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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.
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.
Two dead and two injured when Thai actor crashes jet ski into motorboat
Passenger Parichat Hoiman, 44, and boat driver Prayoon Uampathum, 64, were crossing the Chao Phraya River when a speeding jetski struck their vessel in Phra Pradaeng district of Samut Prakan province on August 17 evening.
Thousands of litres of oil collected from sunken tanker in the Philippines
The PCG said on August 19 that they have collected around 2,500 litres of fuel from the MT Terranova that capsized off Bataan province in July.
Police raid house 'used as illegal online gambling office' in Thailand
A team led by Police Colonel Arnanchak Kanoknoppawat, superintendent of the Bandu Police Station, swept into the two-storey townhouse said to be the base of an online casino website in Chiang Rai province on August 16.
