BANDUNG – The owner of a Nazi-themed cafe in central Indonesia said Monday he has decided to permanently close down amid intense pressure from home...
CHIANG RAI – Thai Buddhists nationwide are making merit and performing other religious practices on Asalha Puja Day, which falls on today, the full moon...
BANGKOK – The Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) is teaming up with seven major online service providers to introduce new guidelines for dealing with the...
CHON BURI – Police in Chon Buri Province have arrested a renowned designer who they say killed a man, put the body in a suitcase and...
BANGKOKÂ – Thailand’s navy denied on Friday a Reuters report that its personnel were involved in a lucrative smuggling and trafficking network that exploits minority...
PHUKET – From jet ski scams to robbery, assault and even police extortion, for the millions of tourists who flock to Thailand each year the...
PHUKET – The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) announced yesterday that it had rescued 12 Myanmar women aged between 16-29, forced into prostitution in Phang...
BANGKOK – The Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Wirapol Sukpol, an ex-monk formerly known as Luang Pu Nenkham, on three charges with a...
SAKON NAKHON – Eighty dogs bound for cross-border transport to Lao and beyond were seized in Thailand’s Northern-Eastern province of Nakhon Phanom today. Pol...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Deputy Commerce Minister Nattawut Saikua denied allegations that Cambodian rice was traded in large quantity under the government’s nationwide rice program. Nattawut...
BANGKOK – Saffron-robed Buddhist monks’ involvement in sex, drugs, murder and corruption is being increasingly exposed in Thailand, thanks to YouTube, resulting in shock, dismay,...
TAIWAN – A marriage between two transgender people in Taiwan may be annulled as the government refuses to recognize a marriage between two people officially...
CHANGJI, China – The relatives of a 23-year-old woman from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have claimed that the woman died after being electrocuted...
BANGKOK – Wiraphon Sukphon a Thai monk who was disrobed after a videotaped private jet trip unleashed allegations of improper conduct will face arrest for...
BANGKOK – The Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned Thailand’s Chulalong University and its faculty Friday for displaying a mural depicting Adolf Hitler along with a group...
BANGKOK – Two Thai women lured into forced prostitution in Kowloon have been rescued from a human trafficking syndicate, according to Social Development and Human...
BANGKOK – Chances for former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra to return home after seven years of self-exile overseas have become dimmer in the face of...
BANGKOK – Rumors about spoiled and contaminated rice triggered by Facebook comments of a Thai TV host Suttipong Thamawuit have caused an uproar from Thai...
NAKHON PHANOM – Thai police say they have rescued about 90 famished cats that they believed had been headed to Vietnam. They declined to say...
BANGKOK – More than 30 Thai monks have been defrocked for illegal drug use, an official said, in the latest scandal to hit the kingdom’s...