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  • Phuket taxi slams into tree in Phattalung

    Phuket taxi slams into tree in Phattalung

    PHOTOS: Phattalung Rescue Two people have sustained serious injuries after a Phuket taxi slammed into a tree in Phattalung last night. Phattalung rescue workers were notified of the accident in Mueang Pattalung District at 7.57pm last night (Sunday). They arrived at the scene to find the Phuket registered taxi resting in front of the big tree on the side of the road near a temple.

  • Thailand is ‘least miserable’ country in the world again

    Thailand is ‘least miserable’ country in the world again

    Thai PM Prayut Chan-o-cha says he’s delighted over Thailand’s rating as the “least miserable” economy in the latest Bloomberg Misery Index. The annual Misery Index is calculated as the sum of a country’s inflation and unemployment rates.  The index compares the average of economists’ forecasts for each country

  • New fires in the North likely to be arson – Army

    New fires in the North likely to be arson – Army

    b y Nathawat Laping  Some 1,000 combined professional and volunteer firefighters are battling a major forest fire in the mountainous area overlapping Chiang Mai’s Muang and Mae Chan districts. The fire started on Sunday night in the Doi Jorakhe area of Tambon Tha Sud in Muang before spreading to Tambon Pa Teung in Mae Chan, a densely populated area and home to Mae Chan Hospital and temples

  • Patong transformer short-out escalates into massive shop fire – VIDEO

    Patong transformer short-out escalates into massive shop fire – VIDEO

    PHOTOS & VIDEO: Phuket Traffic Office People were hastily cleared from around Banana Walk and Patong’s Beach Road was closed off as emergency crews battled to bring a growing fire under control. What started as a simple electrical short in a roadside transformer, quickly escalated into an inferno engulfing nearby roadside shops and nearby buildings

  • Six deaths, many injured as train slams into minivan in Lop Buri

    Six deaths, many injured as train slams into minivan in Lop Buri

    PHOTOS: อาสาสมัครมูลนิธิร่วมกตัญญู เขตพัฒนานิคม  จังหวัดลพบุรี Six people have died while many others are injured after a train collided with a minivan in Lop Buri, north of Bangkok, early this morning. At 4am this morning the train collided with the minivan on the Lop Buri – Bang Muang Road in Pattananikom, Lop Buri. Six deaths have been reported and another 10 injured and rushed to hospital

  • Four dead in Narathiwat minivan accident – PHOTOS

    Four dead in Narathiwat minivan accident – PHOTOS

    PHOTOS: Mettatham Rescue Foundation Four people are dead after a minivan collision in Narathiwat early today.

  • 3 metre python hides in toilet. Bites man’s penis.

    3 metre python hides in toilet. Bites man’s penis.

    SOURCE: Pattaya One News Before you read the story, The Thaiger notices that the video used in the Pattaya One story dated today, is dated four month’s ago. Slow news day in Pattaya?

  • 500 free helmets to be handed out to motorbike drivers before Songkran

    500 free helmets to be handed out to motorbike drivers before Songkran

    FILE PHOTO: Patong Police Patong Development Foundation, along with Patong Police and Patong Municipality, will be handing out 500 helmets to motorbike drivers in Patong before Songkran Day under the campaign ‘Where’s your helmet’. Patong Police Chief Col Anothai Jindamanee says, “Many motorbike drivers have been injured and die in road accident. We want 100 percent of motorbike drivers and passengers to wear helmets.” “We will hand out 500 helmets to motorbike drivers on April 11 (Thursday) from 4.30pm onwards at the police box on Bangla Road, Patong.” The Thaiger notes that most of these helmet hand-out campaigns do little to encourage Thais to wear protective helmets.

  • Sacred waters begin their journey to Bangkok for Royal Coronation

    Sacred waters begin their journey to Bangkok for Royal Coronation

    PHOTOS: Phuket – Kritsada Meuanawong Thailand’s 76 provinces have taken part in a nationwide ceremony to draw sacred water from 108 water sources to be used during the Coronation of HM King Maha Vajiralongkorn on May 4. The ceremony began in all provinces at the same time of 11.52am

  • Recounts and new elections ordered in eight polling stations

    Recounts and new elections ordered in eight polling stations

    PHOTOS: The Nation The Election Commission has decided that two polling stations should recount their ballots while six others should re-hold the election due to discrepancies in the number of ballots in those booths. The two polling stations that have been ordered to re-count the ballots were in Nam Pong District in Khon Kaen province. The poll results they provided did not match the number of the voter turnout, the agency reported.