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Farmer hacked to death and penis cut off by neighbour over property dispute
Niwat Chuiouam, 53, was riding to a temple to fetch leftover food for his pet dogs when he was allegedly attacked along a dirt road in Kamphaeng Phet province on August 8 evening.
Hero angler leaps into dam to save drowning teenager who was cooling off in water
Pongsathorn Liaothaisong, 30, was fishing with his father at a weir in Buriram province when he noticed the youngster, Song, 14, bobbing up and down in the water on August 4.
Italian tourist plunges to death near Bali waterfall while taking selfies with girlfriend
Giancarlo Zicari, 49, and his partner Ilaria Biagi, 25, were on their dream vacation taking photos at a viewing terrace near the Gajah Mas waterfalls on August 4.
Bus crashes into truck injuring 22 tourists in Thailand
The double decker had picked up passengers in Bangkok when it collided with a ten-wheeler truck while travelling along Highway 32 in Sing Buri province on August 12 afternoon.
Indian tourists have mass brawl with parasail operators in Thailand
The holidaymakers went parasailing at the Karon Beach in Phuket on August 12 but reportedly refused to pay the agreed fee of 2,000 THB (44 GBP) after they were done.
Irish tourist 'attacked taxi driver and traffic policeman' on drunken rampage in Thailand
The Irishman, identified by police with only his first name Paul, had hailed cabbie Jaemsaiwai Jaemsuwan, 43, to take him and an escort from red light district Soi Buakhao to a hotel but an argument started during the ride.
Thai soldiers seize heroin and meth 'trafficked by Burmese rebels to fund war effort'
The Pha Muang Task Force clashed with suspected drug traffickers in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province, near Thailand's northern border with Myanmar, on August 9.
Protesters dump sacks of rubbish at mayor's office over 'waste management emergency' in Indonesia
Members of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) arrived in three pickup trucks and unloaded sacks of household garbage next to Depok Mayor Mohammad Idris's office in West Java on August 11.
US Air Force F22 Raptor fighter jet flies in the Philippines for Iron Blade drill
Footage shows a Lockheed F-22 Raptor aircraft performing a fly-by and vertical climb manoeuvre at the General Benito Ebuen Air Base in Cebu province, the Philippines, on August 11.
Vietnamese and Filipino coast guards fire water cannon in maritime security exercises amid China threat
Footage shows personnel firing water cannons as they simulated a fire combat drill off Manila Bay in the Philippines on August 9.
Filipino soldiers launch rockets in training drill with US troops
Footage shows soldiers of the Philippine Army and US Army Pacific firing a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) during the ongoing SALAKNIB Exercise in Nueva Ecija province on August 9.
Chinese plane 'fires flares' at Philippines jet amid territorial tensions
Footage shows the Chinese aircraft launching several flares reportedly along the path of a PAF NC-212i plane on a routine maritime patrol over the disputed Scarborough Shoal on August 8.
British tourist, 61, punched in the head with car key and robbed by local in Phuket, Thailand
Robert Anderson, 62, from Alness, Inverness, was sitting in front of a store along Soi Bangla in Phuket when Kittipong Chantawong, 27, approached him around 8 am on August 9.
Three bombs target police accommodation in restive southern Thailand
The blasts ripped through a food stall, bin and parked pickup truck near the building in Pattani province at 1.20pm local time.
Dockyard explosion kills two and injures five others in Thailand
The blast devastated the facility in Ayutthaya shortly after 2:30pm local time. It was the same site as an explosion in 2016 that killed four and injured several others
'Drug-addled' Colombian man serenades police as they arrest him
Anthony Luis Castro, 36, had been blasting loud music from his room, prompting frustrated neighbours to call the cops on him on Koh Phangan island in Surat Thani province on August 9.
American live streamer who romped in hotel boasts how he 'paid police and military to escape five year jail term'
Paul Michael Joseph Denino, better known as 'Ice Poseidon', 29, was detained last June for jokingly giving his girlfriend a lap dance in a live video broadcasted from a privately-booked function room at the Banyan Tree Hotel in Bangkok.
Residential building collapses killing three and injuring one in China
CCTV footage shows an explosion ripping through the ground floor of the two-storey building in the Doumen district of Guangdong province, causing it to crumble to the ground on August 6.
Armed robbers ransack two adjacent jewellery stores in the Philippines
CCTV footage shows the helmeted men barging into Macy's Jewelry Store in Cebu City's Carbon Public Market, and ordering terrified customers and employees to lie down on the floor on August 8.
Bangkok airport staff train for active shooter
Footage shows people fleeing from the 'shooter' as the Hanuman SWAT Team swept into the Airport Rail Link Station to respond to the 'armed' individual during the Contingency and Emergency Exercise on August 9.
