Geography of Thailand

The Thai government extended the temporary visa fees to the country by the end of April 2019. The new deadline applies to tourists from 20 countries, including Bulgaria. 

The mission to free 12 boys and their football coach from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave site in northern Thailand is underway.

Thirteen foreign divers and five Thai Navy SEALs entered the cave at 10:00am (1:00pm AEST) on Sunday as dark monsoon rainclouds loomed over the mountains.

Smokers who violate the smoking ban on 20 of Thailand's most popular tourist beaches will be fined USD 3,000 or will be imprisoned for up to one year, reports bgnes. 

The ban, which comes into force in November, follows the cleaning of nearly 140,000 cigarette buds from an area of 2.5 kilometers from the famous Patong Beach on Phuket Island.

The fingerprints of a foreign man arrested over last month's deadly Bangkok blast match those found on bomb-making equipment discovered at a flat over the weekend, Thai police said Sept. 2.

Thai authorities on Aug. 29 detained and charged a 28-year-old man suspected to be of Turkish nationality over a bomb attack in Bangkok that killed 20 people, while Turkish authorities made formal requests to receive information on the suspect's identity. 

Thai monks led prayers Aug. 19 at a ceremony to reopen a Bangkok shrine hit by a deadly bombing, as police hunted a man seen calmly planting a backpack before the explosion that killed 20 people.

At least twelve people died and dozens were injured as a bomb exploded in central Bangkok on Monday.

The bomb exploded close to the famous Erawan Shrine located in the central Chidlom district of Thailand's capital, the BBC reports.

The explosion occurred on the Ratchaprasong intersection, which has been the site of political demonstrations in recent years.