CHIANG RAI – Packed tight into wire baskets — sometimes 20 or more to a cage — animal rights activists say as many as 200,000...
RAYONG – Thailand’s Marine Police have reported that at least 12 Burmese migrant workers drowned off Thailand’s southwestern coast this weekend when boats smuggling them...
BANGKOK – The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers is “deeply concerned” by the misuse of the lese majeste rules, its president Jacob...
SEOUL – Nine North Korean refugees who had escaped from their homeland and made their way to Laos were forcibly repatriated on May 28. The...
KRABI – About 200 small-boat operators at Pipi Islands off Thailand’s southern province of Krabi gathered on Saturday in protest of foreign yacht owners who...
LASHIO, Myanmar – When a huge mob of Buddhist thugs crawled on the roof of Ma Sandar Soe’s shop, doused it with gasoline and set...
BANGKOK – Counter-terrorism cooperation with Thailand remained strong. Thailand engaged with the United States on investigations into Hizballah and Iranian activities after incidents involving both...
BANGKOK –Â Madagascar has sent an emergency mission to Bangkok following the recent largest ever seizure of smuggled ploughshare tortoises (Astrochelysynophora) by the Thai authorities....
CHIANG RAI – A tense stand-off is unfolding in the South China Sea between a group of Philippine marines and several Chinese naval vessels. The...
RAYONG -Thailand is facing fresh allegations of using slave labour in its fishing industry with the launch of a new investigation into the sale, abuse...
BANGKOK – According to Global Destination Cities Index forecast research Bangkok will become the world’s most popular city for tourists this year, ahead of London....
CHIANG RAI – Laos has sent nine North Koreans who fled their totalitarian homeland through China last month back to China, a senior Seoul official said...
BANGKOK – A sapling of the original Holy Bodhi Tree from Bodhgaya will be presented to the King of Thailand during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s...
AYUTTHAYA – Workers at an elephant shelter have cut back the tusks of an elephant that killed a Thai woman in the former capital of...
Thai security forces are seen at the site of a bomb attack in Bangkok BANGKOK – Police say a bomb put inside a garbage bag exploded...
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...