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American tourist attacks Chinese woman 'who bumped into him' in shopping mall in Thailand

The holidaymaker and his Thai wife were walking in front of a Hermes store when Zhang Yise and her family reportedly slammed into them at the Central Phuket Floresta mall in Phuket, Thailand, on August 19.

Python regurgitates whole chicken it caught on farm

Footage shows the 14ft beast spitting out the dead rooster that it pounced on and killed in Sa Kaeo province, Thailand, on August 21.

Roads flooded as heavy rain batters northern Thailand

Footage shows cars negotiating the waterlogged Highway 224 after a monsoon storm struck Nakhon Ratchasima province on August 21.

Flash floods swamp hundreds of homes in northern Thailand

Footage shows the deluge submerging streets in Phayao province early morning on August 21.

Dozens of pupils stranded in school amid heavy floods in northern Thailand

Video shows brown floodwater raging across the pavement near the Wiangkaen Wittayakhom School in Chiang Rai province on August 21.

Rescuers save locals washed away by flash flood in northern Thailand

The pair had tried to cross a waterlogged road across a river but were swept away by raging waters in Nan province on August 21.

Resort house collapses amid heavy flood in Thailand

Video shows the holiday lodging being wiped out as the torrent eroded its foundation in Nan province on August 21.

Drunk Welsh tourist 'attacks German and Thai girlfriend' in Pattaya bar

The Welshman, named in local reports as 'Mike', 44, had been drinking shots on the notorious Soi 6 road before allegedly punched German national Ralph Peter Mallon, 60, in the head at a nightclub on August 20.

Thai ladyboys hit Arab tourists with their shoes in comical scenes

Footage shows the feisty transgender men in skimpy dresses and high heels squaring off against Middle Eastern holidaymakers in Phuket, Thailand, on August 21.

Police rescue tourist 'trapped in cave for four days' in Thailand

Ekkachai, 47, trekked into the Wang Srithammasokkraj Water Cave to admire the beautiful stalactites and stalagmites in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Thailand on August 14.

Grandmother, 54, eaten alive by crocodile while washing pots in river in Indonesia

Halima Rahakbauw, 54, was cleaning plates after eating freshly caught clams for lunch when she was attacked by the 14ft leviathan lurking in the Wali River in Maluku, Indonesia, on August 20.

Helicopter joins search for three school children missing after boat capsizes in Malaysia

Helena Fasha Petrus, 17, Alsma Jithil, 14, and Vilkie Wilson, 15, were riding the allegedly overloaded ferry to school when it overturned in the middle of the Sungai Kayan river in Sarawak state, Malaysia, on August 20.

Huge python bites husband's TESTICLES when he sits on toilet

The hungry reptile was hiding in the U-bend when local Thanat Thangtewanon, 35, sat on the loo at his home in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 20.

Window cleaner falls from 31st floor of hotel when scaffolding collapses

Thanu Chanprasert, 34, was wiping the windows of a high-rise in Bangkok's Soi Sukhumvit 24 area when the ropes of his suspended scaffolding snapped and sent him free falling on August 17.

Bungling thief falls into building gap while fleeing from police

The suspect, believed to be in his 40s, had reportedly broken into the former Krungthai Bank in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, on August 19 morning.

Massive 16ft python caught in terrified driver's pickup truck

Niphon Wongsa, 53, drove his green Isuzu pickup truck to the local volunteers' office when he spotted the reptile slithering inside the vehicle's engine in Samut Songkhram province on August 19.

Locals rescue injured baby dugong from beach in Thailand

The Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center (Lower Andaman Sea) saved the marine creature after a tourist discovered it lying on the shores of Koh Poda island in Krabi province on August 10.

Jealous boyfriend stabs girlfriend to death in front of horrified tourists on Thai island

Chokchai Intarak, 23, was furious when he saw pictures of Rinrada Sukjit, 23, with another man and stormed over to the shopping mall where she was working on the island of Koh Samui.

Tapir previously thought to be extinct emerges in Thai forest

Footage shows a rare Malayan tapir roaming in the undergrowth at the Khao Sok National Park in Surat Thani province on August 18.

Tourist from Hong Kong caught with 14kg of cocaine at Bangkok airport

The suspects, believed to be sourcing drugs from the north of the country, reportedly entered the country on August 11, and stayed separately in different hotels in the Huai Khwang and Ramkhamhaeng areas of Bangkok.
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