VIETNAM – In the central province of Quang Binh, there are two villages where men often go to Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia to find aloeswood. The...
DENPASAR, Indonesia — A passenger jet operated by budget airline Lion Air — which recently sealed blockbuster orders for new planes — missed the runway...
PATTAYA – Former Capitol Records executive Tim Carr 57 has been found dead by police in his rented Pattaya City Apartment. Carr was discovered by...
PATTANI – Police say two soldiers were killed and six were wounded in a roadside bombing in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south. Police Col. Manit Yimsai...
BANGKOK – Criminal defamation charges against a prominent labor activist violate his right to free speech and will have a chilling effect on investigations of...
KASHMIR – Sarah Groves, 24, from Guernsey, was found stabbed to death in the floating hotel she had been staying at for up to two...
HO CHI MINH – Coffee farmers in Vietnam, the world’s biggest producer of the robusta beans used by Nestle SA (NESN) in instant drinks, are...
BANGKOK – The Irrawaddy Newspaper has reported that three trafficked and raped Burmese women were rescued from their captors by Thai police in Bangkok on...
RAYONG – Thailand is the “Detroit of Asia” and it is Japanese car makers in particular that use the country as a manufacturing hub. In...
BANGKOK – Thailand, already Southeast Asia’s most successful nation at luring in foreign film shoots, is ramping up efforts at promoting its exotic settings and...
BANGKOK – An Australian mother of three has been left with a gaping hole in her stomach and will spend months recovering after a tummy...
DUBAI – After being away from Twitter for over a year, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra chose April Fool’s Day yesterday to come back – to...
CHIANG RAI – Myanmar’s Drug Lords, uncertain about Myanmar’s New government’s policy on narcotics, have begun dumping their goods in large quantities across the Northern...
CHIANG MAI – Australia’s Scott Hend charged from six-shots back to win the inaugural Chiangmai Golf Classic presented by PTT by three strokes after a...
BANGKOK –Thai authorities arrested a 38-year-old man attempting to collect a bag containing 54 ploughshare tortoises (Astrochelys yniphora) and 21 radiated tortoises (Astrochelys radiata) in...
CHIANG MAI – Thailand’s Prayad Marksaeng maintained his title charge at the inaugural $750,000 Chiangmai Golf Classic with a five-under-par 67 in the second round...
CHIANG RAI – Authorities in Chiang Rai are using fire trucks to spray the air in northern towns, but this has little or no impact...
BANGKOK – A Thai Video Vendor Akachai Hongkangwan has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison Thursday for selling video CDs of...
CHIANG MAI – Open champion Ernie Els will leave his favoured belly putter at home this week when he bids to become the first winner...
TRANG – A total of 14 Burmese nationals who had been trafficked into Thailand’s fishing industry were rescued by the Thai authorities on Friday and...