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Allied partners arrive at Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2024
Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 27 to August 1.
Police raid illegal casino hidden under shopping mall where 'world's saddest gorilla' lives
Officers converged on the building of the Pata Department Store - home to the world's saddest gorilla Bua Noi - in Bangkok and found an unauthorised gambling den on July 2.
Crane collapses killing two workers in Bangkok
The tower crane was carrying out construction of a waste disposal centre in the city's Soi Onnut 86 area when its base fell over on July 2.
Elon Musk X intern, 21, drowns on holiday in southern Thailand
Christopher Fang, 21, from Vancouver, Canada, sparked panic when he went for a morning swim but failed to return to his hotel on Natai Beach in Phang Nga province on June 30.
This unique Thai market outside train station is open only for five minutes
Footage shows the sellers bringing fruits, vegetables, spices, and other delicacies onto the platform as the locomotive stopped at the Buriram Railway Station in Thailand on June 29.
Scales of justice! Police find python instead of drugs inside suspicious package
Police Corporal Thanapol Samerjai of Samrong Tai Police Station and Police Lance Corporal Worapan Thapthong were patrolling the streets of Soi Wat Mahawong in Samut Prakan province when they spotted a 'suspicious' motorcycle rider on June 27 evening.
Vendors collect food as it arrives in Bangkok from rural villages
Footage shows grocers swarming the Makkasan Railway Station to retrieve the plastic bags full of vegetables and fruits from farmers in the rural northeast of the country.
Shocked villagers find hundreds of women's underwear hanging on clothesline in Thai forest
Residents were alerted to the bizarre sexual shrine after a local, Banlay Sukkrathok, 49, recorded the creepy scene on the outskirts of a village in Nakhon Ratchasima province on July 1.
Suspected thief climbs onto house roof to try and escape police raid
Attachai, 32, reportedly snatched a 60 gram 21ct gold necklace from a pedestrian in front of a school in Khon Kaen province on June 30.
China Coast Guard 'blocks Philippine Coast Guard ship rescuing injured fishermen' in South China Sea
Footage shows two Chinese-manned rigid hull inflatable boats (RHIB) surrounding the sinking fishing boat in the contested Ayungin Shoal area on June 29.
Car bomb hits police station in southern Thailand
The alleged terrorists parked a blue Toyota pickup rigged with a gas cylinder, steel rods, and 80 kilos of explosives, in front of a police dorm in Yala province on June 30.
Korean submarine arrives in Hawaii for joint navy exercises
Footage shows the Korea-flagged vessel arriving at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on June 21.
Police carry out show raids on Thai red light strip
Dozens of cops scoured strips clubs in the Thai 'Sin City' on orders from Chonburi Governor Thawatchai Srithong on June 28.
'Kidults' buying cartoon toys boost economy in Thailand
The country's toy business, which was hamstrung by the Covid-19 pandemic, recently saw a spike thanks to the cartoon-style art toys trend gaining popularity this year.
Wacky tribal sports day among mountain people in the Philippines
The seven different clans converged on the field for the Kaamulan gathering in Bukidnon Province in the south of the country.
Filipino teenagers imitate monkeys at tribal festival to help them grow into men
The annual parade sees hundreds of youngsters from different tribes gather in Mindanao, in the southern Philippines.
Filipino tribesman shows off musical skills including playing bamboo flute with his nose
The man is from the indigenous Lumad people of Bukidnon province in the southern Philippines learned the skills while performing at rituals in the remote region.
Filipino medicine man steals KNEE CAPS from dead people for ‘spiritual protection’
Angelito Oreta trawls the public cemeteries around his home in Muntinlupa, on the outskirts of Manila, the Philippines, to plunder the freshly-dug graves. Rather than stealing valuables, Angelito and his devotees ‘knee-cap' the stiff corpses and use scalpels to extract the patellas.
An artist paints stunning pictures entirely with mud.
She mixes together different types of earth from the mountains in the province of Bukidnon.
A woman undergoes an exorcism with a medicine man in the Philippines
Black magic conjurer Angelito Oreta performed the bizarre ceremony on the troubled woman at his home in Muntinlupa, on the outskirts of Manila.
