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  • Woman sues spicy Thai food restaurant over too-spicy, ‘unfit for human consumption’ dish

    07/20/2023 8:33:58 AM PDT · by DFG · 83 replies
    NY Post ^ | 07/20/2023 | Olivia Land
    If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the spicy Thai food restaurant. A woman is suing a San Jose, Calif.-area restaurant and its employees for negligence and emotional distress, claiming that one of the eatery’s mega-spicy dishes was “unfit for human consumption” and left her with health issues that lingered two years after she ate it. The complaint filed at the Superior Court of Santa Clara County on July 3 alleges that the diner, Harjasleen Walia, suffered “permanent bodily injuries” after trying the Dragon Balls appetizer at Coup de Thai in Los Gatos on July 15, 2021, according...
  • Captain of 2018 Thai soccer team rescued from cave dies in UK

    02/15/2023 8:45:08 AM PST · by shadowlands1960 · 24 replies
    New York Post ^ | February 15th, 2023 | Olivia Land
    The captain of the boys’ soccer team that was dramatically rescued after being trapped in a flooded Thai cave for two weeks in 2018 has died. He was 18. Duangpetch Promthep was found unconscious in his dorm in Leicestershire, UK, on Sunday, and died at the hospital on Tuesday, the BBC reported. The cause of death has not been confirmed but it is not being treated as suspicious. The talented player’s passing comes just months after he arrived at Brooke House College Football Academy, where he received a scholarship last summer. “Today my dream has come true,” he wrote on...
  • Thai police arrest cult leader who wanted followers to eat his excreta

    05/10/2022 7:49:52 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 27 replies
    WION ^ | May 10, 2022, | Rustam Roy
    Police in Thailand have arrested a man who allegedly told his followers to eat his bodily fluids and worship corpses. The man named Thawee Nanra, 75, was reportedly living in a jungle in Thailand's Chaiyaphum province. The man's campsite located deep inside the forest raided by police. Reports said at least eleven corpses were found including coffins containing bodies with at least a dozen followers who were reportedly living with Nanra.
  • Thai Actor Beam Papangkorn Lerkchaleampote Dies Suddenly in Sleep at 25

    03/25/2022 2:32:33 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 45 replies
    The Straits Times ^ | 3/25 | Lim Ruey Yan
    Thai actor Papangkorn Lerkchaleampote, better known as Beam, died suddenly in his sleep on Wednesday (March 23). He was 25. According to Thai media, he was found motionless in his bed by his mother, who realised he was not breathing when she tried to wake him up. He was sent to hospital and pronounced dead after attempts to revive him failed. According to the Bangkok Post, the Thai police found no signs of struggle in his room and no evidence of foul play. Preliminary investigations showed that Beam had played football on Tuesday night and eaten at a food stall...
  • MEDIA“The Rescue” – What really happened inside Tham Luang caves?

    01/27/2022 11:08:21 AM PST · by Brookhaven · 23 replies
    Thaiger ^ | 10-9-21 | Tim Newton
    We all followed the events of the cave rescue. We think we know what happened. But we don’t. “The Rescue”, by directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, has peered behind the heroic narrative that was cultivated at the time of the Chiang Rai Tham Luang cave rescue in July 2018. 13 young men – 12 teenagers and their 24 year old soccer coach – rode their bikes to the Tham Luang Caves in Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand, for a quick excursion following training of the Mu Pa (wild boars) team. It was Saturday, June 23, 2018. Following torrential monsoonal...
  • Thai herbal medicine does not cure Covid-19, drug company says

    05/17/2021 12:13:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 3 replies
    AFP ^ | Tuesday 11 May 2021
    As Thailand faced a surge in coronavirus cases, a message circulated on Facebook that claimed a Thai herbal drink can cure Covid-19. The claim is false: the pharmaceutical company that developed the herbal drink said it “does not have any effects on the coronavirus”. Health experts said there was no evidence the purported medicine can treat people infected with Covid-19. SNIP “I received an audio clip of a conversation between policemen from the Phasi Charoen Police Station who was infected with Covid-19. He spoke about how he took and drank green medicine, along with other Thai herbs while waiting for...
  • Thai protesters move to Bangkok suburbs

