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Get ready to flee flood, Thai PM tells Bangkok

21.10.11
Bangkok began to flood today and residents began to flee as a decision to open floodgates protecting the city appeared to have backfired.... more

Pace in a third alert after Thai floods disaster

20.10.11
Struggling set-top boxes maker Pace wallop investors with its third profit warning of the year as severe flooding hit a major supplier in Thailand... more

200,000 flee flood

17.10.11
Workers fled a huge industrial estate in Thailand as floodwater poured through its defences ... more

'They were our heart and souls', say families of students killed in tragic Thai bus crash

22.09.11
Families of the three London gap year students killed in a Thai bus crash have told how they had been left 'desolate without them'... more

£4,000 a life for tragic gap year Britons

22.09.11
The mothers of three London gap-year students killed in a horrific bus crash in Thailand have been offered just £4,000 for each of their son's lives... more

Thailand lifts Red Shirt state of emergency

21.12.10
Thailand is to lift a state of emergency in Bangkok, eight months after it was imposed during anti-government demonstrations by Red Shirt protesters... more

10,000 flee fighting after Burma election

08.11.10
Fighting between ethnic rebels and Burmese government troops sends at least 10,000 refugees fleeing across the border into Thailand... more

Elephants rescued from Thai floods

18.10.10
Ninety-two elephants are marched almost two miles to drier ground after floods covered homes and paralysed transport in Thailand... more

Thai women told to stop mosquitoes with jeans

09.08.10
Thai health authorities are urging women not to wear fashionable black leggings to avoid attracting dengue fever-carrying mosquitoes... more

British activist in Thai demo weeps as he is freed

08.07.10
British former royal porter filmed inciting people to burn down a shopping centre in Thailand is freed from jail... more

Red Shirts begin the long trek home after the rout

20.05.10
Buildings smoulder across central Bangkok and troops exchange sporadic fire with pockets of Red Shirt resistance ... more

Red Shirts set Bangkok ablaze as troops storm barricades

19.05.10
Video: Bangkok is engulfed by fires and rioting as defeated Red Shirt protesters vent their anger at a military crackdown with a burning and looting spree... more

Thai troops gun down Red Shirts in Bangkok

14.05.10
Violence erupts in Bangkok as troops open fire on protesters, turning the Thai capital into a war zone and prompting the British embassy to close... more

Red Shirt general shot as Thai troops surround protest camp

13.05.10
A Red Shirt-supporting general is shot shortly after a deadline set by Thai troops for protesters to leave their camp in Bangkok ... more

Red Shirts given midnight deadline to leave Bangkok camp

12.05.10
Thai authorities will “lay siege” to Red Shirt protesters in Bangkok as efforts to reach a deal appeared to stall... more

Thai PM's election offer brings end to Red Shirt protest

04.05.10
Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators start returning to the Thai provinces after prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva pulls off a last-minute peace deal... more

Red Shirts ‘sorry’ for Bangkok hospital raid

30.04.10
Patients are evacuated from a Bangkok hospital when Red Shirt protesters storm the building in a hunt for government security forces... more

Thai troops open fire on Red Shirts to block convoy

28.04.10
Government warns Britons to stay away from Thailand as soldier is shot in clashes with anti-government protesters... more

Red Shirts storm station in Bangkok to stop soldiers

27.04.10
Protesters break into a station in Bangkok and threw tyres on the platform today in their campaign to overthrow the government... more

Britons accuse airlines of dirty tricks after eighth night at Bangkok airport

26.04.10
Britons stranded in Bangkok since the Icelandic volcano erupted accuse airlines of telling lies to avoid their responsibilities... more

Britons close to rioting at Thai airport hit by Red Shirt mayhem

23.04.10
Chaotic scenes at Bangkok airport are compared to “the last days of Saigon” as hundreds of exhausted Britons fight for seats on flights out of the Thai capital... more

Blasts kill three and wound 75 at Bangkok protesters' camp

22.04.10
Explosions near an encampment of anti-government protesters in Bangkok kill one and wound up to 50 people... more

Red-shirted revolutionaries take control of Thailand TV station

09.04.10
Protesters storm a TV station closed by the Thai government as soldiers and riot police try to hold them back with tear gas and water cannon... more

Ghosts of the tsunami in Wonderful Town

12.03.09
Beneath its placid surface, Wonderful Town says more than most films which shout much louder.... more

Sick-leave worker had emigrated

23.02.09
A therapist who went on sick leave from his NHS job was sacked when it was discovered he had emigrated to Thailand... more

Thai police arrest Britons in clampdown on child abuse

11.12.08
Suspected British child abusers have been arrested in Thailand in a joint sweep involving local police and British investigators... more


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