death

  • Northern Thailand News

    76 year old Swiss man found dead in his Khon Kaen home

    PHOTO: Srinakharin Khon Kaen Hospital where the man’s body has been taken for autopsy A 76 year old Swiss man has been found dead in his home in Khon Kaen’s city district. Police and a doctor from Srinakharin Khon Kaen Hospital headed to the house in Tambon Muang Kao after neighbours noticed a strong smell coming from the house. The…

  • Thailand News

    Thais encouraged to talk about death

    by Wannapha Kunakornvong – including excerpts from “Greying nation must talk about death” Refusing life-sustaining medical intervention during a terminal illness is now the right of every Thai. It is not guaranteed under the law. Yet most Thais don’t know about the options or about palliative care services which help terminal patients die “naturally” and comfortably, instead of being kept alive…

  • Northern Thailand News

    Questions arise over specs of collapsed wall at school in Khon Kaen that killed 4 year old girl

    by Kritmet Loho Khon Kaen’s governor Somsak Jangtrakul today led police and related officials to inspect a private school building in Tambon Ban Ped in the main city area. The building had partially collapsed during Monday’s hail and rain storm that hit the are, killing a four year old girl.Somsak revealed that an initial investigation shows the building construction hadn’t…

  • Chiang Mai News

    Police investigating death of 33 year old Australian in Chiang Mai hotel

    PHOTO: Chiang Mai News Police are still investigating the death of a 33 year old Australian man in Chiang Mai during the week. The man’s body was sent for autopsy whilst police speculate a drug overdose may have been the cause. The body of the man, identified as Daniel Thomas Janse was found at 4pm on April 17 at a…

  • Hua Hin News

    Man charged over shooting death in Prachuap Khiri Khan, claims it was an accident

    A 38 year old Thai man has been arrested and charged over the alleged shooting death of a 9 year old boy and then burying his body in a forest area in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Hua Hin district. Third grader Chalermchai Jopratha from Ban Phraek Takhro was reported missing on March 10. He was found yesterday morning in a shallow…

  • Krabi News

    Krabi woman fakes death to avoid “loan sharks”

    PHOTO: Sanook A 30 year old woman named Sudawan, who went online to post pictures of herself, apparently dead with cotton wool stuffed up her nose, has now been located. Relatives went to the police because they did not believe she was dead. They told police that they thought she went into hiding after finding out she had to pay…

  • South Thailand News

    One dead and two injured in ambulance crash in Trang

    PHOTOS: The Nation An ambulance has collided into a truck in Trang province today. The crash killed an assistant nurse and injured two others. Police say the accident occurred on a bypass road in the province’s Huai Yot district before 6am. The ambulance belongs to the Wattanapat Hospital Trang. The ambulance was on its way back to the hospital after…

  • Thailand News

    College student found dead in a bathroom in Nakhon Ratchasima

    A third-year student of a technical college in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Mueang district has been found dead in a college bathroom today, according to police. The 20 year old male IT department student, was found lying face-down on the floor of the bathroom on the third floor of one of the college buildings. A doctor determined that he had died about…

  • Thailand News

    Another beaten Thai Army private dies of injuries

    PHOTO/VIDEO: Facebook/Rejecttime Yok Infantryman Khacha Pacha, hospitalised onAugust 21 after being beaten by three other soldiers at a Lop Buri Army camp, has died this morning. His pregnant wife confirmed the death on her Facebook page today (Friday). It included a photo of her hand grasping his as he lay in his hospital bed and the caption, “I know you are…