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A tourist who went to the ER department of Bang Lamung Hospital this morning was allegedly refused treatment and told to “come back when you’re dying.” Furious girlfriend Pornthida Thundee, 25, from Surin, turned to reporters after she said that she took 28 year old Iranian tourist Mohammad Hassan Forghani to the emergency room. He…
A charity worker who spent more than a month in the hell-hole conditions of a Thai prison has told how he feared being raped. For 40 days and 40 nights, Sean Felton fought off perverts and killers in the soiled, sewer-stench confines of the rat maze that is Sakhon Nakon Prison. He survived in a…
The Youtuber who made and posted a damning video of a taxi driver after a journey from Suvarnabhumi airport has gone to police after receiving an email that looks like an extortion attempt. Daniel Lee McKee, 30, – also known as Danny Mac on his popular YouTube channel – showed an email he has received…
Police in Pattaya raided a drug fuelled sex party at a hotel in the resort town on Saturday night. Local police, immigration officers and Tourist Police carried out the raid after reports that the 30 room hotel located in the Nong Prue area was being used to host sex and swinging parties. As many as…
Before everyone falls about laughing at the headline, we just couldn’t resist using it ! Taxi drivers at Suvarnabhumi International Airport will be the first group of cabbies to be given a crash course in English conversation and basic writing free of charge. The training courses would be provided by the Thailand Professional Qualification Institute…
A British tourist collapsed and died of heart attack while watching girls in a go-go bar on Soi Cowboy. The unnamed man, who is thought to be in his 60s was in the bar, which has not been named, on Wednesday evening. He was sat near the stage waving a foam toy around when…
Earlier this week, Wanicha Ouyub visited her man doing time in prison. He was over halfway through a two-year sentence and in high spirits. Two days later, she was staring at his purple-bruised body on a table at Bang Bo Hospital. And in the days since she went online to call attention to the suspicious…
A Thai worker is in a coma in Taiwan after he consumed freshwater shellfish in March. Now his desperate wife is trying to raise money to bring him home to Thailand so she can say her last goodbye’s on home soil. Chatchai Khuridee was one of a group of nine people who…
Five people have been killed and 3,758 homes in 144 districts of 36 provinces affected by summer storms, said Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department director-general Chayapol Thitisak on Friday. Early relief aid, including home repair assistance and distribution of relief bags was provided by Army, local administrative officials and related agencies, he said. Affected were…
Five teenagers were killed and four others injured when a speeding pickup truck returning from Sa Kaew’s Songkran celebration flipped and slid into a roadside ditch on Thursday night, police said. Pol Colonel Setthanat Timwat, commander of Wang Nam Yen police station, said the accident happened at 9.50pm on Khao Chakan-Wang Nam Yen road about…