https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Prosecutors confirmed on Wednesday they are investigating two Bavarian teenagers who shot plastic bullets at the King of Thailand as he holidayed in the town of Erding earlier this month. https://www.thelocal.de/20170621/bavarian-teens-under-investigation-for-ambushing-thai-king-with-toy-gun Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:12:17 +0200 bavarian-teens-under-investigation-for-ambushing-thai-king-with-toy-gun The German Foreign Ministry has announced that three Germans were injured in a series of explosions which hit southern Thailand on Thursday and Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20160812/three-germans-injured-in-bomb-attack-in-thailand Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:57:01 +0200 three-germans-injured-in-bomb-attack-in-thailand Customers officers did a double-take at Munich airport last week when a suitcase belonging to a man arriving from Thailand turned out to contain the reeking skull of an unfortunate ape. https://www.thelocal.de/20160205/customs-seize-stinking-ape-skull-from-travellers-luggage Fri, 05 Feb 2016 11:57:28 +0100 customs-seize-stinking-ape-skull-from-travellers-luggage Thai authorities will deliver a man to Germany later this week to stand trial on accusations of kidnapping the wife of a Bavarian banker to finance his lavish lifestyle abroad. https://www.thelocal.de/20150702/thai-police-send-kidnapper-to-face-munich-justice Thu, 02 Jul 2015 12:39:49 +0200 thai-police-send-kidnapper-to-face-munich-justice German tourists on holiday in Thailand were among thousands evacuated from the beaches and taken to high ground after an enormous undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean prompted a tsunami alarm. https://www.thelocal.de/20120411/41881 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:10:00 +0200 41881 Thai police are investigating reports that a German woman who died when she fell off an elephant was crushed to death by her "heavy-set" husband. https://www.thelocal.de/20111201/39245 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:46:00 +0100 39245 Former owner of the bankrupt Beluga shipping firm Niels Stolberg has been accused of funnelling money donated to rebuild a school in Thailand after the 2004 tsunami in Asia into his company’s coffers as he battled to keep it afloat. https://www.thelocal.de/20111005/38017 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:01:00 +0200 38017 Germany has released a plane belonging to Thailand's crown prince which was seized at Munich airport as surety for an outstanding Thai government debt, a court official said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20110810/36875 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:10:00 +0200 36875 Thailand's crown prince has offered to pay from his own pocket to end an awkward episode between his country and German authorities, who seized his plane in a long-running debt dispute. https://www.thelocal.de/20110801/36655 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:10:00 +0200 36655 Thailand's foreign minister on Thursday ruled out paying a multi-million dollar bank guarantee to secure the release of the Thai crown prince's jet, which has been impounded in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20110721/36451 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:12:00 +0200 36451 A German court on Wednesday ordered the release of an aircraft flown by the Thai crown prince impounded in Germany on receipt of a €20-million ($28.2-million) bank guarantee. https://www.thelocal.de/20110720/36409 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:29:00 +0200 36409 Thailand's government says it’s girding itself for a high-level diplomatic scrap with Germany for impounding the jet of country's crown prince. https://www.thelocal.de/20110715/36309 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:50:00 +0200 36309 German authorities have seized a Boeing 737 aeroplane controlled by Thailand's crown prince at Munich airport, saying the Thai government owes money to a now insolvent German construction company. https://www.thelocal.de/20110713/36265 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:17:00 +0200 36265 A Thai waxworks museum has apologised and covered up a giant billboard of Adolf Hitler giving a Nazi salute after the Israeli and German embassies lodged complaints, its director said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.de/20091018/22647 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:41:00 +0200 22647 Thai police on Monday arrested a local man for the murder of a female German tourist who was killed during a notorious full moon party on a beach in southern Thailand, an official said. https://www.thelocal.de/20090112/16693 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:23:00 +0100 16693