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The abbot's secretary was stopped from leaving the site with over 1000 amulets containing pieces of tiger skin, two whole tiger skins, and nine or ten tiger fangs. [18] He and four other persons are investigated for alleged wildlife smuggling. [19] The temple was closed to the public at the beginning of the raid.
In March 1810, the Siamese at Pak Phra and Trang had successfully mustered its fleets. Nakhon Phat had his adoptive son Phra Borrirak Phubetr, [7] together with the Kedahan Laksamana, lead the combined Siamese-Malay fleet to attack the Burmese at Phuket. Phraya Thotsayotha also sailed from Pak Phra. It was in this moment that Phuket was hit by ...
Stereographic photograph (1903) of the Man-eater tiger, who had killed an estimated 200 people, in the Calcutta zoo.. Tiger attacks are a form of human–wildlife conflict which have killed more humans than attacks by any of the other big cats, with the majority of these attacks occurring in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Southeast Asia.
Chinese authorities issued a warning after a viral video showed a farmer narrowly escaping a Siberian tiger attack on Monday in the country’s northernmost Heilongjiang province.. Two men were ...
During the Burmese Invasion of Phuket in 1809, Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin Halim Shah II, who was known in Thai sources as "Tuanku Pangeran" (Thai: ตวนกูปะแงหรัน), contributed a sizable force from Kedah to aid the Siamese against the Burmese.
Authorities have called the spate of deadly incidents unprecedented, saying that only four tiger attacks in total, two of which were fatal, were recorded in five years between 2017 and 2022.
Tiger attacks like Tharu’s were a rare occurrence in 2004. But as the tiger population increases, these attacks are becoming more frequent, and since 2019, there have been at least 34 fatal ...
Phuket is the largest island in modern Thailand, locating in Southern Thailand on the western coast in the Andaman Sea.Historically at the fringe of Thai sphere of influence, Phuket has a unique place in Thai history, as its natural maritime wilderness hid lucrative tin resources that attracted both locals and foreigners who competed for control over the island, also a battleground for ...