By Anton L. Delgado, AP, and published by Yahoo!News KANCHANABURI: A depot on World War II’s infamous “Death Railway” has resurfaced from beneath a reservoir where the site has remained underwater for decades, prompting researchers to race to western Thailand to survey the remnants of Nithe Station. Thousands of Allied prisoners of war and
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Police arrange psychiatric assessment of foreign couple who abandoned baby
POLICE have asked psychiatrists to assess the mental condition of a foreign couple over the death of a baby girl they abandoned under a rain tree in Udon Thani province on Wednesday (June 10) as they refused to cooperate with investigators, denied the charges and were chanting prayers loudly at the police station, TV
Read moreKhon Kaen MP gets death threats after probing factory polluting farmland
A KHON KAEN MP who had joined several agencies and community leaders in inspecting a large chemical factory on May 1 after years-long complaints of wastewater being discharged into farmland has filed a police report after receiving death threats, Amarin TV said today (May 12). As the villagers had also filed a complaint with
Read moreFour tourists collapse at Phuket cafe, one dead
THE death of one of five Indian tourists after four of them collapsed while drinking at a popular cafe in Phuket on Saturday night (May 9) remains a mystery and a detailed autopsy is being conducted to determine the cause of death, Amarin TV said late last night (May 10). At 2.06 a.m. Pol.
Read moreMinistry checking whether 72 tigers died of bird flu
CARETAKER Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul today (Feb. 24) ordered the Public Health Ministry to investigate and clarify whether the death of 72 tigers at a Chiang Mai sanctuary was related to avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, Amarin TV and TV Channel 7 said. This followed Dr. Yong Poovorawan, head of the Centre
Read moreCambodian national dies in ICE custody in Indiana
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News WASHINGTON – A detainee died in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Indiana on Monday (Feb. 16), with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said on Wednesday, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody. Lorth Sim, a 59-year-old Cambodian
Read moreFour Myanmar men beat American man to death
AN AMERICAN man was fatally beaten by four Myanmar men in Chom Thong district of Bangkok last evening (Feb. 16) after harassing them for a month to get his former girlfriend to return to him, Amarin TV said. This television station’s news team interviewed one of the eyewitnesses, who is the boss of three
Read moreMyanmar man dies of rabies in Rayong
A MYANMAR man who contracted rabies after being bitten by a puppy has died, becoming the first person in Thailand to do so in 2026 with owners of dogs and cats urged to vaccinate them against this disease annually, Naewna newspaper said today (Feb. 13). Dr. Montien Kanasawasdi, director-general of the Department of Disease
Read moreKorat crane accident death toll down to 30; ITD still holding 2 contracts
THE DEATH toll from a huge crane at the construction of a high-speed rail bridge falling on a Bangkok-Ubon Ratchathani train just as it was passing Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) on Wednesday (Jan. 14) has been reduced to 30 from 32 amid ongoing forensic procedures as rescuers had yesterday recovered both intact and incomplete bodies
Read more16 Thai soldiers killed so far, over 300 injured
THE Thai military said clashes and attacks are continuing at the Thai-Cambodian border with one officer and a civilian having been killed in Phu Makheua area of Sisaket province today (Dec. 14) taking the military death toll to 16 and 327 injured, Amarin TV said. RADM Surasan Kongsiri, spokesperson of the Defence Ministry, said
Read moreProminent Thai journalist died from cyanide poisoning
POLICE said today (Dec. 5) that the death of renowned TV Channel 8 reporter on Nov. 30 was due to cyanide poisoning after he had returned from work and had drinks with some friends, Amarin TV said. At 10 a.m. on Nov. 30 Pol. Lt. Angkarn Sriyotha, deputy investigating officer at Bang Kruai police
Read more‘Big Joke’ challenges flood death toll as ministry insists not as high as 1,000
A HEATED debate erupted between a senior Public Health Ministry official and former deputy national police chief Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakphan, nicknamed Big Joke, amid speculation that the death toll in the huge Hat Yai floods could reach 1,000 with the latter insisting this is the case, PPTVHD36 said this morning (Dec. 2). Dr.
Read more‘Big Joke’ presses PM to release true southern floods death toll
WITH many people now doubting the accuracy of the government’s death toll in the severe flooding of the South and calling for the real total to be released, former deputy national police chief Pol. Gen. Surachate Hakphan, nicknamed Big Joke, too urged Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to do so and mentioned that the current
Read moreOver 100 bodies found in Hat Yai floods: Police
THAI police said in a Facebook post this evening (Nov. 27) that Forensic Science Centre 9 revealed that they have found over a hundred dead bodies in Hat Yai flooding with 20 of them still to be identified, Naewna newspaper said. National Police Chief Pol. Gen. Kitrat Phanphet mobilised a forensic science team, teams
Read moreAnother Thai man tortured to death at Poipet
A NON-GOVERNMENT Organisation revealed today (Nov. 23) that another Thai man has died in Poipet, Cambodia, after being tortured and electrocuted and it is uncertain whether his body will be recovered, Amarin TV said. The Immanuel Foundation Thailand said in a Facebook post that information about the death of Mr. Narong Kam, also known
Read moreAnother Thai woman dies mysteriously in Poipet
JUST days after a Thai woman allegedly fell to her death from a building at Cambodian border town Poipet, just across from Aranyaprathet, another woman was found hanged in a room there yesterday (Nov. 3), Amarin TV and TV Channel 7 said last night. Mr. Bird, a team member of Immanuel Foundation (IMF) in
Read moreWife confirms mauled zookeeper was not depressed
THE WIFE of a zookeeper who was mauled to death by some lions at Safari World open zoo in Bangkok’s Khan Na Yao district denied he was depressed or suicidal, TV Channel 7 said this evening (Sep. 10). Ms. Rattanaporn Chitphakdee, the wife of Mr. Jian, approximately 50 years of age, told reporters that
Read moreLions at open zoo maul caretaker to death
SOME lions at a private open zoo in Bangkok’s Khan Na Yao district badly mauled a zookeeper who later died through severe blood loss at Intharak Hospital as tourists tried their best to help, Amarin TV and Neawna newspaper said today (Sep. 10). Before the tragic incident the caretaker, only identified as Mr. Jian,
Read morePolice hunting for woman in death of Swedish man in Pattaya
PATTAYA police are urgently searching for an unidentified woman seen in a surveillance camera footage leaving the condominium unit where a Swedish man was found dead yesterday (July 17) with another foreigner, an Australian, also found dead in the same building a couple of hours earlier, Naewna newspaper an Amarin TV said. At 2
Read moreRelatives take Rama II road victim’s body back to their hometown for funeral
THE LATEST victim of debris falling and killing people on Rama II road who suffered a ruptured liver after two chunks of concrete fell on his pickup truck as he was passing beneath a flyover to Samut Sakhon where he worked early yesterday morning (Apr. 29) died last night with this wife and relatives
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