"accident"

She had apparently forgotten to lock the front door. Luckily one of the neighbours spotted the boy and pulled him away from passing traffic.

A 23-year-old man suffered severe injuries when he fell 6 metres down a hole in the road while riding his motorcycle in Bangkok on Wednesday night.

Thrills and spills in Khon Kaen

The clip of an SUV losing control and speeding into a parking lot outside a commercial building in Bangkok went viral on Saturday. The car nearly hit an elderly woman pushing her vending cart down the street. Here’s what happened:

According to the online forum entitled “Looking at the Chemical Factory Explosion in All Dimensions” organized by the Risk and Disaster Management Program (RDM) together with the Safety Center Occupational Health and Environment Chulalongkorn University (SHECU), we honorably invited academics and experts in various fields from the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Medicine, Environmental Research Institute of Chulalongkorn University and the Thai Network for Disaster Resilience (TNDR) to share knowledge and experiences in the relevant dimensions related to the explosion and fire at a plastic foam factory in Soi King Kaew 21, Bang Phli Yai Subdistrict, Bang Phli District, Samut Prakan Province.

A leak at a chemical plant in Texas late Tuesday killed two people, and injured dozens, in what local authorities are describing as a "mass casualty incident."

The fire that killed 51 employees of a food processing factory in Narayanganj was not a bolt from the blue for the owners who, according to police, knew such a disaster was imminent but chose to do nothing.

In what is seen as increasing instances of blazes in recent days, a fire was reported at Bangkoks Rajavithi Hospital on Saturday.

After mudflows moving at great speed devastated a residential area in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, the amount of remaining sludge and intermittent rainfall have impeded rescue efforts.

MOSCOW - Twenty-eight people were killed when a Soviet-era An-26 plane crashed in poor weather and low visibility in Russias Far Eastern region of Kamchatka Tuesday. There were no survivors.

The body of Korasit Roaphan, a 19-year-old volunteer firefighter who died battling a chemical blaze in Samut Prakan on Monday, was taken to Bangkok’s Wat Thung Khru for funeral rites on Tuesday.

Though firefighters managed to bring the blaze at Ming Dih Chemical factory under control after a 26-hour-long battle, they are continuing to monitor the area to ensure flames don’t erupt again.