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BANGKOK: Yingluck Shinawatra faces another session in the hot seat next week after failing to show up in person on Friday (January 16) to answer legislators questions about her governments failed rice-pledging programme.

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali was released from hospital on Friday (January 16) after receiving treatment for a severe urinary tract infection, a family spokesman said.

A 32-year-old Taiwanese man has died after a three-day gaming binge at an Internet cafe in the islands south, the second such case this year, a report said Saturday (January 17).

Latest Veteran investigative journalist Andrew Drummond says he is heading for Britain after 25 years because of threats made to his children.

Latest Slowly, Canadian Chris Channon has recovered from a nightmare attack on a Thai holiday island that left him close to dead by the edge of the lapping sea.

PHUKET: Local fishermen who had anchored their boat just off Yanui Beach came to the rescue on Wednesday (January 14) after seeing a small group on a dinghy struggling to stop an unmanned catarmaran straying out to sea.

The six police officers who allegedly shot at a fishing boat in the Andaman Sea last week finally turned themselves in today after a local police commander demanded they comply with the summons.

A new driver powered her car into a 7-Eleven store in Chiang Mai yesterday (January 16), providing some delightful CCTV footage for the internet.