AN UNIDENTIFIED foreign man drowned off Pattaya beach this afternoon (Mar. 19) with officials warning the public to watch out for strong wind and rough waves, Naewna newspaper said. Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan radio centre was alerted of the tourist drowning at Nipa Lodge intersection in Nong Prue subdistrict, Bang Lamung district, at 2 p.m.and
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Elderly woman freezes to death in Korat
WITH THE mercury having dipped it led to an elderly woman freezing to death in the basement of her wooden house in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) province, Amarin TV said today (Dec. 15). Mr. Taweesak Panklang, deputy chief of Ban Rat Tambon Administration Organisation (OrBorTor), Soeng Sang district, was informed of a woman having died
Read moreExplainer: Topsy-turvy weather comes from polar vortex
By Seth Borenstein, AP, published by Microsoft News IT’S as if the world has been turned upside-down, or at least its weather. You can blame the increasingly familiar polar vortex, which has brought a taste of the Arctic to places where winter often requires no more than a jacket. Around the North Pole, winter’s ultra-cold
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