    11/28/2020 7:40:31 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 5 replies
    Reuters ^ | Nov 28, 2020
    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai anti-government protesters demonstrated in Bangkok’s outskirts on Saturday with a duck parade and speeches demanding the removal of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a new constitution and reforms to the monarchy. Protests have been stepped up this week despite threats by Prayuth, a former junta ruler, to use all available laws against protesters who break them and charges of insulting the monarchy against several protest leaders. Protesters are seeking the removal of Prayuth, accusing him of engineering an election last year to keep power that he seized from an elected government in a 2014 coup. He has...
  • Joe Montana grandchild kidnapping: Female abductor identified as Thai woman

    09/28/2020 4:42:54 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 22 replies
    Scallywag and Vagabond ^ | 09 28 2020 | Christopher Koulouris
    Sodsai Dalzell Los Angeles based Thai woman accused of kidnapping Joe Montana grandchild at Malibu residence. No known motive. NFL quarterback legend Joe Montana, 64, and his wife have been lauded after intervening during an alleged attempted kidnapping of their 9-month-old grandchild at their home in Malibu, California, Saturday night according to reports. Known for winning four Super Bowl titles and two MVP awards with the San Francisco 49ers, ‘Joe Cool’, found himself confronting the alleged kidnapper, since identified as 39 year old woman, Sodsai P. Dalzell. Montana and his wife, Jennifer, were in their Malibu home when Dalzell entered...
  • Thai rescue diver dies from infection contracted while saving soccer team from flooded cave

    12/28/2019 5:26:25 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 20 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 12/28/2019 | Katie Mettler
    Petty Officer 1st Class Beirut Pakbara was receiving treatment for the infection, but his condition worsened when it spread to his bloodstream, according to a Facebook post from the Royal Thai Navy. He died this week and was buried Friday at the Talosai mosque in the Langu district of the Satun province, reported the Bangkok Post. A Royal Thai Navy spokesman told the Bangkok Post that Beirut will be posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Beirut is the second diver to lose his life as a result of the cave rescue. Saman Kunam, a retired Thai navy diver, died...
  • Thai cave boys leave monastery after novice monkhood

    08/04/2018 8:20:58 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 7 replies
    BBC ^ | 4 Aug 2018
    Eleven of the Wild Boars youth football team were ordained novices in memory of a diver who died during their rescue. Their 25-year-old coach, who has received monk's orders, will stay on for three months. One of the boys did not participate as he is a Christian
  • Thai cave rescue: All 12 boys, soccer coach freed from cave

    07/10/2018 8:24:17 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 22 replies
    cnn ^ | 11:20 AM ET, Tue July 10, 2018
    The twelfth boy and his coach were the last of the team to be rescued Tuesday, after a complicated three-day operation to extricate the team, who became trapped on June 23 when rising flood water cut off the exit, deep inside the cave. In the last 18 days, what began as a local search for the missing 13 turned into a complex rescue operation, involving hundreds of experts who flew in from around the world to help.
  • Thailand cave rescue: ninth boy rescued as mission to free others continues – live

    07/10/2018 2:45:43 AM PDT · by PghBaldy · 53 replies
    The Guardian ^ | July 10 | Matthew Weaver
    Reuters has a little more detail: A tenth person was rescued on Tuesday from a flooded Thai cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped for more than two weeks, raising hopes all 13 would be out by the end of the day.
  • Today is D-Day. At 10 a.m. today (0300 GMT) 13 foreign divers went in to extract the children

    07/08/2018 8:38:48 AM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 22 replies
    AltHouse Blog ^ | July 8, 2018 | none stated
    The rescue mission began after rain showers soaked the Tham Luang Cave area in northern Chiang Rai province for the past 24 hours, heightening the risks in what the governor has called a “war with water and time” to save the team.... Weather.com forecast sustained thunderstorms lasting through Sunday and Monday, with further stormy weather expected for around the next two weeks.... To escape, the children must dive through dark, narrow passageways sometimes no more than two-feet wide, that have challenged some of the world’s leading cave divers. A former member of Thailand’s SEAL unit died during a dive on...
  • Thailand cave rescue: officials evacuate site for 'rescue operation' – live

