CHIANG RAI – While forest authorities have failed miserably to protect land from big money and corruption, they have made indigenous forest dwellers the scapegoats...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s political mess has reached the point where it may have to be the king, not parliament, who appoints the next prime minister....
BANGKOK – While the world’s attention has been focused on upheavals in the Middle East and, most recently, Ukraine and Venezuela, less attention has been...
BANGKOK – Anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban has vowed to ask His Majesty the King to approve his effort to seize power from government of...
THAILAND– On March 24 a bus accident in Tak province in western Thailand killed more than 30 people. The chartered double-decker bus was carrying municipal workers on...
HANOI – Activists have urged Cambodia and Vietnam to use the Mekong River Commission’s second high-level summit this weekend to take a stand against a controversial...
BANGKOK – The clock is ticking for Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who faces impeachment within weeks, but her supporters are hatching plans to thwart...
Flight MH370 – A French satellite scanning the Indian Ocean for remnants of a missing jetliner found a possible plane debris field possible plane debris...
TAK – Thailand’s roads are among the world’s deadliest and accidents are common, especially on buses traveling late at night. A Double-Decker bus carrying municipal...
CAMBODIA – The world’s largest UFO cult has reached Cambodia. “People are not [ready] yet, but we will keep trying to spread the message,” said...
BANGKOK – It is a tough time to be a woman politician in Thailand. Parodies of its first female premier, Yingluck Shinawatra, insulting her as...
BANGKOK – Polling ended on Sunday in the Land of Coups (Thailand), where the general elections were boycotted by the opposition and disrupted by protestors seeking...
BANGKOK – Elections in Thailand passed off peacefully on Sunday but the country was no nearer to ending its intractable political conflict, with the government...
KHON KAEN – As election day approaches in Thailand, supporters of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra vow to take to the barricades in her defence. Clad in...
BANGKOK – Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Thai Prime Minister, a business tycoon of Chinese origin, committed the most unforgivable crime in the eyes of the...
CHIANG RAI – Thai pro-government “red shirt” activists rallied in the northern city of Chiang Rai late on Friday as a loyalist movement that has kept...
BANGKOK – Farmers are up in arms against the government’s failure to pay for their rice while employees of a state bank dressed in black...
BANGKOK – Anti-government protesters in Thailand are blocking key intersections in the heart of Bangkok in an attempt to bring the government to a standstill...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Red-Shirt movement expects a half-million government supporters to take to the streets on Jan. 13, the day anti-government forces have pledged to...
CANBERRA – Thousands of Australians finding themselves in trouble overseas are facing the prospect of new charges for government help. On Saturday, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie...