| June 4, 2009 | -
Kung Fu star David Carradine, 72, was found dead in the closet of his Bangkok hotel room with a rope wrapped around his neck and genitals, the apparent victim of an autoerotic mishap. “I can confirm that we found his body, naked, hanging in the closet,” said officer Teerapop Luanseng.
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ABC News
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| December 29, 2008 | - Protesters in Thailand surrounded the parliament, delaying the new government's opening legislative session.
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New York Times
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| April 4, 2007 | -
Thailand blocked access to YouTube.
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New York Times
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| February 1, 2007 | - Elephants in Thailand were head-butting and robbing trucks.
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Reuters via iol.co.za
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| January 16, 2007 | - Zookeepers in Thailand put their male panda on a diet. “Chuang Chuang is gaining weight too fast,” said a zookeeper, “and we found Lin Hui is no longer comfortable with having sex with him.”
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AZcentral.com
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| November 22, 2006 | - 48 boxing orangutans retired to Indonesia from Thailand.
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BBC
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| October 9, 2006 | - Floods killed 37 people in Thailand, and Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed nine people.
| Source 1:
AFP via Yahoo! News
Source 2:
AP via CBS News
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| September 18, 2006 | - In Thailand, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin staged a coup d'etat, dismissing the prime minister and revoking the constitution. “Democracy has won!” said one coup supporter.
| Source:
Reuters and the Washington Post
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| August 20, 2006 | - In Thailand, a preoperative transsexual named John M. Karr claimed to have been present for JonBenet Ramsey's 1996 death, which he called “an accident.”
| Source:
The New York Times
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| June 14, 2006 | - In Thailand a man killed two soccer fans because he was annoyed by their cheering.
| Source:
USA Today
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| May 24, 2006 | - Flooding in Thailand killed more than 100 people.
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Irawaddy
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| May 14, 2006 | - Bird flu appeared to have been eradicated in Thailand and Vietnam.
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The New York Times
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
| Source 1:
Arab News
Source 2:
Al Jazeera
Source 3:
BBC News
Source 4:
Channel 4
Source 5:
ReviewJournal.com
Source 6:
CBC News
Source 7:
Al Jazeera
Source 8:
ABC News Online
Source 9:
Bloomberg News
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| November 9, 2005 | - In Thailand an official wedding ceremony was held between two pandas to encourage them to mate. “Start making children soon,” ordered Chinese Consul Peng Dong.
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IOL.co.za
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| August 24, 2005 | -
Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was trying to find out which member of his cabinet had received penis enlargement surgery; the member refused to expose himself.
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ABC News
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| May 31, 2005 | - Five Buddhist monks in Nong Khai, Thailand, were defrocked for brawling with other monks from a rival temple. “When an ordinary person is given a middle-finger sign he will be mad; so am I,” said monk Boonlert Boonpan.
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Reuters
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| May 26, 2005 | - The nine members of Thailand's anti-corruption commission were found guilty of corruption.
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Reuters
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| February 20, 2005 | - Scientists were waiting for H5N1, an avian flu virus that has killed forty-one people in Thailand and Vietnam, to mutate into a form that can spread more rapidly among humans. If that happens, the flu is expected to kill tens of millions worldwide. Thailand rejected a plan to slow the spread of the flu because the plan's execution—which called for the destruction of millions of possibly infected ducks and chickens and the distribution of face masks—would alarm the public.
| Source:
The Independent
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| February 18, 2005 | - A car bomb in Thailand killed five.
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BBC News
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| January 17, 2005 | -
Thai officials were planning to set up a webcam in a notorious Bangkok prison to broadcast prisoners' daily lives and the moments before their executions as a deterrent against drug crimes, but Amnesty International pointed out that most criminals are poor and without Internet access.
| Source:
BBC
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| December 26, 2004 | - A 9.0 magnitude earthquake created a tsunami that ravaged south and southeast Asia, as well as parts of Africa. The wave reached from Somalia and Kenya to Malaysia. Thousands of fatalities were reported in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, South India, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Three-story waves washed sunbathers into the sea, carried away snorkelers, and swallowed up Hindu ritual bathers celebrating Full Moon Day. A prison in Sumatra was torn open by the tsunami, and hundreds of inmates fled. A baby was washed from her father's arms. At least 25,000 died, and millions were displaced. Entire towns were turned into rubble. Corpses hung from trees and fences, and the rotting bodies of humans and animals threatened to pollute water supplies. It was difficult to bury the dead for lack of dry ground. The earthquake was the largest since 1964, and slightly altered the rotation of the earth.
