CHIANG RAI – The Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation has launched a petition to pressure the government to get elephants off city streets throughout...
YALA – Angkhana Neelaphaijit, a leading rights advocate for Thai Muslims, has voiced concern over continued sexual assaults against Muslim women by security officials stationed...
BANGKOK — Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating. The United Nations’...
PHNOM PENH – One hundred rare turtle hatchling’s have been released into the Mekong River in Cambodia as part of conservation efforts, after receiving a...
BANGKOK – A 17-year-old girl who was helped to leave South Korea after contacting a policeman on Facebook and complaining of forced prostitution will be...
BEIJING — The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, bluntly told a North Korean envoy Friday that his country should return to diplomatic talks designed to rid...
HUNAN CHINA – Xinhua News in China has reported that rice believed grown in China’s Hunan Province contains unacceptable traces of cadmium, is the latest...
SAIBURI – Five paramilitary rangers were killed and one other wounded in an ambush when suspected rebels detonated a bomb buried in the road in...
NARATHIWAT – A paramilitary ranger and a suspected militant have died in a shootout early Thursday in Thailand’s insurgency-torn south, an army spokesman said, as...
CHACHOENGSAO – Social Development and Human Security Ministry officials have vowed action after discovering a rise in the number of immigrant workers in Chachoengsao province,...
BANGKOK – The first session of the Thailand-United Kingdom Strategic Dialogue was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok, on 20 May 2013. The...
CHIANG RAI– More than eight million residents and tourists in southern Thailand -– many of them in famous travel hubs such as Phuket, Hat Yai...
BANGKOK – Drug Suppression police have seized 4.49 million methamphetamine pills found in an apartment in the largest meth bust ever in Bangkok. Deputy Prime...
BANGKOK– Thailand’s deputy prime minister, Chalerm Yubamrung, plans to introduce a contentious amnesty bill into parliament on Thursday that will stoke new political tensions three...
NARATHIWAT – Four suspects have been arrested in connection with an explosion at a Narathiwat hotel in the morning that left six people injured. The...
BANGKOK – Around 12,000 Red Shirt protesters rallied in Bangkok Sunday to mark the third anniversary of a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests which exposed Thailand’s...
CHIANG RAI – The distance between the North Korean border town of Hyesan and South Korea’s capital Seoul is 440 kilometers (273 mi) as the...
RUSSIA –Â Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived on Sunday at the Russian seaport city of Kaliningrad to inspect the testing progress of a...
YANGON – Myanmar has released more than 20 political prisoners on Friday just hours ahead of President Thein Sein’s departure for a state visit to...
CHIANG RAI – Following the deaths of two children Manassanan “Nong Oey” Thongphu, aged 3 and Suriyakarn Thakan aged 3Â who died of excessive heat...