Police in Thailand will be subject to random checks of their physical and mental health, officials said Thursday, after a 27-hour standoff in which a senior officer holed up and fired a gun into the air until he was subdued by fellow
Thai police on Wednesday detained a senior police officer who fired multiple gunshots from his home in Bangkok, ending a standoff of over 24 hours after his colleagues tried to take him to a mental institution. The gunman, identified as police Lt.
A Thai man was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for selling calendars featuring satirical cartoons of yellow ducks that a court said mocked the country’s monarch, a legal aid group said. Bangkok’s Criminal Court ruled that the calendar for 2021
Thailand’s ambassador to the U.K. joined others for a funeral service Tuesday for one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018, 17-year-old Duangphet Phromthep, who died this month in England. Phromthep, known as Dom, was found
The young soccer player who died in England this week after his team was dramatically rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018 is reported to have suffered a head injury from an accidental fall. Duangpetch “Dom” Promthep, of the “Wild
Duangpetch Promthep, one of the 12 boys who was rescued from a Thai cave in 2018, has died in Britain. While the cause of his death remains unclear, Mr Promthep reportedly suffered from a head injury. He was the captain of the Thai
An overnight rescue operation successfully retrieved a 19-month-old girl from a dry artesian well shaft Tuesday — 18 hours after she fell into the hole at a cassava farm in northern Thailand. Rescuers clapped and cheered as the toddler, the daughter of
A court in Thailand sentenced a 27-year-old political activist to 28 years in prison on Thursday for posting messages on Facebook that it said defamed the country’s monarchy, while two young women charged with the same offense continued a hunger strike after
A British backpacker shattered his hip when he plunged 130ft from a waterfall in Thailand in a horrifying Christmas Eve accident. Twenty-year-old Joshua Kohler had hiked to the top of the Na Muang waterfall on the island of Koh Samui “to get