The 31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has unveiled a Special Program in Focus honoring the late Korean screen legend Ahn Sung-ki, while the festival’s market arm has named Thailand the first-ever recipient of a new top-tier country partnership. “Those Beautiful Years, Ahn Sung-ki” serves as the grand finale to the nationwide tributes paid to
After the massacre of children and teachers by a former police officer at a nursery in 2022, and then after a shooting by another 14-year-old boy at Bangkok’s most popular shopping mall in 2023, Anutin, then the interior minister, ordered similar measures. The discount scheme was also suspended back then, but almost immediately reinstated. The
A 50-year-old father and his two sons have been rescued after they were found adrift off the Thai island of Koh Samui, a local official told AFP on Saturday. They had spent more than 16 hours floating at sea after their jet ski capsized, local government official Amorn Chomchoey said. “We found the exhausted after
A French family was left stranded at sea for more than 16 hours overnight after their rented jet ski capsized off the coast of Thailand. A 50-year-old father and his young sons were left “pale” and “exhausted after swallowing a lot of seawater” before being rescued, local government official Amorn Chomchoey told AFP. All three
Thailand’s government will immediately stop issuing gun permits after a shooting incident last week in which a 14-year-old killed eight people and himself. Existing gun owners are already banned from carrying their weapons in public. The South East Asian country has one of the highest rates of civilian gun ownership in the region, with around
One 18-year-old student told Reuters he initially thought firecrackers were going off. “I didn’t think it was a gun at first,” he said. “There were many shots: bang bang bang. Then it went quiet. Then it started again.” Metres from the school gates, paramedics loaded the wounded into ambulances and rushed them to hospital, as
