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Exit the Snake, enter the Horse
News, Curtis S Chin and Jose B Collazo, Published on 30/12/2025
» As we bid farewell to 2025, and welcome 2026 -- and soon, the lunar Year of the Horse -- we once again highlight the winners and losers of the year gone by in Asia.
Giant python caught after swallowing dog in Khon Kaen
News, Chakkrapan Natanri, Published on 01/12/2025
» KHON KAEN – A giant python roaming a road in Muang Phon district was captured and released back into the wild after it swallowed a dog and became too sluggish to escape.
Rise of the 'Bangkok Dragon'
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 11/08/2025
» A temporary sculpture of the Asian water monitor at Lumpini Park has shone a spotlight on one of Bangkok's most recognisable residents -- the large lizard often seen basking by the park's lakes.
Snakes released in condo hallway in protest against noisy dog
News, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 20/05/2025
» An annoyed resident of a Bangkok condominium building with a no-pets policy released two large snakes in the corridor as a warning to a neighbour who had been keeping a noisy dog for about two years while management ignored other residents' complaints.
Pregnancy scam bites; hammock attack; canine kill
News, Mae Moo, Published on 13/04/2025
» Pitter, patter of tiny feet
Airports prep for Chinese New Year
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 17/01/2025
» The Transport Ministry has ordered Airports of Thailand (AoT) to prepare for a large influx of passengers during the upcoming Chinese New Year festival between Jan 24 and Feb 2.
Boy bitten by cobra in bedroom in northeast Thailand
News, Online Reporters, Published on 30/09/2024
» A highly venomous cobra made its way into a boy's bedroom and then bit him, at a housing estate in Maha Sarakham province.
Woman rescued from coils of large python
News, Online Reporters, Published on 18/09/2024
» An exhausted woman was freed from the coils of a large snake that had been wrapped around her body for almost two hours, at her house in Samut Prakan on Tuesday night.
Scrotum takes snake's fancy
News, Published on 22/08/2024
» A Samut Prakan man making his morning visit to the toilet was startled on Wednesday by a sudden, sharp pain in his testicles after he sat down.
Cues from Iran on who to vote for
News, Marc Champion, Published on 03/07/2024
» The opposition just won a first round of elections, forcing a runoff in which everything depends on where third-party votes go. No, not in France -- in Iran. You could be forgiven for missing it amid all the excitement over the advance of the French hard right, President Joe Biden's car crash debate in the US and the coming immolation of the UK's Conservative Party. Yet Iran's experience is worth attention, not least as a reminder of what to vote for and why. Iran, to recap, is having a snap contest to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a May helicopter crash. Raisi was also being groomed to succeed the 85-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the unelected post that -- as the title suggests -- matters most in the Islamic Republic.