"Tham Luang"

On June 23, four years ago, 12 school footballers, then aged 11 to 16, entered the Tham Luang Khun Nam Nang Non Cave in Chiang Rai with their 25-year-old assistant coach and were trapped inside, leading to an over two-week-long intense rescue operation, which included international divers.

A Thai Navy Seal, who took part in the dramatic rescue of the Wild Boar footballers from a flooded cave in northern Thailand last year, succumbed to a lung infection he contracted during the mission, a senior Navy official said on Friday (December 27).

Tom Waller, the Thai-born director of “Mindfulness and Murder” and “The Last Executioner”, is bringing his most anticipated Thailand-based project to date to cinemas on November 28 – his retelling of the dramatic rescue of a youth football team from a Chiang Rai cave.

The National Cave Management Policy Committee has set three guidelines for creating awareness, participation and supporting operations for the benefit of natural resources, maintenance, conservation, rehabilitation and development into tourist attractions in the future.

The Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai province, the scene of a much-publicised international rescue mission last July, will close to all visitors from February 19 in order to allow Thai Navy SEALs to enter and recover equipment left inside.

The first photos of the conditions and various rescue items left inside Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai province, where the young Mu Pa team footballers and their coach were trapped in June last year, were released on Friday.

A Thai-born director who took just weeks to shoot the first film about the dramatic cave rescue of the "Wild Boars" football team says his focus is on authenticity and the mission's "unsung" heroes, with book publishers and Hollywood studios jostling to make their versions of the saga.

THE AUTHORITIES have started an initial survey of the Tham Luang Nang Non caves in Chiang Rai province, made famous by the headline-grabbing rescue of a team of young footballers in July.

The search at the Tham Luang Nang Non caves in Chiang Rai Province for rescue equipment from the widely publicised football team rescue in July last year has begun.

Tom Waller, a Thai filmmaker with Irish heritage, has started filming a movie featuring the multinational operation to rescue the “Mu Pa” football team and their deputy coach from the flooded Tham Luang cave in July.

His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun of Thailand recently sent a letter to President Bounnhang Vorachit to thank the Lao people for their participation in the rescue effort to retrieve 13 young footballers from the cave they were trapped in.