    07/07/2018 6:23:33 PM PDT · by PghBaldy · 189 replies
    The Guardian ^ | July 7 | Kate Lyons
    Jacob Goldberg, who is still inside the cave rescue site, has this footage of divers arriving at the cave site, to be mobbed by reporters. Reporters and all those not directly involved in the rescue operation have been banned from entering the site, and those already inside have been give until 9am to clear out.
  • Former Thai navy SEAL working to rescue soccer team trapped in a cave has died

    07/06/2018 6:42:23 AM PDT · by SES1066 · 25 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 07/06/18 | Tara Francis Chan
    A former Thai Navy SEAL died early Friday while placing oxygen tanks in the cave where a Thai soccer team has been stuck for nearly two weeks. ... The volunteer diver, who has been identified as 38-year-old Saman Kunan, died from a lack of oxygen early around 1 a.m. on Friday morning. ... More than 100 Thai Navy SEALS are working on the rescue mission as well as divers from Australia, the US, UK, China, and other countries.
  • Thailand cave search: Divers close in on missing soccer team

    07/01/2018 8:42:26 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 59 replies
    CNN ^ | 07/01/2018 | Yuli Yang, Kocha Olarn and Sheena McKenzie,
    China and Australia have joined the search for 12 boys missing in a Thai cave, as divers on Sunday closed in on the spot where they believe the teens are sheltering. The international rescue operation -- which includes over 1,000 people from Thai emergency services, the US Military and British cave experts -- has been ramping up its efforts since the boys and their 25-year-old soccer coach disappeared during an outing in the caves in northern Thailand eight days ago. Divers are now closing in on the spot where they believe the missing boys are sheltering in the Tham Luang...
  • Thailand - Nation in mourning

    10/13/2016 10:07:47 AM PDT · by LeoWindhorse · 16 replies
    Bangkok Post ^ | Oct. 13 , 2016 | Bangkok Post
    Nation in mourning
  • Thailand blasts target Phuket and Hua Hin tourist spots

    08/11/2016 9:07:13 PM PDT · by Lonely Bull · 30 replies
    BBC News ^ | 12 August 2016
    A series of blasts across Thailand targeted the tourist towns of Hua Hin, Phuket and other locations, leaving at least three dead and many injured. They came hours after twin bombs killed one person in the seaside resort town of Hua Hin, near the capital Bangkok. On Friday, the town was hit again by multiple blasts. Two explosions were also reported in the popular tourist destination of Phuket.
  • Thai activists charged over 'military torture' report

    07/26/2016 11:36:10 AM PDT · by LeoWindhorse · 1 replies
    BBC World News ^ | 7-26-20116 | BBC
    Three Thai human rights activists have been charged with criminal defamation over a report alleging torture by soldiers in southern Thailand. Allegations of military abuses in the south, home to a longstanding Muslim insurgency are nothing new. But there has been a sharp increase in the use of criminal defamation laws against government critics in recent years, BBC correspondent Jonathan Head says. Rights groups condemned the charges. The trio face up to two years in prison if found guilty of defaming the military, and a further three years if they are found to have violated the country's computer crimes act.
  • How to learn 30 languages

    05/31/2015 8:01:33 PM PDT · by Cronos · 88 replies
    BBC ^ | 29 May 2015 | David Robson
    Out on a sunny Berlin balcony, Tim Keeley and Daniel Krasa are firing words like bullets at each other. First German, then Hindi, Nepali, Polish, Croatian, Mandarin and Thai – they’ve barely spoken one language before the conversation seamlessly melds into another. Together, they pass through about 20 different languages or so in total. It can be difficult enough to learn one foreign tongue. Yet I’m here in Berlin for the Polyglot Gathering, a meeting of 350 or so people who speak multiple languages – some as diverse as Manx, Klingon and Saami, the language of reindeer herders in Scandinavia....