BANGKOK – Rumors about spoiled and contaminated rice triggered by Facebook comments of a Thai TV host Suttipong Thamawuit have caused an uproar from Thai...
MYANMAR – A recent peace initiative in Myanmar’s eastern Shan State could play a key role in poppy eradication in a country which is the...
AYUTTHAYA – Thai authorities incinerated 10 billion baht worth of narcotics on Wednesday in a bid to tackle their reputations as hubs for illicit substances...
PHUKET – A 19-year-old from Koh Kaew, Peerapon Nunark who went on a seaside picnic with his family has drowned, their hopes were dashed when...
CHIANG RAI – Steel girders jut from the low skyline of the Thai city of Udon Thani near the Laos border as workers lay cement...
MYANMAR – Japan’s industrial investors stayed with Thailand through the army coups, the Bangkok-paralyzing massed Red-Shirt protests, and the mismanaged floods of 2011 that swamped...
CHIANG RAI – Following the deaths of two children Manassanan “Nong Oey” Thongphu, aged 3 and Suriyakarn Thakan aged 3 who died of excessive heat...
BANGKOK – As well as dousing each other liberally with water during the recent Songkran festival to mark the country’s traditional New Year’s Day holiday,...
CHIANG RAI – Dr Kriangsak Watcharanukulkiat President of the Rural Doctors Society has reported he has found irregularities in the Public Health Ministry’s Bt147-million (S$6.3...
THON MIN YAR – Deep in the lawless mountains of the Golden Triangle, sloping fields of illegal poppies have just been scraped dry for opium....
BANGKOK – Visiting Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium met with Thai officials here on Monday to discuss trade and investment cooperation. The Belgian royal entourage,...
BANGKOK – Danai Ruangsorn, chairman of the Thai Roads Foundation, has said a study, conducted found up to 26,000 people are killed in road accidents...
BRUSSELS – The negotiations launched this week for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Thailand and the European Union have raised concerns among both Thai...
BANGKOK – Her employer’s brother raped her repeatedly for four months until Noi, 17, mustered the courage to press charges, but courage, she discovered, has...
BANGKOK – The Karen Network for Culture and Environment on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pressure police to catch a fugitive Thai...
MYANMAR – Burmese President Thein Sein has announced the formation of a committee to look into the release of the hundreds of political prisoners still...
CHIANGRAI – The planned Xayaburi hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River in Laos promises to disrupt the reproductive cycle of the giant catfish, one of...
BANGKOK – French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault yesterday discussed trade, investment and cooperation opportunities with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in all areas of mutual interest...
BANGKOK – Foreign organizations have always been quick with promises to help Thailand care for refugees fleeing violence, but rarely deliver, leaving the Kingdom to...
BANGKOK – Thailand and Cambodia entered into an agreement on Friday to establish a “sister cities” relationship between Phnom Penh and Bangkok in a bid...