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'Global boiling' feared
Apinya Wipatayotin and Sukanya Pongpaew, Published on 17/03/2024
» Thailand is facing the prospect of another scorching summer, with the highest recorded temperature in the last 73 years already reached this year.
Officials squirm amid Chuvit's Triad exposé
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 09/01/2023
» What began in late October as a raid on a Bangkok night entertainment venue operating beyond the legal hours has now grown into one of the country's biggest corruption scandals.
Silent sins exposed
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 10/07/2022
» About 71% of women and girls with disabilities who are sexually abused do not have access to the justice system.
Officials order removal of cult temple's 'pla ra bong' from stalls
Makkawan Wannakul and Chakrapan Natanri, Published on 12/05/2022
» CHAIYAPHUM: Health officials have ordered all vendors to remove pla ra bong (fermented fish chilli paste) produced at a cult temple in Khon San district from their shelves, following a recent raid on the premises where urine, scurf and body waste of the so-called Phra Bida, or spiritual father, had been consumed by his followers to cure illnesses.
Cult temple searched again, no sign of 'Phra Bida'
Makkawan Wannakul, Published on 11/05/2022
» CHAIYAPHUM: Authorities continued the search of a cult temple in Khon San district on Wednesday in the absence of the so-called “Phra Bida’’, or spiritual father, whose bizarre treatments for illness included having his followers drink his urine and scurf.
Bodies found at cult temple in Chaiyaphum
Makkawan Wannakul, Published on 09/05/2022
» CHAIYAPHUM: Eleven corpses were found in coffins when police raided premises said to be the temple of a cult preaching superstition and providing bizarre treatment for a range of diseases, in Khon San district of this central northeastern province on Sunday.
We will never surrender ... say both sides
News, Dumrongkiat Mala & Thana Boonlert, Published on 15/10/2020
» Anti-government protesters have vowed to keep fighting until their demands for greater democracy and less power for the monarchy are fulfilled, while pro-monarchy groups have also pledged to protect the country's highest institution they love and admire.
Woman stunned by police summons for dead son
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 08/07/2020
» BURI RAM: A woman was shocked to receive a police summons for her long-dead son to report to police in Surin to acknowledge a charge of passing a dud cheque.
Bangkok clinic offers mini face mask for up close beauty treatments
Reuters, Published on 03/06/2020
» As businesses modify their work practices after coming out of lockdown, a beauty clinic in Bangkok’s Pathum Wan district has devised a mini face mask for clients receiving up close and personal cosmetic treatments during the era of the coronavirus.
Furore over TM30 forms
News, Published on 05/08/2019
» Long-term foreign residents are crying foul at the strict implementation of the TM30 reporting rules, saying that it will only penalise law-abiding foreigners and have little effect on ill-intentioned criminals and other wrongdoers who skirt the law and evade the requirements.