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Aug 30, 2026
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5 min read
PM2.5 hit 630. The fire keeps reigniting. Avoid the Khlong Thom area. Plus Bloomberg covered Bangkok's first housing-first homeless shelter — and the man rebuilding his life inside it.
Aug 29, 2026
The airport reversed course after backlash. Plus Time Out put Bangkok ahead of Berlin, New York and Melbourne.
Aug 28, 2026
Three lanes close on August 31, leaving just two until April 2027. Plus a 16-year-old was allegedly selling modified guns from a Bangkok condo to a 300-member online group.
Aug 27, 2026
Lab tests found methamphetamine and an anesthetic linked to sudden death. The pods look normal. They taste normal. Plus a 47-year-old breakdancing in traffic just hit 10 million views.
Aug 26, 2026
6 min read
Four men were taking a Chinese tourist to the Myanmar border after allegedly abducting and beating her. She escaped at a checkpoint. Plus Parliament is back with ฿400 billion on the table.
Aug 25, 2026
Six royal pardons, good-behavior credits and age provisions turned a life sentence into less than a decade. Plus a ฿10 coin that just sold for ฿2.5 million in 10 minutes.
Aug 24, 2026
A woman's complaint blew open a registration fraud that's now being investigated nationally. Plus 25 security incidents in Thailand's deep south and a curfew in Narathiwat.
Aug 23, 2026
51% Thai ownership or nothing. SpaceX won't budge, while Vietnam already said yes. Plus 17 people stung by giant honey bees in Pattaya.
Aug 22, 2026
Restaurants, nightlife and luxury shopping — all paid for with stolen money. Plus a car-free bridge linking Songwat and Khlong San across the Chao Phraya by 2030.
Aug 21, 2026
Your Thai colleagues just got free access to 30+ premium AI models. Meanwhile, a Bangkok teenager built a platform around the skills no algorithm can replace.
Aug 20, 2026
฿50 pad thai, 1 Gbps fiber, a 5-year visa and a ฿300 massage. The ranking confirms what you already know. Plus the enforcement just expanded to leases.
Aug 19, 2026
The anti-corruption commission says identity fraud threatens national security. But what else could a system like this do once it exists? Plus the biggest investment number of the year.
Aug 18, 2026
One global index put it at the top for quality of life, but a critical environmental ranking tells a different story. Plus: how a state-run AI contest gave a protected sea creature legs
Aug 17, 2026
Deva Manor closes around August 31 after 18 years. Plus a 16-officer moo krata sting, a deputy chief disguised as a teenager, and four seized motorcycles.
Aug 16, 2026
BTS, MRT and Airport Rail Link could finally work under one fare from January 1. Plus a 6-year-old wrote Moo Deng a letter—and the hippo signed back with her tail.
Aug 15, 2026
A newly increased mandatory entry fee is officially back on the table. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister just piloted his own plane into an Air Force base under active F-16 fighter jet escort to issue five major military priorities.
Aug 14, 2026
His hands shake as he serves each bowl. Their son died, but he keeps working to care for his bedridden wife. Then Thailand showed up. Plus a foreign man's one-man crime spree across Bangkok.
Aug 13, 2026
฿3.89 per unit, with the first 200 units at ฿3. The new rates start in September. Plus the footage that has Bangkok asking what happened.
Aug 12, 2026
British, Chinese, Italian, French, Dutch, Austrian, Filipino and American nationals. Properties worth ฿10–20M. Plus the Mother's Day tradition behind Thailand's jasmine flowers.
Aug 11, 2026
Two dead in a Nonthaburi government building over a personal debt. The PM says political status won't protect anyone. Plus the ฿60 food court most travelers miss.
Aug 10, 2026
Ho Chi Minh City took #1. Bangkok residents are not going to agree. Plus Thailand just cut its Chinese tourist forecast by 2 million.
Aug 9, 2026
Tomorrow's forecast reaches AQI 138–159 despite the rainy season. Here's why and what you can do. Plus Thailand's 10.3M civilian firearms.
Aug 8, 2026
Myanmar's military leader received an official welcome. One protesting MP was escorted out. Plus 2,353 rai of Bangkok's waterfront could be transformed.
Aug 7, 2026
A 24-year-old footballer was killed and 12 others were injured. Plus Bangkok's second hawker centre is coming to Pathumwan.
Aug 6, 2026
4 min read
The Foreign Minister said the ambassador should "explain, not defend." Plus the latest twist in the Aem Cyanide case.
