JAKARTA – The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has risen to 1,234, from 844, the national disaster mitigation agency...
When you look around walking down the street, you’ll see people with their noses in their phones’ screens all over the place. They read the news,...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s newly-appointed immigration police chief today ordered his subordinates at all international airports and border check-points to stop demanding “tip” from foreign tourists and...
BANGKOK – Inflation has continued to rise 15 months in a row to an average of 1.14 per cent for the first nine months of this...
SAMUT PRAKARN – A new-born baby has miraculously escaped almost unscathed after she was apparently dropped from the fifth floor of an apartment building onto a...
CHIANG RAI – A mild 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred in Chiang Rai’s Phan district in the early morning Saturday, the Seismological Bureau of the Meteorological Department reported....
MAE HONG SON – For hill tribes people in the far-flung villages of northernmost Mae Hong Son, getting even basic medical help can be a hard...
TOKYO – A powerful typhoon is bearing down on the Japanese archipelago after passing near Okinawa on Saturday, with forecasters warning of strong winds, high waves...
JAKARTA – Many bodies were found on Saturday along the shoreline of the Indonesian city of Palu on Sulawesi island which was hit by a major...
CHIANG MAI – Cold weather has arrived in Chiang Mai with temperature on top of Doi Inthanon, the highest mountain peak, measured at 6 degree Celsius...
CHUMPHON – A 26 year-old Thai man and his girlfriend have been sentenced to life in prison for colluding in the murder of his bride-to-be, who...
SOUTH PACIFIC – A flotilla of small boats rescued all 47 passengers and crew from an Air Niugini flight that crashed into the sea short of...
CHIANG RAI – The Meteorological Department is warning residents of Northern and Northeast Thailand to brace for thundershowers and gusty winds from today through to Monday...
OTTAWA – Canada’s parliament has unanimously voted to strip Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship over her handling of the Rohingya crisis....
HAT YAI – Tourist Police Division’s deputy commander Pol Maj-General Surachate Hakparn told Thai media yesterday that the death of a Chinese woman at Ton Nga...
CHIANG RAI – Police in Mae Chan district of Chiang Rai have thwarted an attempt by a drug smuggler trying to transport over 500Kg of Crystal...
BANGKOK – U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Glyn T. Davies on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha at Government House on the occasion...
SOUTH CHINA SEA – Japan’s biggest warship, the Kaga helicopter carrier, joined naval drills with Britain’s HMS Argyll in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday as the...
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT – A man 37 year-old man has been arrested with 300kg of crystal methamphetamine hidden under rubber sheeting and coconuts on his pickup...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Governmental Pharmac-eutical Organisation (GPO) has begun researching how to develop medicines from marijuana in acknowledgement of evidence that the outlawed substance has health-enhancing...