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Thailand depends on its tourism sector, and normally welcomes 14 million visitors annually. But Covid-19 saw visitor numbers plunge to just four million last year.

The tourist town of Phuket is witnessing the worst flood in 30 years. Parts of the town in southern Thailand witnessed knee-deep waters after unprecedented rain that bought life to halt. Heavy rain affected markets in Phuket forcing shops to close.

The country legalised cultivating and consuming cannabis in June, reversing a hard-line approach of long prison sentences or even the death penalty for drug offences.

At least 31 people are believed to have died after a former police officer opened fire at a childcare centre in Thailand, police say.

With the country in turmoil and protestors demanding sweeping reforms - the King - in an exclusive interview with this programme and CNN - has called his country "the Land of Compromise," suggesting there may be a way out of the long running political impasse.

Funerals have been taking place in Thailand for those who were killed, many of them children, following the country’s worst mass killing.

Passengers on Thailand's 'floating train,' which passes through one of the country's biggest dams, can enjoy the illusion of being suspended on the water.

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Itinuturing na milagro ng magulang ng 3-anyos na batang si Ammy ang pagkakaligtas nito sa madugong massacre sa isang nursery center sa Thailand l, na ikinasawi ng nasa 30 katao kabilang ang 22 bata.

Floodwaters in Chiang Mai were reported as receding levels yesterday after a respite from storms saw the Ping river water level dropping. The city is still far from dry but any drain off is welcome. Pumps are still running 24/7 to speed up the cleanup. The drop in river levels is slowly passing downstream toward the capital as heavy rains have subsided leaving behind the filth and aftermath for residents to clean up. Toward the capital, flooded plains, where waters were diverted in an attempt to avoid overflows in the capital, have seen farmers reporting a zero chance of crops. Nationwide, 3 and a quarter million rai of farm and homeland remains flooded, spreading over 25 provinces, with Nakhon Sawan showing the greatest of devastation. Closely followed by Ayutthaya, Pichit, Suphan buri, Sukotai, Kamphaeng phet, and most of Issan.

As we reported yesterday on a police search here in Thailand for a local man wanted in TAIWAN, for the ki||ing of a couple he was in business with, so claims now are being bandied about, of the trio being involved in telephone call centre scams and more, involving the hiring of Thai's to work in Taiwan. Yesterday saw the deceased woman's brother defending her and denying that their business wasn't in any way illegal, but also confirming that the dispute was.. over money. It seems the lady and her husband claimed to him that their ki||er owed them millions. The ki||er, Mr Santi, is wanted in connection with the mu rder in Taiwan of Prasert Norat, 32, and his wife Potjanee, 35. The mu rdered woman was five months’ pregnant with twins. He fled to Thailand after they were slain and has gone into hiding.

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A dramatic video captured a team of veterinarians, national park staff and volunteers rescuing a baby elephant that fell into a manhole and its mother elephant in Khao Yai National Park in Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand.

35 ang patay sa pag-atake sa isang nursery o childcare center sa Thailand.

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Sources in the rescue operation, including divers who took part, told the BBC that the boys were heavily sedated ahead of the rescue to prevent them panicking in the dark, narrow, underwater passageways.

With Chiang Rai airport expected to remain closed until at least tomorrow, following the crash landing of a Nok air flight during a storm, airport teams are working to remove the plane which was landed safely by its pilot, albeit skidding off the strip and onto grassland. The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand expects to interview the pilot this week to establish the sequence of events AND why he chose to keep all passengers and crew onboard for around an hour. It's obvious that there was no danger to those on board, and all 170 passengers and crew were removed and bussed away from the scene.

Police said a 34-year-old man opened fire at a child care center before killing his own family and himself.

Fighting erupted between the Burmese military and a separatist group in the southeast of Myanmar, close to the border with Thailand. The ethnic insurgents, the Karen National Union, captured and destroyed an army post as part of their campaign to reduce the military's presence in Karen state, where thousands of people have been displaced by a resurgence of fighting.

A former police officer shot dead at least 34 people, most of them children, when he stormed a nursery in eastern Thailand on Thursday in one of the kingdom’s deadliest mass killings.

Was there ever a chance for legal amendment to the law that woud allow small breweries to retail in competition with the bigger ones? Yesterday saw the bill go before the house of representatives and fail to be approved by JUST 3 votes, saw the worries of the few mega brewers here allayed. The cabinet had approved the amendment seeing some think that it was an auto win but others commenting that brewing has been the privilege of just a handful of powerful companies for a long time here. Moving forward, the party proposing the amendment plans to continue to push for free competition but chances are it Won't be up for another vote anytime soon, as elections are expected early next year in Thailand.

A dam breach in Myanmar caused chest-high floods in the border areas of northern Thailand on Saturday, according to local media.

HM the King of Thailand expressed his sorrow at the passing of HM the Queen Elizabeth, who died in Scotland Thursday. He went on to wish HM the King Charles III success in his coming reign and remembered with fondness the visits of HM the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Thailand in years gone by. This as acting Thai PM, along with defence minister Prayut and former PM Abhisit along with numerous Thai officials added their condolences in Bangkok, being received by the British Ambassador Mark Gooding to show their respect.

Tens of thousands of young Thai people have been protesting on the streets of Bangkok since July. They have several demands, including the resignation of the prime minister, and for the constitution to be amended.

Thirty-four people were killed in Thailand on Thursday in a mass shooting at a day-care centre by a former policeman who killed his wife and child before shooting himself dead, police said.