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Living in Thailand's age of impunity
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/01/2026
» There's no place like Thailand. Joyscrolling TikTok and Reels reveals dozens of clips made by international visitors lamenting having to leave our lovely country and return to dreary Europe or joyless America. "Nobody talks about how hard it is to go from this" -- insert a cut of a wonderful beach in Krabi -- "to this"--cut to a drab, damp suburban street somewhere in the West. Add a crying-face emoji. "I want to move here!" the traveller announces. True, everybody loves Thailand.
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.
Russian smuggled hash in swallowed condoms
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 07/05/2025
» SURAT THANI – A 36-year-old Russian who admitted smuggling hashish by putting it in condoms he then swallowed has been arrested on Koh Phangan, police said.
Time to combat ignorance to save the Earth
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/12/2024
» More than half the world's people (4.3 billion) own smartphones, and practically everybody has access to one. All the information in the world is available to everybody. Yet willful ignorance and superstition still flourish.
Zoo assures fans Moo Deng did not eat tissue paper
News, Online Reporters, Published on 10/12/2024
» Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chon Buri province has assured Moo Deng’s fans that a tourist did not drop the piece of tissue paper she was seen chewing on in her enclosure - a monkey did it.
Well, that was a wild ride to Govt House
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/09/2023
» Finally, the Pheu Thai-led coalition government of 11 parties has been formed and is expected to assume office either this week or early next week, depending on when the government's policy statement is delivered to parliament by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin.
Reconciliation by accident
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/08/2023
» The Move Forward Party (MFP) must have realised by now that emerging on top at a general election does not guarantee holding the reins of power.
British water privatisation offers cautionary tale
News, Lara Williams, Published on 11/07/2023
» Bills are never popular. They're especially unwelcome when it comes to paying for something that falls from the sky. Unfortunately, as Britain's water systems struggle under financial mismanagement and the pressures of climate change, higher water costs are something consumers are all going to have to swallow.
The baby bonus just does not work any more
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/05/2023
» I was one of five children -- not seen as a particularly big family in Newfoundland at the time -- and there was one year when we allegedly beat Guatemala to have the highest birth rate in the world. (That's probably not true, but people were proud of it anyway.)
Recycle to save sealife, dept urges
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 02/02/2023
» The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) is urging the public to avoid dumping plastic waste into the sea after 11 sea turtle hatchlings died from eating rubbish in Chon Buri last year.