Tag: BANGKOK

Year-long funeral starts for Thailand’s former queen Sirikit

Thousands of grieving Thai royalists lined the streets of Bangkok on Sunday, saluting a procession bringing former queen…

Black-clad Thai mourners weep for former Queen Sirikit

Around a dozen Thai mourners dressed in black sat outside a Bangkok hospital where the former Queen Sirikit,…

Huge sinkhole swallows part of a road in Thailand’s capital

Bangkok — A massive sinkhole swallowed part of a major road in Bangkok on Wednesday, disrupting traffic, damaging infrastructure…

By CBSNews

Lawyers, a US academic and a former leader – the list of those ensnared by Thailand’s royal defamation laws keeps growing

Arnon Nampa’s youngest child runs toward the sound of shackles.The 3-year-old’s only memories of his father, a prominent…

Should L.A. look to ‘sponge cities’ to solve its flooding problem?

In 2019, when the Thai government announced plans to turn an abandoned tobacco factory in the nation’s smoggy…

By Max Kim

Exclusive-Thai gallery removes China-focused artworks after ‘pressure’ from Beijing

By Poppy McPherson and Napat WesshasartarBANGKOK, (Reuters) -One of Thailand’s top art galleries removed, at China's request, materials…