Artikel tagged “News”

  • More dead whales along the southern Gulf coast

    More dead whales along the southern Gulf coast

    Two young Omura whales have been separately found on Songkhla’s beaches. They were probably from the same herd. The bodies had already started decomposing when they were found.

  • Real police charge three Filipino women working for ‘fake’ charity in Pattaya

    Real police charge three Filipino women working for ‘fake’ charity in Pattaya

    PHOTO: Chaiyot Pupattanapong Pattaya police arrested three Filipino women for collecting donations from tourists for an ‘imaginary’ children’s foundation. The three women, 38 year old Ruthie Espina Babila, 50 year old Jessica Bayutas Ortega and 55 year old Belinda Austria Toledo claimed to represent the ‘Children’s Joy Foundation’

  • Six metre king cobra caught by rescue workers in Trang – VIDEO

    Six metre king cobra caught by rescue workers in Trang – VIDEO

    VIDEO/PHOTOS: หน่วยกู้ภัยบรรเทาวังวิเศษ A 20 kilogram, 6 metres king cobra has been caught in Trang by rescue workers. 77 Kaoded news reports that Sikao Police in Trang were notified of the incident at a house at 4.45pm yesterday .  Police decided it wasn’t quite in their work contract and contacted rescue workers who headed to the house

  • Bangkok smog to hit Thailand in the tourism pocket

    Bangkok smog to hit Thailand in the tourism pocket

    Bangkok’s air pollution problems will take a hefty toll on the Thai economy unless authorities can effectively clear the city’s air and find some long-term solutions to smog.

  • Weather for January 16

    Weather for January 16

    Bangkok Morning clouds followed by afternoon sun. High 33ºC

  • Thai-owned Dusit D2 Hotel under fire in Nairobi

    Thai-owned Dusit D2 Hotel under fire in Nairobi

    PHOTO: Google Maps Two explosions and gunfire have been heard amid an apparent attack at an upscale hotel and office complex in Kenyan capital Nairobi. News just in from independent.co.uk “We are under attack,” another person in an office inside a complex in the DusitD2 hotel told Reuters, then hung up. Local television showed smoke rising from the area.

  • Sex training guru Anastasia and Russian compatriots on trial today in Bangkok

    Sex training guru Anastasia and Russian compatriots on trial today in Bangkok

    The Belarusian model, who was originally charged with running ‘sex training’ courses in Pattaya, but later made sensational claims she had ‘dirt’ on Donald Trump, has appeared in a Bangkok court today. The story started with an arrest in Pattaya over sex training courses for Russians nearly a year ago, and ended up with allegations over Russian oligarchs and Russian influence in the 2016 Trump presidential campaign

  • What’s the use of number plates if you can’t read them?

    What’s the use of number plates if you can’t read them?

    by DW (anonymously sent to The Thaiger) Hiding in plain sight, and rarely noted—at least by anyone I’ve spoken with—are thousands of cars, vans, buses, trucks, and even motorcycles. Most are commercial vehicles … you know, the ones with green and yellow plates

  • Driver charged in Chumphon tour bus accident

    Driver charged in Chumphon tour bus accident

    PHOTOS: หน่วยกู้ภัยมูลนิธิชุมพร //บางหมาก 02 / MulnithiChumphrKarKuslSngKheaaH A tour bus driver has been charged for reckless driving after yesterday morning’s tour bus accident in Chumphon.

  • Face mask fashion as Bangkok batters poor air quality and smog

    Face mask fashion as Bangkok batters poor air quality and smog

    by Kunlaphun Siripimamporn. PHOTOS: The Nation Thick morning winter fog and some heavy smog has forced many Bangkokians into wearing facemasks, even the cheap ones that will nothing to protect them from the fine particulate matter mixed into the air. People wearing masks became a common sight in inner city areas today.