AFTER an earthen dam in Myanmar burst today (August 13) huge amounts of floodwater swept into both Mae Sai town in Chiang Rai province and Tachileik town in the neighbouring country with the Sai river still critically four metres high, Naewna newspaper said. Floodwater continues to overflow the barriers and gush into Sailomjoy market
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Singaporean woman dies after slamming sedan into a bus in Phuket
A SINGAPOREAN woman driving a sedan up Phuket’s Kata hill at high speed at midnight last night (August 12) hit a bus coming downhill and later died with her four passengers and three others in the bus getting injured, Matichon newspaper said this afternoon (August 13). Pol. Capt. Chanarong Prakongkua, deputy inspector at Karon
Read moreForeigner apologises for catching parrotfish off southern island
A FOREIGN man wanted for having caught endangered parrotfish off Koh Phi Phi Leh Island, Krabi province, as seen in a TikTok video clip that enraged Thai netizens has now apologised for having done so, Sanook.com said today (August 13). In the video clip that he has already removed he can be standing near
Read moreAuthor Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
By AP and published by Los Angeles Times Chautauqua, N.Y. – Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck today (August 12) by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western
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