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A Dassault Falcon 10 jet carrying six people and flying between Thailand and Russia crashes in the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan. Two people are killed and four more are rescued.
2024-01-20

A heatwave in Asia leads to deaths and school closures in India, and record-breaking temperatures in other countries. Luang Prabang, Laos, recorded a temperature of 42.7 C, while Tak, Thailand, recorded a temperature of 44.6 C.
2023-04-19

The Thailand Public Health Ministry calls for hospitals in Thailand to treat COVID-19 like an endemic instead of a pandemic beginning on March 1.
2022-02-27

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

The death toll from a tourist boat accident off the coast of Thailand's Phuket Island climbs to 41, with 15 people still missing.
2018-07-7

UK Prime Minister Theresa May apologises to the family of Abdul Hakim Belhaj, accepting the fact that the UK's actions led to his rendition to Libya where he was tortured. Belhaj was detained in Thailand by US authorities in 2004. His wife accepts the apology and £500,000.
2018-05-10

Gunmen kidnap four Thai tourists traveling in Nigeria's Rivers State.
2013-08-10

A hearing into the territorial row between Thailand and Cambodia begins at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
2013-04-15

At CITES meeting in Thailand, participating nations vote in effect various restrictions on the trade of critically endangered hardwood trees.
2013-03-12

A court in Thailand jails 79 pro-government "yellow shirt" protesters for storming a state television station two years ago.
2010-12-30