Local news

Chinese tourists’ school uniform fad reaches Phuket

  WITH Phuket now bustling as a large number of both Thai and foreign tourists flock in, it is Chinese tourists who are making waves with their fad to take photos clad in Thai school uniforms at key downtown spots, Matichon newspaper said today (Mar. 11). This trend among the Chinese tourists to wear Thai

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Life

Families argue after ninth grader badly slashes fellow student for ‘bullying’

  THE families of two students with one having badly slashed the other for allegedly bullying him argued over compensation while the injured boy denied tormenting his classmate, Sanook.com said today (Sept. 7). The unnamed ninth grade student at a school in Pakham district of Buriram province used a grass hook which he brought from

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World news

Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada

By Reuters Staff, published by Euronews.com Toronto – The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School

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Local news

Bangkok school closed after Covid cases emerge at nearby factory 

BANGKOK Metropolitan Administration (BMA) ordered a school in Phasi Charoen district closed after 27 workers at a factory in its neighbourhood were found infected with Covid-19, Thai Rath newspaper reported this evening (Feb. 2, 2021). BMA’s spokesman Pol. Capt. Pongsakorn Kwanmuang said Wat Chan Pradit Tharam School had been ordered closed till Friday Feb. 5

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