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B50,000 bounty on person who beheaded dugong
The Ministry for Natural Resources and Environment has offered a 50,000 baht reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who beheaded the dugong found dead on a beach in Phangnga province.

US-Iran talks fail to find deal but Gulf truce holds for now
TEHRAN - Iran and the United States failed to strike a deal Sunday to end the war in the Middle East, but there was no immediate return to hostilities and the region clung to hope that a fragile truce would hold.

Phuket dump still burning, garbage deliveries halted
PHUKET – Firefighters were still battling persistent flare-ups at the Phuket City municipal landfill on Sunday, more than 24 hours after the blaze erupted.

Ukraine, Russia trade mass Easter truce breach barbs
KYIV (UKRAINE) - Ukraine and Russia accused each other on Sunday of violating a truce in place for Orthodox Easter thousands of times, as the war dragged on into its fifth year.

GOHAN: One stray dog, three stray people
With the same producer as How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024), GOHAN (2026) is proof that these people know how to make a tear jerking film with a universally heart touching topic about a family member. This time, in GOHAN, instead of an abandoned grandma, it's about an abandoned dog (and three abandoned humans.)

Revellers forgo water, discharge fire extinguisher in Walking Street
PATTAYA - Two foreigners discharged a fire extinguisher, instead of just splashing water, during Songkran celebrations in the middle of Walking Street, allegedly causing damage and creating a public disturbance, in the early hours of Sunday.

Rak Chart Party asks Unesco for stricter heritage scrutiny
The Rak Chart Party has delivered a letter to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) headquarters in Paris calling for greater rigor in the organisation’s World Heritage registration process, to prevent what it described as the distortion or misappropriation of cultural origins.

Hungarians vote in closely watched election with Orban's rule on line
BUDAPEST - Hungarians began voting on Sunday in closely watched parliamentary elections that could end nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban's 16-year stint in power as a self-described "thorn" in the EU's side.

Songkran road toll at 71 after two days
Seventy-one people were killed and 317 others injured in traffic accidents during the first two days of the Songkran festival holiday period. 

Six boats caught smuggling goods to Cambodia
TRAT - Six men were arrested off the coast of this eastern province trying to smuggle food and other consumer goods to Cambodia in six open, coastal boats on Saturday night.