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Nong Nooch offers 5,000 baht to name new elephant
Nong Nooch Tropical Garden is offering 5,000 baht and an overnight hotel stay to the person who names the elephant park’s latest arrival. ...
Four male family members arrested for five year’s of sexual abuse...
The father, grandfather and two uncles of a Bang Saray girl have been arrested for allegedly raping the child for the past five years....
Superstitious Bang Saray locals mistake homeless man for ghost
A homeless man seen eating offerings left at a Bang Saray shrine scared superstitious neighbors who believed he was a ghost looking to be...
Fugitive in 2004 Kamphaeng Phet robbery captured in Sattahip
A man wanted for armed robbery in Kamphaeng Phet was finally jailed after police in the northern province discovered he’d been hiding out in...
Sattahip police arrest final suspect in fatal June shooting
Sattahip police have arrested the final suspect wanted for the June shooting death of a Khet Udomsak fireman and injury of another rival outside...
Wild nines light up Nong Nooch for lent
Nines were wild at Nong Nooch Tropical Garden as nine elephants with a combined age of 99 years cast nine candles to present to...
Nong Nooch announces birth of elephant calf
Bird, Nong Nooch Tropical Garden’s top breeding elephant, added to his impressive total of offspring with the July 16 birth of his 41st calf....
Dutch-Thai gay couple arrested for dealing drugs in Najomtien
A Dutch-Thai gay couple has been arrested for allegedly using and selling methamphetamines in Najomtien. Jacobus van Alphen, 59, Dutch, and Alee Kuma, 25,...
Sattahip police arrest ‘Blue Dragon’ vehicle-theft gang
Four ex-convicts who formed the “Blue Dragon” gang after being released are back behind bars, accused of burglarizing more than 100 homes, stealing cars...
Paranoid Rayong man found dead in canal
A Rayong man who disappeared July 2 in a fit of paranoia was found dead a day later in an area canal. The body...
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