カテゴリー: Thailand
The film, about a women who dies and whose spirit returns by possessing a vacuum cleaner, explores power and political oppression in ThailandWhen Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke became the first Thai director to win the Critics Week’s Grand Prize in May, he…
Nattapong Pinta had been seized in the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack and killed, according to Israeli militaryThe Israeli military has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage, Nattapong Pinta, who had been held in Gaza since Hamas’s attack on 7 October …
A growing number of young Thais are turning to AI tools such as ChatGPT for answers about their futureWhen Whan consulted her new fortune teller about the future of her relationship with her boyfriend, she was told that one half of the couple tended to…
A recent winner of four Masters Games gold medals, Sawang Janpram began competing at 97 – motivated by his daughter, now 73For the 105-year-old Thai athlete Sawang Janpram, the day normally starts at 5.30am. He has a breakfast of two boiled eggs, some …
Charlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, flew from the same Bangkok airport as Bella May Culley, who was arrested a day earlierWithin a day of Bella May Culley being arrested at a Georgian airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 14kg of cannabis, the …
Bella Culley, 18, was arrested in Tbilisi on Tuesday on suspicion of illegally buying, possessing and importing large quantities of narcotics including marijuana. The teenager’s family had thought she had gone missing while travelling in Thailand becau…
Thousands of people who fled Myanmar’s civil war to refugee camps in Thailand are struggling to find healthcare after Donald Trump ordered a freeze on US foreign aid spending. In the Thai border region of Tak, clinics inside refugee camps were forced t…
Vesak is the most sacred day for Buddhists, commemorating the birth, enlightenment and death of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, all traditionally believed to have occurred on the full moon day of the Vesakha month in the ancient Indian lunar calendar C…
Sotheby’s sale of Piprahwa gems, excavated after burial with Buddha’s remains, denounced as perpetuating colonial violenceBuddhist academics and monastic leaders have condemned an auction of ancient Indian gem relics which they said were widely conside…
Paul Chambers detained under strict lese-majesty law, which can lead to 15 years in jail on a single chargeA prominent American academic has been detained in Thailand after being charged with insulting the monarchy, a rare case in which a foreign natio…
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said that although no signs of life had been detected, the search for survivors in the rubble of a skyscraper that collapsed during the 7.7 magnitude Myanmar earthquake will continue as experts ‘still have hope’. He…
WHO warns there is urgent need for care capacity, while US agency says number of dead could eventually exceed 10,000The fallout from Myanmar’s earthquake has overwhelmed parts of the healthcare system, the World Health Organization has said, as the off…
World Health Organization issues flash appeal for $8m of emergency support amid frantic search for survivorsAFP has spoken to relatives anxiously waiting at the site of a collapsed building in Bangkok.Daodee Paruay said she had been at the site for two…
Brief moment of relief as rescue workers carry a woman from the rubble of a hotel in Mandalay after a five-hour operationMyanmar earthquake: What we know so farA woman trapped beneath the remains of a hotel building for nearly 60 hours after a devastat…
Social media footage shows water sloshing from rooftop swimming pools in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, as the powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar on Friday. At least 18 people were killed in Bangkok, Thai authorities say, where officials are …