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Article thumbnail: This handout photo taken and released late on July 16, 2024 by the Royal Thai Police shows drinks left in the hotel rooms where six bodies were found dead at a hotel in Bangkok, allegedly due to poisoning. Six foreign nationals were found dead in a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok on July 16, Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said, with police suspecting they were poisoned. (Photo by Handout / Royal Thai Police / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / ROYAL THAI POLICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/Royal Thai Police/AFP via Getty Images)
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Six people found dead in Bangkok hotel drank cyanide from teacups, police say

Police suspect debt was the driving motive behind the incident 

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Six people found dead in suspected poisoning at upmarket Bangkok hotel

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I'm struggling on a frozen UK pension in Thailand, but I'm too sick to leave

Article thumbnail: The interior of Singapore Airline flight SG321 is pictured after an emergency landing at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Thailand, May 21, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer
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Taking our six-month-old baby travelling in Asia restored our relationship

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I'm on a frozen pension in Thailand - so I'm abandoning my lifelong Tory support

Article thumbnail: Anthony and May Peters live in Thailand (Photo: Anthony Peters)
Article thumbnail: Anthony and May Peters live in Thailand (Photo: Anthony Peters)
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Article thumbnail: John Jones with his wife, Pin Bunpah, and their son, Leo, in Thailand
Article thumbnail: John Jones with his wife, Pin Bunpah, and their son, Leo, in Thailand
Article thumbnail: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj sits in a waiting police van after a court hearing in Kathmandu on August 18, 2008. Known as the "Bikini Killer," Sobhraj was convicted four years ago in Kathmandu for the 1975 murder of Connie Joe Bronzich, who was repeatedly stabbed and her body burnt in 1975, and was sentenced to 20 years in jail. His case is still pending in the Supreme Court. Sobhraj, the son of an Indian tailor and Vietnamese shop girl, spent several years in India in the 70s where he was convicted and jailed for 20 years for manslaughter and robbery in New Delhi's Ashoka Hotel. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj sits in a waiting police van after a court hearing in Kathmandu on August 18, 2008. Known as the "Bikini Killer," Sobhraj was convicted four years ago in Kathmandu for the 1975 murder of Connie Joe Bronzich, who was repeatedly stabbed and her body burnt in 1975, and was sentenced to 20 years in jail. His case is still pending in the Supreme Court. Sobhraj, the son of an Indian tailor and Vietnamese shop girl, spent several years in India in the 70s where he was convicted and jailed for 20 years for manslaughter and robbery in New Delhi's Ashoka Hotel. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)