CHIANGRAI TIMES– British national James Henry Kinch has now been extradited from Thailand to Sydney Australia, after more than four years in a Bangkok jail....
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Re-elected US President Barack Obama now has four more years to extend US influence with the superpower in waiting, China. President Obama...
BANGKOK – Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney on Tuesday night after a grueling presidential race and used his acceptance speech in front of a...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Laos says it will officially launch construction of the controversial Xayaburi dam project on the Mekong River this week despite objections from...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A Chinese court has sentenced four members of a Myanmar drug gang to death Tuesday for kidnapping and killing 13 Chinese sailors...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – An Elderly Couple from Australia, Betty and Albert Jager had visited Thailand before but their most recent trip was considerably different...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The trade of dog meat has existed in Thailand for centuries, yet it is only relatively recently with the growth of grass...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Swiss police said Wednesday they had dismantled a network that imported Thai women and men and forced them to work as prostitutes...
BANGKOK – The provincial offices of the Department of Welfare and Labour Protection have been instructed to survey migrant workers wishing to send their children...
CHIANGRAI– Opium cultivation in Southeast Asia’s main poppy-growing countries has more than doubled over the past six years driven largely by rising heroin demand in...
BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has consolidated her position with a sweeping cabinet reshuffle nearly 16 months after she was sworn into office. King...
BANGKOK– They’re beautiful, well dressed and for the right price will promote anything from washing powder to luxury cars. But working as a product promoter...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – An Australian and a Canadian have been found dead in the Park Plaza Bangkok hotel after a suspected drug overdose. A maid...
BANGKOK-Months after taking to the skies with Thailand’s first transsexual air crew, fledgling carrier PC Air has suspended services over financial troubles that left passengers...
THAILAND – Twenty schoolchildren surround a city bus in central Bangkok. Some get on to confront a 16-year-old from a rival school and, within moments,...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A senior Thai official has accused Laos of bowing to pressure from China by allowing casinos in the country but authorities in...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Silky Shan soup, which yields a chickpea-thickened breakfast comfort food, fish stew with aromatics, and coconut sauce noodles with chicken are characteristic...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Cambodia’s revered ex-king Norodom Sihanouk, whose life encompassed turbulent years of rule, exile and war including the Khmer Rouge reign of terror,...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – For some Thais, the capital city is just too much. Traffic jams, rainy-season floods and the general stress of day-to-day living in...
BANGKOK – A South African tourist fatally shot himself at a Pattaya Beach Road shooting range with a 9 mm pistol. He was rushed to...