Video shows moment express train flies off tracks in Taiwan

23 Sept 00:54 Key points summarised by AI

Surveillance footage captured a Puyuma express train derailing at high speed around a bend in Taiwan's Yilan County.
The catastrophic accident resulted in 18 fatalities and 187 injuries, with all eight carriages derailing and five completely overturning.
The 12-second video vividly shows the train's engine leaning sharply before leaping off the tracks, skidding, and crashing into overhead power line poles.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen offered words of consolation to victims' relatives and joined Buddhist monks in prayer, marking the nation's worst rail disaster in over three decades.

Uthenthawai students and alumni declare truce with Pathumwan rivals

Yesterday 20:34 Key points summarised by AI

Uthenthawai students and alumni have pledged to cease violent clashes with Pathumwan Institute rivals, coinciding with their campus's reopening after a 90-day closure.
The Minister of Higher Education is mediating the long-running conflict, while the campus closure has significantly disrupted in-person classes and laboratory work for over 1,000 students.
Uthenthawai resists relocation from its current site, citing a historical land grant from King Rama VI, despite Chulalongkorn University's plans to reclaim the land for an educational hub.
Concerns are mounting over the legality of the campus closure, its detrimental impact on uninvolved students, and the potential commercial development of the land, which critics argue contradicts the late King Rama VI's intentions.