CHIANGRAI – Northern Thailand today consists of the following provinces; Lampang, Lampuhn, Chiang mai, Chiang Rai and and Mae Hong son. The idyllic mountains, rivers...
CHIANGMAI – The government plans to launch the bidding for the country’s first high-speed train route linking Bangkok with Chiang Mai by this September. The...
PHILIPPINES – The U.S Navy minesweeper that grounded on a Philippine reef last week has taken on water and sustained too much damage to be...
BANGKOK – Immigration Police have so far detained over 1,300 Rohingyas; while the Defense Minister revealed that up to 4,000 Rohingyas have been picked up...
BANGKOK – Thai Policemen have been caught on video apparently extorting a woman cashier, demanding she post 50,000 baht bail for allegedly conspiring to sell...
BEIJING – North Korea turned its anger today towards its neighbor, threatening South Korea in a statement released today. In the latest outburst of belligerence...
PATTAYA – The verdict in trial of an ex-Syrian commando accused of killing Westport man Charles Jones in Thailand may be known on March 14....
BANGKOK – The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is probing a rising number of complaints filed by Thai women living abroad who say they were...
PYONGYANG –North Korea’s National Defense Commission says the reclusive state will conduct an “all-out confrontation battle” that will include further satellite and long-range launches, as...
BANGKOK – The mother of a 22-year-old Tom Armstrong who failed to return home from Thailand is preparing to fly to Bangkok to look for...
YANGON – Myanmar is still recruiting and using child soldiers, despite embracing democratic reforms and a U.N. agreement to end the practice, a human rights...
BANGKOK – The United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay today condemned the harsh conviction of an editor and activist in Thailand for publishing two...
PHUKET – A 22-year-old Swiss student tourist reported missing while on holiday in Thailand has been found alive and well. She’s being detained in Ranong...
PHUKET- Two German tourists have been shot and wounded overnight near Patong Beach in Phuket, Joseph Woerner and Johann Baschegger were hit, one in the...
BANGKOK – A Thailand criminal court convicted Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, the editor of the now-defunct Voice of Taksin magazine to 11 years in jail on Wednesday...
NARATHIWAT – Six Thai schools have been shut down temporarily after a teacher was shot dead while having lunch at his school’s cafeteria, marking the...
BANGKOK – Police hunting for a missing Suffolk man,Tom Armstrong in Thailand have said money was withdrawn from his bank account within the last week....
UK-based charity says the world’s 100 richest people earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty four times over. The world’s 100 richest people earned...
BANGKOK – The Public Health Ministry is issuing a warning against pills containing Phenazepam, which has been proven to have lethal side effects. According to...
CEBU – A 66-year-old Canadian John Pope opened fire inside a courtroom in the central Philippine province of Cebu on Tuesday, killing a doctor and a...