: Two Russian children were killed and 19 other Russian tourists injured when two speedboats collided near a marina in Muang district at about 7.50am yesterday.
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6 hurt in Chalong Bay boat accident
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 19/05/2023
» Six people, comprising four Russians and two Thais, were in critical condition after their boat, carrying 37 passengers, hit a channel marker in Chalong Bay in Phuket on Wednesday evening.
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Drills to replace lion dancers in Phuket
News, Published on 19/01/2020
» Phuket plans to welcome the Year of the Rat later this week not with lion dances and wishes of good luck, but with maritime safety drills as it moves to rebuild tourist confidence.
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Thailand 'ready' for Songkran festivities
Panumate Tanraksa, Published on 07/04/2024
» This year's three-week-long Songkran festival with festivities to take place across the country is expected to give tourism a much-needed boost as it is expected to bring in tens of billions of baht in tourism income.
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Sailing into the future in Phuket
News, Published on 18/08/2019
» A blaze on a 240-million-baht superyacht in Phuket may have been put out weeks ago, but worry over its impact on marina businesses is still a burning issue.
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Thai tourism still wounded
Business, Dusida Worrachaddejchai, Published on 25/06/2019
» Next week will mark the one-year anniversary of the fatal tour boat accident in Phuket, and Thai tourism is still paying the price from the incident.
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7 dead, 21 missing after tour boat sinks in Hungary
Published on 30/05/2019
» BUDAPEST: Rescue workers scoured the Danube River in downtown Budapest on Thursday for 21 people missing after a sightseeing boat carrying South Korean tourists sank after colliding with a larger cruise ship during an evening downpour. Seven people are confirmed dead and seven were rescued, Hungarian officials said.
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Floating pastors preach on busy river
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/02/2022
» The ebullient soukous music had been blasting from speakers since before dawn, but at 8am, someone aboard the brightly painted boat docked along the Congo River pressed pause, and a pastor picked up a microphone and began preaching at a volume easily heard onshore.
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River safety needs action
Oped, Editorial, Published on 29/03/2022
» In just one month, there have been two explosions aboard oil tankers on the Chao Phraya River -- which flows through Bangkok and then into the Gulf of Thailand. The accidents claimed two lives, and injured a number of others, as well as alarming river community residents and users of the river. However, the reaction of the Marine Department leaves much to be desired.
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Covid hysteria
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/01/2022
» Re: "Heedless manhunt, Omicron marches on", (PostBag, Jan 10). As I read the Second Secretary to India's remarks concerning the Bangkok Post's recent coverage of an allegedly Covid positive foreign couple who were allegedly taken off-guard by a surprise positive Covid result and/or alleged miscommunication, I could not help but sympathise with the secretary because the recent debacle really reveals just how paranoid much of the Thai public still is regarding Covid.
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