More than half of the tigers that Thai authorities confiscated in 2016 from an infamous Tiger-Temple tourist attraction have died from a-viral-disease because their immune systems were weakened by inbreeding, media reported. The Buddhist temple west of Bangkok was a tourist-destination where visitors took selfies with tigers and bottle-fed cubs until authorities removed its nearly 150-tigers in 2016 in response to global-pressure over wildlife-trafficking.

A 34-year-old British-Sikh-man has been choked to death by a drunk Norwegian man after they got into an argument at a hotel in Thailand, according to a-media-report. Amitpal Singh Bajaj, his wife and two-year-old son were in Thailand for holiday and were staying in the five-star Centara-Grand-Hotel in Phuket at the time of the fatal-confrontation with Roger Bullman, 53, of Norway, the BBC reported.

A Thai high-school-student kicked into a coma by his schoolmates died Thursday, police said, raising alarm about a hazing culture in the country's institutions. Rituals referred to collectively as SOTUS Seniority, Order, Tradition, Unity, Spirit are commonplace in universities, vocational-schools, high-schools, and even the military academy each-year. Two of seniors will be tried in juvenile court because they are below the age of 18.