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Oil spill cleanup underway after cargo ship sinks near Phuket
Gary Boyle, Published on 09/02/2026
» Marine authorities are rushing to remove the oil spill from the Andaman Sea after the sinking of a Panama‑flagged cargo ship about 3 miles off Laem Phromthep in Phuket on Saturday while en route from Malaysia to Bangladesh.
Moving train hits collapsed crane, 22 killed
Gary Boyle, Published on 14/01/2026
» A Bangkok-Ubon Ratchathani train collided with a collapsed construction crane in Nakhon Ratchasima, killing 22 passengers and injuring 55 others.
Bridging the gap between sighted and visually impaired students in Thailand
Sophia Lohstapornpipit, Published on 15/10/2025
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Bangkok building collapse tied to construction and design flaws
Gary Boyle, Published on 01/07/2025
» Thai investigators concluded that flaws in the design and construction methods caused the collapse of a partially built Bangkok building that killed at least 89 people during the March 28 earthquake, according to Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
Thai Student Awarded Global Youth Action Fund 2025 for Transforming Hotel Waste into Humanitarian Aid
Published on 15/05/2025
» Bangkok, Thailand – Phoonseeraah “Ada” Tieanworn, a student at Choate Rosemary Hall, USA, has been named by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB)—a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and founded in 1968—as a recipient of the Global Youth Action Fund 2025. This highly competitive award includes $2,500 USD in funding to expand her initiative, Global Hospitality Aid (GHA), which pioneers upcycling of byproducts from Thailand’s hotel industry into survival kits for displaced individuals in conflict and disaster zones around the world.
Five more bodies pulled from rubble
Gary Boyle, Published on 02/05/2025
» Five more bodies have been retrieved from the collapsed State Audit Office (SAO) building.
Four more bodies found in collapsed tower
Gary Boyle, Published on 09/04/2025
» Four more bodies have been found in the rubble that was the State Audit Office tower in Bangkok, as searchers approach an area where many labourers were working when the March 28 earthquake struck.
Hospital building, airport terminal also being built by discredited Chinese company
Gary Boyle, Published on 03/04/2025
» A new building at Songkhla Hospital is being built by the same Chinese company constructing the 30-storey State Audit Office building that collapsed during the earthquake last Friday.
‘Substandard steel’ used in collapsed Bangkok tower
Published on 01/04/2025
» The contractors of the under-construction office tower that collapsed in Bangkok during last Friday’s earthquake apparently used substandard steel bars made by a factory that had been closed by authorities.
Speaking up for success
Nathamon Silprachawong, Published on 05/02/2025
» A student-led YouTube channel is helping Thailand’s youth improve their English.