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Seven people are killed, sixteen others are injured, and at least thirty people are missing after an elevated section under construction of the Dao Khanong Expressway Bridge 3-ดาวคะนอง-วงแหวนรอบนอกตะวันตก collapses onto a section of the Chaloem Maha Nakhon Expressway in Bangkok, Thailand. 2025-03-15
Nine people are killed when a Cessna 208 Caravan crashes into a mangrove forest in Chachoengsao shortly after taking off from Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. 2024-08-22
More than 15,000 pro-democracy protesters led by students of the Thammasat University gather near the Grand Palace in Bangkok, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his government as well as a reform of the Thai monarchy. 2020-09-19
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
25-year-old Australian footballer and refugee from Bahrain, Hakeem al-Araibi, is ordered to defend an extradition order back to Bahrain in a Bangkok court, after being detained upon arrival in Thailand for his honeymoon with his wife in November 2018. International community is treating it as a human rights issue; a campaign to free al-Araibi and return him to Australia is growing. 2019-02-4
Michelin unveils its first Michelin Guide for Bangkok, Thailand, which is the sixth city in Asia and second in Southeast Asia after Singapore. 2017-12-6
The Royal Thai Armed Forces deploy against major protests planned for today but a small protest goes ahead outside a shopping mall in central Bangkok. 2014-06-1
Thai authorities consider constructing a waterway linking existing natural canals into a 200-km long "super-canal" that would hold 1.6B cubic meters of water and speed the draining of run-off to prevent flooding like that currently inundating Bangkok and other parts of the country. 2011-11-16
Thailand extends a state of emergency in several provinces and in the capital Bangkok, and lifts the decree in a further five provinces. 2010-07-6
Senior red-shirt leader Arisman Pongruangrong climbs down a rope to escape an arrest attempt by Thai security forces laying siege to Thaksin Shinawatra's SC Park Hotel in Bangkok. He urges protesters to leave Ratchaprasong "to avoid being used as human shields". 2010-04-16