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AP PHOTOS: As Thailand approves same-sex marriage, a couple celebrates feeling freed
BANGKOK (AP) — Kunchanok Khantiphong and Edward Jonathan Caiga were at work when Thailand's Senate voted to allow same-sex marriages on a June afternoon. At home that evening, the couple celebrated over hopeful conversations of how their lives would change. Marriage and building a...
Thailand legalizes same-sex marriage, allows couples to wed starting in January
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s landmark marriage equality bill was officially written into law Tuesday, allowing same-sex couples to legally wed. The law was published in the Royal Gazette after endorsement by King Maha Vajiralongkorn, and will come into effect in 120 days. This means...
Thailand's adorable pygmy hippo Moo Deng has the kind of face that launches a thousand memes
CHONBURI, Thailand (AP) — Only a month after Thailand's adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable. Fans unable to make the two-hour drive to Khao Kheow Open Zoo from the Thai capital Bangkok to see her in person can watch her video clips...
Huge python grabs Thai woman in her kitchen, squeezes her two hours before she can be freed
BANGKOK (AP) — A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her. “I was about to scoop some water and when I sat down it bit me immediately,”...
Searchers recover 3 bodies from Thai rail tunnel that collapsed during construction
BANGKOK (AP) — The bodies of three foreign workers who were trapped for days in a railway tunnel in northeastern Thailand that collapsed during construction have been retrieved after an intensive rescue effort, Thai officials said Friday The tunnel is a part of a Thai-Chinese...
Former national police chief in Thailand charged in alleged cover-up of Red Bull heir's deadly crash
BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Thailand on Thursday indicted a former national police chief in connection with an alleged cover-up of a 2012 Ferrari crash involving an heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune that killed a police officer. Former Police Chief Gen. Somyot...
Searchers dig in muddy swamp near Bangkok where plane carrying 5 Chinese tourists, 4 Thais crashed
BANGKOK (AP) — Searchers dug into the mud of a flooded mangrove swamp outside Bangkok on Friday for plane fragments and the remains of the five Chinese passengers and four Thai flight crew members believed killed in a crash shortly after takeoff. Around 300 officers and rescue...
Small passenger plane crashes on flight to eastern Thailand. All 9 aboard are believed dead
BANGKOK (AP) — A small passenger plane on a domestic flight in Thailand crashed Thursday afternoon shortly after taking off from the main airport in the capital, Bangkok, the country’s civil aviation authority announced. It appeared that all nine people aboard had been killed. ...
Groups say they're shut out of global treaty talks on plastics pollution in Bangkok
Experts meet in Bangkok this week to advance what would be the first international treaty to tackle the surging problem of plastic pollution. Final treaty negotiations take place in South Korea in November. Yet most of the people who have been closely tracking the negotiations —...
6 bodies were found in a Bangkok hotel room with no signs of violence. Police think they know why
BANGKOK (AP) — Should visitors to Thailand be concerned about their safety after six people were found dead in a locked hotel room in Bangkok? Thai authorities were quick to stress they believed the incident involved a personal dispute and did not reflect any threat to foreign...
