Chadchart wins the Bangkok governor contest by a crushing landslide after a slick re-election campaign
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt is heading for another landslide as two major polls predict a crushing re-election victory, cementing the former coup detainee’s rise as… Read More ›
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Vietnamese woman slashed in Bangkok by obese man who told reporters he doesn’t like overweight people
Homeless man slashes Vietnamese office worker with a box cutter in Bangkok’s Silom district before police hunt him down using CCTV. Officers say he admitted… Read More ›
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Aussie arrested for murdering a teenage girl in Pattaya faces the death penalty if convicted by a Thai court
Australian Simon Carman faces Thailand’s death penalty after police say CCTV tracked him from a Pattaya hotel to a suitcase containing a murdered 17-year-old girl… Read More ›
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Chinese woman linked to huge 20 billion baht fraud arrested in Chiang Mai by Immigration Bureau cops
Chinese fugitive “Madame Zheng” has been arrested in Chiang Mai after an international manhunt over an alleged ฿20 billion cloud investment scam. Police say more… Read More ›
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Sundays are for hopping over stepping stones across a river. There's a stone missing in the middle. Immediately, a quest decision prompt flashes up before my eyes, offering three choices: turn back in humiliation; attempt the leap and risk perishing in the writhing waters, leaving this week's Sunday Papers unfinished; or pile up smaller stones into a rudimentary foothold – an alteration of the river's flow that will surely lead to calamity miles downstream in the Humber Estuary. Urgency is added by the arrival of swarms of flies.
I chickened out and turned back in the end, but not before taking a lovely photo. Anyway, here are some things to read. Read more
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