| Source 1:
New York Timesimes
Source 2:
Wikipedia
Source 3:
New York Timesimes
Source 4:
MSNBC
Source 5:
Reuters
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| December 24, 2004 | - A bomb killed two and wounded eight outside a bank in Thailand.
| Source:
Al Jazeera
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| November 22, 2004 | -
Thailand was planning to drop origami birds on three restive provinces, and the prime minister called on each of the sixty-three million Thais to make at least one paper bird; television stations showed troops busily constructing flocks of doves, cranes, and pigeons.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| September 30, 2004 | -
Thai health officials confirmed that avian flu has probably begun to spread from person to person. Influenza experts were begging drug companies to begin manufacturing enough vaccine to prevent a pandemic but the companies were complaining that production is too expensive and that they will lose money if a pandemic does not occur. Patent issues were also cited.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 4, 2004 | -
Thai police put a stop to orangutan boxing matches at Safari World, a zoo near Bangkok.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 7, 2004 | - Avian flu reappeared in Thailand and China and Vietnam.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| April 28, 2004 | - Police killed more than 100 Muslim militants armed with machetes in southern Thailand.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 30, 2004 | - Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand made his 17-year-old daughter get a job at a McDonald's in Bangkok.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 28, 2004 | - Political violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 27, 2004 | - The government of Thailand was cracking down on nightlife.
| Source:
International Herald Tribune
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| February 16, 2004 | -
Bird flu continued to spread in Asia; some Thai fighting cocks were found to be infected, and a clouded leopard died of the disease in a zoo near Bangkok.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 7, 2004 | - Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of Thailand declared that Saturday was "Eat Chicken Day."
| Source:
BBC
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| January 26, 2004 | -
Indonesia said that millions of chickens had died of the flu in recent weeks, and workers in Thailand were bagging live chickens and burying them in pits.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 28, 2003 | - Two Thai and five Bulgarian soldiers and seven Iraqis were killed in four major coordinated car-bomb attacks by guerrillas in Karbala; 500 Bulgarians were evacuated from the area, because their base was destroyed.
| Source:
Washington Post, Reuters
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| December 10, 2003 | -
Elephants in Thailand were said to be hijacking
sugarcane shipments.
| Source:
Washington Times
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| November 11, 2003 | -
Thailand said that it will give amnesty to more than one million illegal foreign workers who perform dirty, dangerous jobs that Thais would rather not do.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 18, 2003 | -
Thai protesters captured the soul of George W. Bush, imprisoned it in a clay pot, and then drowned it in the Ping River.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| October 17, 2003 | - A Buddhist abbot in Thailand cured a sick woman with a magic wooden penis.
| Source:
Ananova
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| August 7, 2003 | -
Thailand announced that it will start using lethal injection to execute prisoners instead of shooting them with a machine gun while they hold a stick of incense and a lotus blossom.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| February 12, 2002 | - Monks in Thailand came up with 2,500 new surnames for people unsatisfied with the existing 702,059 names.
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| August 28, 2001 | - A Thai newspaper reported that amphetamines are being added to the drinking water at 24-hour arcades to keep people playing longer; a 22-year-old patron died recently from heart failure after an all-night computer-game binge.
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| August 7, 2001 | - Many people in Thailand were still drinking their own urine.
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| April 24, 2001 | - One hundred and sixty-four people died in 628 accidents during Thailand's annual water festival.
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| April 24, 2001 | - A Thai senator claimed to have found evidence of a cache of gold hidden by Japanese soldiers during World War II; troops were called in to look for the loot.
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| March 6, 2001 | - A bomb blew up a Thai Airways jet just before Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was to board it; the explosion, the cause of which was unknown, originated just below the seat assigned to Shinawatra.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Thailand's
election commission ordered revotes in 62 districts because of widespread cheating, though it confirmed the overall victory of the Thai Love Thai party, whose leader, the new prime minister, is under investigation for corruption.
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| January 2, 2001 | -
Thailand's chief anticorruption official, the leader of the Thai Love Thai party, was forced to resign after he was found to be corrupt.
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| October 24, 2000 | - Amnon Chemouil was convicted in a French court of raping an eleven-year-old girl in Thailand while on a “sex holiday.” Greenpeace claimed that it had caused two biotech companies to withdraw plans to patent embryos for a human-pig hybrid; both companies denied making “mixed species embryos,” though one did admit to introducing a human nucleus into a pig cell.
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| September 12, 2000 | - A Thai
researcher named Pikikhate Sooraksa unveiled “Roboguard,” a gunslinging remote-control robot guard.
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| September 5, 2000 | -
Scientists in Oxford, England, will begin testing an experimental AIDS vaccine on humans; another vaccine trial will begin in Thailand.
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