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A Singapore Airlines flight from London, England, to Singapore makes an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, after experiencing severe air turbulence over the Bay of Bengal, resulting in one death and 104 injuries. 2024-05-21
Two people are killed and 11 others are injured when an elevated road collapses in Bangkok, Thailand. 2023-07-11
Two Thai military personnel are killed and another is injured after a gunman opens fire at a military facility in Bangkok. The gunman is later arrested. 2022-09-14
Thai police arrest a student leader over an anti-government protest last month. The student was arrested in the outskirts of Bangkok while traveling to a protest. Human Rights Watch reports that he will be charged with breaching multiple laws. Police declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. 2020-08-14
An event called "Let's run, Hamtaro" is organised at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok. It was initially an online activism, later spread via Twitter, and eventually gathered around 3,000 people. The event consisted of running around the monument whilst singing a jingle from "Hamtaro", a famous Japanese cartoon, with some amendments to the lyrics as a satire to political corruption. The well-known lyrics from "Hamtaro"; "the most yummy things of all are... sunflower seeds!", was amended into a satire "the most yummy things of all are... citizens' taxes!". 2020-07-26
Thai police say they have discovered bomb-making material in a raid in an apartment in an outer side of Bangkok. 2015-08-31
Thousands of protesters fill the streets of Bangkok, Thailand, after lawmakers pass a draft bill for political amnesty which could allow self-exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to re-enter the country. 2013-11-5
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva says his government is preparing to take back Bangkok and end the seven-week-long protests. 2010-05-2
The Thai army moves into the Bangkok CBD to block the path of protesters. 2010-04-19
Security is increased in Bangkok, Thailand, ahead of anti-government protesters by the "red shirts" over the coming days. 2010-03-12