A Move Forward MP accused of beating a woman he was romantically involved with apologized today for his actions. In a statement, Sirin Sanguansin has said that he had reached out to the 26-year-old woman who filed a complaint against him for punching her in the face. “First and foremost, I would like to apologize…https://ouo.io/2Xemt1

A woman’s leg was severed from her body after she got stuck on a moving walkway at Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport.  The unidentified traveler was heading to her gate for a flight to Nakhon Si Thammarat province when she tripped and her leg was pulled into the walkway mechanism in the south corridor between…https://ouo.io/E0H7n5y

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A man was crushed to death yesterday by a large Buddha statue he was delivering to a monk’s funeral. Police are investigating the site at Wan Nonkead in Sisaket province after two workers were crushed, one fatally, by the 200-kilogram statue meant for a royal cremation ceremony for a revered local monk. The statue crushed…https://ouo.io/3cdew4

Four firefighters involved in a school fire drill that killed a student sought atonement this morning by briefly ordaining as monks at the boy’s funeral. The four men from the Sam Sen fire station traveled to Bangkok’s Wat Sunthorn Thammathan to make merit at the cremation of 18-year-old Benz Premmanee, who was killed by an…https://ouo.io/iTQLyV

A regular trance festival is spinning off an unlikely event combining sports and trance music. The Unkonscious music festival announced last night that it will launch Knock Out, marketed as the “World’s First Muay Thai Stadium rave event” on Feb. 3, one day after the end of its annual outing. The party will take place…https://ouo.io/L0nhea

Go across a canal from Bangkok’s swanky speakeasies and megawatt malls to find a tangle of tiny lanes weaving through a community long written off as forsaken and impoverished. While visitors flock to tour the Jim Thompson House, few cross a nearby footbridge to where it all began in a claustrophobic maze of homes once…https://ouo.io/MqQWldz

A fire extinguisher exploded late this morning during a fire drill at the Rajavinit Mathayom School in Bangkok’s Dusit district, killing one student. The incident occurred at 11:22am during an evacuation drill at the school located on Phitsanulok Road, during which a fire extinguisher exploded. As a result, five people present were injured, and one…https://ouo.io/BxQQdQ

A funeral will be held this afternoon for the governor who led the charge in the 2018 effort to recover a team of young footballers and their coach from a flooded cave. Former Chiang Rai Gov. Narongsak Osottanakorn will be honored at Wat Phra Sri Mahathat Woramahawihan in Bangkok following his death last night at…https://ouo.io/80mPGFg

A preliminary investigation has found that at least 30 police officers participated in a YouTuber’s stunt without authorization alongside civilians who could be charged with criminal impersonation. Royal Thai Police Commissioner Lt. Gen. Damrongsak Kittiprapas said that two of the cops who joined a “hunt” for American former missionary Nathan Bartling, aka My Mate Nate,…https://ouo.io/na98mF