All news on the topic: Thailand

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Speedboat explodes off Thailand coast, tourists and crew jump into the water to escape
A speedboat with 36 tourists and crew on board burst into a fiery explosion off the coast of Thailand.
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‘Run for your lives!’: Tourists stampede as earthquake floods bangkok streets
The video in our player captures the moment terrified locals ran for their lives after water poured onto the street from a high-rise pool
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Myanmar earthquake sees 43 trapped in collapsed building in Bangkok
Three people have died and dozens are missing after a powerful earthquake struck Myanmar, with the impact rocking Thailand’s capital Bangkok.
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Dark Web drug ring leader sentenced to eight years for counterfeit Xanax trade
A man who co-ordinated a multi-million-pound fake medicines operation, including counterfeit versions of the powerful anti-anxiety pill Xanax, has today (Wednesday 27 March 2025) been jailed for eight years.
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TikToker who boasted about UK benefits in Thailand arrested, now on hunger strike
A British TikToker who boasted of living in Thailand while claiming UK benefits says she is on hunger strike after being arrested by Thai authorities.
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Large-scale illegal cryptocurrency mining scheme uncovered in Thailand: six raids and arrests
In response to complaints about electricity theft, authorities conducted raids on three abandoned houses and discovered remotely controlled mining operations.
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Thai police general says tens of thousands could be held in illegal scam compounds in Myanmar
The head of the anti-trafficking agency reports that numerous Chinese criminal gangs were operating the centers.
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Thousands rescued from illegal scam operations in Myanmar as Thailand initiates a major crackdown
Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos have become safe havens for criminal syndicates conducting online scam operations and deceiving thousands into forced labor.
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Women kept as slaves on human egg farm
Around 100 women were kept as slaves on a human egg farm in Georgia where they were fed hormones and treated like cattle.
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Casinos, high-rises, and fraud: A visit to a bizarre city built on scams
The tall, shiny buildings which rise out of the cornfields on the Myanmar side of the Moei river are a sight so jarring you find yourself blinking to be sure you haven’t imagined it.
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Power cut disrupts billion-dollar global scam industry, but doubts remain about its impact on stopping the swindling
Thailand cut electricity supplies on Wednesday to several areas in neighboring Myanmar that are home to sites at the center of a global, billion-dollar online scam industry.
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Hamas to release three Israeli and five Thai hostages on Thursday amid ongoing uneasy truce
Hamas are set to release eight more hostages taken on October 7, 2023 on Thursday, as the fragile ceasefire with Israel continues.
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Bird feathers and blood discovered in both engines of crashed jet in South Korea
Investigators found bird feathers and blood in both engines of the Jeju Air (089590.KS), opens new tab jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing 179 people, a person familiar with the probe told Reuters on Friday.
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21-year-old backpacker found dead in hotel room on Thailand’s ’Death Island’
Robby Kinlan, 21, was discovered lying on his hotel bed on the island of Koh Tao in Thailand, the site of dozens of young people’s unexplained deaths over the years
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Baby gorilla rescued from Turkish Airlines plane cargo hold
Five-month-old, now named Zeytin, was found in a box on a flight that was travelling from Nigeria to Thailand.
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Thailand seizes 996 Bitcoin miners in electricity theft bust
Thai authorities expose digital asset trading firm JIT Co. for bypassing millions in power costs with altered meters.
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Missing Brit’s body found naked on Thai beach after argument
Regan Kelly, 28, from Selsdon, south London, had just started a month-long trip to Thailand when his family tragically...
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22-year-old Spanish student dies in Thailand after elephant attack
A Spanish tourist has died after an elephant forcefully knocked her over with its trunk at a popular animal sanctuary in Thailand.
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A South Korean plane with 181 passengers crashed, only two people survived
179 people are presumed dead after a plane crashed while landing at an airport in South Korea.
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British woman jailed in Thailand for attempting to have sex on a table identified and pictured
The identity of a British woman languishing in a Thai prison cell after allegedly trying to have sex on a glass table has been revealed.
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British man dies after eating mushrooms while on holiday in Thailand
A 25-year-old British tourist has died in Thailand after suffering a severe reaction to magic mushrooms.
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Netflix "Too Hot to Handle" reality star arrested ’after being caught smuggling £150,000 worth of drugs into the UK’
A Netflix reality star has been arrested for attempting to smuggle £150,000 worth of drugs from Thailand.
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British tourist dies after ’losing control’ of motorbike in Thailand
A British man died in a motorbike crash in Thailand overnight.
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Thailand’s anti-graft body begins new probe into troubled political opposition
Thailand’s anti-graft body on Friday said it was investigating 44 members of the disbanded Move Forward party, following a complaint seeking their lifetime bans from politics for backing legislation aimed at amending a law against royal insults.
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Thai court sentences YouTube chef, son of Spanish actors, to life in prison for murder
A court in Thailand on Thursday found Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a famous Spanish acting family, guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison, in a lurid case that involved the victim being dismembered.