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  • Summer storms take their toll on the north-east this year

    Summer storms take their toll on the north-east this year

    It’s been a tough year for residents as a result of summer storms in Thailand’s north-east region. More than 5,000 homes were damaged and 16,000 residents affected by summer storms in Nakhon Ratchasima over the past three months – the assessment from the provincial disaster prevention and mitigation office head Pornchet Saengthong. “Summer storms in this northeastern province this year were more severe than previous years.” He said that from February to May 7, 5,095 homes in 891 villages, covering 16,500 residents, had been damaged in summer storms

  • Massive corals off Rayong start bleaching

    Massive corals off Rayong start bleaching

    PHOTOS: Thon Thamrongnawasawat Massive and aged corals have started to bleach off the coast of Rayong in the Gulf of Thailand. Dr Thon Thamrongnawasawat, assistant dean of the Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart University and a marine biologist says, “The coral in Rayong has started to bleach

  • Motorbike driver dies after colliding with truck in Thalang

    Motorbike driver dies after colliding with truck in Thalang

    PHOTOS: Kusoldharm Rescue Foundation A female motorbike driver died after colliding with a truck in Thalang yesterday. Kusoldharm rescue workers were notified of the accident on Thepkrasattri Road, southbound, in Baan Liphon in Thalang at 6am in the morning.

  • Man arrested for raising protected Red-backed Sea Eagles in Krabi

    Man arrested for raising protected Red-backed Sea Eagles in Krabi

    A man has been arrested for raising three protected Red-backed Sea Eagles in Krabi. Officers from the Thung Thale Wildlife Sanctuary in Krabi arrested 52 year old Nirat Lakthong at his house in Koh Lanta.

  • 27 deaths from Dengue fever already this year

    27 deaths from Dengue fever already this year

    27 people have died from dengue fever in Thailand so far this year. That’s the highest fatality rate, year on year, in the past five years.

  • The Election Commission awards 27 parties with seats in the new parliament

    The Election Commission awards 27 parties with seats in the new parliament

    PHOTO: The Thai PM warms up for the next round of musical chairs in the new Parliament “Someone has moved the goal posts and changed the soccer ball to a golf ball.” The new Thai parliament has now officially become unworkable, and that’s before anyone even sits down to take a vote. Today the Election Commission awarded 26 political parties (that’s more than 25 and just shy of 27) party-list seats in the lower house. The most number of political parties sitting in a Thai parliament before was 11

  • Three drug suspects arrested in Phuket

    Three drug suspects arrested in Phuket

    Three drugs suspects have been arrested in Phuket in separate cases. They’ve been caught with methamphetamine pills, crystal methamphetamine and marijuana. Police arrested a 38 year old man Kanut ‘Joe’ Meelarb at Soi Thepanusorn in Wichit.

  • Game of Thrones, with a grande mocha latte thanks

    Game of Thrones, with a grande mocha latte thanks

    A paper coffee cup has appeared on a table in the great hall of Winterfell in the (spoiler alert) ‘fictional’ (Aghast!), realm of Westeros in the HBO production of Game of Thrones. Sharp-eyed viewers did a double take in Sunday night’s episode, quickly reaching for the remote and asking ‘was that a Starbucks coffee cup’? The latte or grande mocha or soy latte with caramel drizzle, would have been seen a hundred times by a team of shooters and editors, all the way up to the director, before being aired.

  • One dead, one injured after stabbing in Chalong

    One dead, one injured after stabbing in Chalong

    Police are hunting for a Burmese suspect who was involved in the stabbing of a fellow Burmese couple in Chalong. One person is dead and another injured. Chalong Police were notified of the incident in Soi Klumyang at Chalong on Sunday

  • Forest fires very close to a revered shrine in Mae Hong Son

    Forest fires very close to a revered shrine in Mae Hong Son

    Fires continue to rage in the northwestern province of Mae Hong Son over the weekend. One of them got very close to a revered Guan Yin shrine in Muang district last night (Sunday). A fire broke out in the forest behind the shrine on the Mae Hong Son bypass in Ban Mai Ngae village of Tambon Pang Moo at 7pm, surprising and scaring villagers and motorists.