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Peoples walk on the elevated pathway under the "Bangkok" signage written on the sky train track in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. After some confusions, the Royal Society issued a clarification explaining: “Writing the capital city’s official name with the Roman alphabet can be done both as Krung Thep Maha Nakon and Bangkok.” (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
It’s Still Bangkok: Thailand Quells Talk of Name Change
  • 18 February 2022
No, English speakers and others using the Roman alphabet aren't going to have to start...
  • AP News
It’s Still Bangkok: Thailand Quells Talk of Name Change
Customers of the riverside Chaopraya Antique Café enjoy themselves despite the extraordinary high water levels in the Chao Phraya River in Nonthaburi, near Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. The flood-hit restaurant has become an unlikely dining hotspot after fun-loving foodies began flocking to its water-logged deck to eat amid the lapping tide. Now, instead of empty chairs and vacant tables the “Chaopraya Antique Café” is as full as ever, offering an experience the canny owner has re-branded as “hot-pot surfing.” (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Thai Riverside Restaurant Finds Silver Lining in Floods
  • 7 October 2021
A flood-hit riverside restaurant in Thailand has become an unlikely dining hotspot after fun-loving foodies...
  • AP News
Thai Riverside Restaurant Finds Silver Lining in Floods
Miniature gardens are planted on the rooftops of unused taxis parked in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Taxi fleets in Thailand are giving new meaning to the term “rooftop garden,” as they utilize the roofs of cabs idled by the coronavirus crisis to serve as small vegetable plots and raise awareness about the plight of out of work drivers. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Idled Thai Taxis Go Green with Mini-Gardens on Car Roofs
  • 16 September 2021
Taxi fleets in Thailand are giving new meaning to the term “rooftop garden,” as they...
  • AP News
Idled Thai Taxis Go Green with Mini-Gardens on Car Roofs
Thai dancers perform during a ceremony to return two stolen hand-carved sandstone lintels dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries to the Thai government Tuesday, May 25, 2021, in Los Angeles. The 1,500-pound (680-kilogram) antiquities had been stolen and exported from Thailand — a violation of Thai law — a half-century ago, authorities said, and donated to the city of San Francisco. They had been exhibited at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Religious Artifacts Returned to Thailand After Decades
  • 26 May 2021
Two stolen hand-carved religious artifacts, sandstone lintels dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries,...
  • AP News
Religious Artifacts Returned to Thailand After Decades
Actress Charged for Catching Giant Clams
  • 5 July 2019
Lee Yeol-eum caught the three giant shellfish in a Thai national marine park.
  • AP News
Actress Charged for Catching Giant Clams
Rescue Mission Saves All 12 Boys and Soccer Coach From Thai Cave
  • 10 July 2018
The "Wild Boars" soccer team had been trapped in the flooded cave for more than...
  • AP News
Rescue Mission Saves All 12 Boys and Soccer Coach From Thai Cave
Official: 4 More Boys Brought Out Of Flooded Thai Cave
  • 9 July 2018
Teams of divers brought out four of the boys but waited several hours before confirming...
  • AP News
Official: 4 More Boys Brought Out Of Flooded Thai Cave
Thais Fight Water and Oxygen Levels in Cave as Diver Dies
  • 6 July 2018
The rescuers trying to help a youth soccer team stranded in a Thai cave suffered...
  • AP News
Thais Fight Water and Oxygen Levels in Cave as Diver Dies
Is This ‘Beware of Billionaire’ Hunters Sign Real? An image was digitally created after a construction tycoon was arrested for hunting in a...
  • Fact Check
Is This ‘Beware of Billionaire’ Hunters Sign Real?
A misleading news story said that during the pre-dawn hours on Christmas Day, Delta Force operators launched a precision strike against an Obama-controlled stronghold in Thailand, says an active Secret Service agent who claims President Trump green lit the operation following a series of telephone calls to United States military commanders and to Thailand Prime Minister Nik Bukharin.
Did Delta Force Operators Raid an ‘Obama Stronghold’ in Thailand?
  • 2 January 2018
Reports of a Christmas Day raid originated with a conspiracy theory web site and are...
  • Fact Check
Did Delta Force Operators Raid an ‘Obama Stronghold’ in Thailand?
Warning Issued by Thailand About HIV in Canned Food?
  • 29 December 2016
Age-old rumors about viral contamination of food evolved into a claim that HIV is present...
  • Fact Check
Warning Issued by Thailand About HIV in Canned Food?
Fetuses Found in Chinese Restaurant Freezers?
  • 7 March 2016
An old urban legend about Chinese food made from aborted fetuses or unwanted babies resurfaced,...
  • Fact Check
Fetuses Found in Chinese Restaurant Freezers?
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