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A Thai military court commences the trial of two Uighurs from the People's Republic of China with the bombing of a popular shrine in Bangkok that killed 20 people.
2016-08-23

Siam Commercial Bank reports eight people were killed and seven others injured in the basement of its Bangkok, Thailand, headquarters during an upgrade of the building's fire safety system Sunday evening. It appears that workers mistakenly activated a system that released pyrogen, a chemical that deprives a fire of oxygen.
2016-03-14

Another suspect in the bombing is arrested in Narathiwat Province in southern Thailand and flown to Bangkok.
2015-09-3

Thai police say they have discovered bomb-making material in a raid in an apartment in an outer side of Bangkok.
2015-08-31

Thai police report a man with a fake passport has been arrested in a Bangkok suburb in connection with the Erawan Shrine bombing. The man was allegedly in possession of bomb making material and dozens of passports.
2015-08-29

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

A blast at an anti-government protest at Victory Monument in Bangkok injures 28 protesters, seven of them seriously.
2014-01-19

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

The Thai Cabinet agrees to lift a state of emergency in the capital Bangkok and three surrounding provinces.
2010-12-21

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