All news on the topic: Thailand

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Family’s £3,000 Thailand holiday ruined after airline refused to board schoolboy
A schoolboy was denied boarding a Qatar Airways flight for his family’s £3,000 Thailand holiday - due to a faint ‘sticker mark’ on his passport.
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Pregnant British teen Bella Culley to give birth in Georgian prison after family fails to pay full fine
Pregnant British drug mule Bella Culley will be forced to give birth inside a Georgian jail after her family failed to pay a massive fine in exchange for her freedom.
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US signs new economic agreements with Southeast Asian partners
Thailand and Cambodia have signed an expanded ceasefire agreement during a ceremony attended by US President Donald Trump, whose threats of economic pressure encouraged the two nations to halt skirmishes along their disputed border earlier this year.
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Prince Andrew ‘entertained himself in exotic ways’ during official Thailand trips
Prince Andrew used official trips to Thailand to meet women who were drawn to his royal status, a retired UK official has said.
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British teenager survives two weeks in Thai jungle before being found at remote temple
A teenager relied on every instinct to survive Thailand’s unforgiving jungles and was rescued after stumbling upon a remote Buddhist temple.
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Pet lion owned by Thai TikToker mauls boy and man after escaping cage
A pet lion belonging to a Thai TikToker escaped and attacked an 11-year-old boy and a man who attempted to assist him.
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Concerns increase for missing British teenager spotted ’heading to scam compound in Myanmar’
A British teenager missing in Thailand is feared to have been pulled into a scam operation run by Chinese gangs.
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Wild elephant crushes 79-year-old man in central Thailand
A grandfather was tragically trampled to death by a wild elephant that entered his garden in search of food.
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Vietnam reports 19 dead, 21 missing after Typhoon Bualoi
The death toll from Typhoon Bualoi in south-east Asia has risen to more than 30, as heavy rains continued to lash the region.
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In Thailand, four Britons allegedly tried to rob man by running him off his moped
Four British tourists have been arrested following allegations that they robbed an American lawyer at gunpoint for his luxury watch.
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British teen jailed for smuggling 14kg of cannabis from Thailand
A British teenager who was caught at Heathrow Airport with a large stash of cannabis smuggled into Britain from Thailand has been jailed.
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Former security guard opens fire at Bangkok market, killing at least six people
At least six people have died in a mass shooting at a food market in Thailand.
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War on the threshold: Thailand closes border with Cambodia after rocket strikes and first casualties
Thailand has announced that it will close its land border with Cambodia as violence erupts between the two countries.
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Cambodia arrests nearly a thousand people in a week in a major cyber scam crackdown
Authorities in Cambodia have carried out several arrests this week, detaining almost 1,000 individuals as part of an ongoing crackdown on cybercrime operations throughout the country.
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Thai police dismiss Bella Culley’s torture claims as CCTV shows her calmly walking through airport
A Thai police chief has disputed Bella May Culley’s defence that she was tortured into smuggling drugs as he presented CCTV of her ‘calmly’ walking through passport control by herself.
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Bloody assault in Thailand: Manchester tourist stabbed and dumped on the street
A British tourist is in critical condition in the hospital after being ’stabbed and thrown from a car’ in Thailand.
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18-year-old British woman who went missing in Thailand arrested in Georgia on drug charges
A teenage girl who had been missing for four days in Thailand has been arrested on ‘drug offences’ in Georgia.
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“TikTok holiday” ends in tragedy: British soldier stuck in Thai hospital with £100,000 bill
A British soldier has been left stranded in hospital in Thailand aftersuffering a horrific catalogue of injuries falling at a beauty spot he and his girlfriend spotted on TikTok.
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Speedboat explodes off Thailand coast, tourists and crew jump into the water to escape
A speedboat with 36 tourists and crew on board burst into a fiery explosion off the coast of Thailand.
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‘Run for your lives!’: Tourists stampede as earthquake floods bangkok streets
The video in our player captures the moment terrified locals ran for their lives after water poured onto the street from a high-rise pool
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Myanmar earthquake sees 43 trapped in collapsed building in Bangkok
Three people have died and dozens are missing after a powerful earthquake struck Myanmar, with the impact rocking Thailand’s capital Bangkok.
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Dark Web drug ring leader sentenced to eight years for counterfeit Xanax trade
A man who co-ordinated a multi-million-pound fake medicines operation, including counterfeit versions of the powerful anti-anxiety pill Xanax, has today (Wednesday 27 March 2025) been jailed for eight years.
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TikToker who boasted about UK benefits in Thailand arrested, now on hunger strike
A British TikToker who boasted of living in Thailand while claiming UK benefits says she is on hunger strike after being arrested by Thai authorities.
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Large-scale illegal cryptocurrency mining scheme uncovered in Thailand: six raids and arrests
In response to complaints about electricity theft, authorities conducted raids on three abandoned houses and discovered remotely controlled mining operations.
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Thai police general says tens of thousands could be held in illegal scam compounds in Myanmar
The head of the anti-trafficking agency reports that numerous Chinese criminal gangs were operating the centers.