BANGKOK – Thai National Security Council authorities have detained two Lebanese men on suspicion of having ties with the Hezbollah militant group, media reports said...
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...
THAILAND – The Russian Foreign Ministry has warned Russians against traveling abroad, saying that they could be arrested as part of a supposed U.S. “hunt” for Russian citizens...
PHILIPPINES – UK National Michael Taylor, accused of murdering his girlfriend in Thailand has still not been extradited to stand trial because police have been “too...
CHIANG RAI – In Bangkok, Songkran is celebrated as a national holiday from April 13 to 15 this year. But as April 12 falls on...
PATTAYA – An Iranian National Heidar Alirezaei has been arrested in Pattaya for using a fake passport to allegedly steal a rental car. Heidar Alirezaei,...
PHUKET – Police are stepping up efforts in the search for a missing Russian man in Phuket after his Russian girlfriend, who was feared kidnapped,...
PATTAYA – Thai authorities on Tuesday revealed that the missing Malaysian Airlines’ Beijing-bound tickets of two imposters traveling with passports stolen in Thailand were booked...
PATTAYA – With huge numbers of visitors and patchy law enforcement, Thailand has a booming black market for fake identity documents, and it was here...
KUALA LUMPUR– Interpol says no country checked its database that held information about two stolen passports that were used to board an ill-fated Malaysia Airlines...
PATTAYA – Nigerian National Godwin Chinedu Agbarakwe staying illegally in Thailand for 14 months has been arrested on both immigration and drug charges after officers...
SURAT THANI – Russian national Yuri Chemanov wanted for conspiracy in the drug trade has been arrested on Samui Island Thailand following close Interpol collaboration....
TOKYO– Japan has vowed to continue assisting five Southeast Asian countries in the Mekong sub-region in building infrastructure and developing the regional economy towards the...
BONTOC, Philippines – Seventeen people, including two foreigners, were killed while 31 others were injured when a bus plunged into a 150-meter-deep ravine in Bontoc,...
BANGKOK – When our reader moved to Bangkok to be with his girlfriend, he ended up battling with her mother – for trying to help...
PATTAYA – A Scottish Doctor doctor paid blackmailers £10,000 after being targeted in a sex extortion scam in Pattaya, Thailand. Police burst into the man’s...
THAILAND – British retirees are turning up in Thai resorts in their thousands – and they have no intention of going home, even if their...
PHUKET– Vietnamese Nguyen Van Thiet who claimed to be a monk was arrested in Thailand as he allegedly attempted to smuggle 2.3 kilograms of crystal...
They are scattered all over Asia and come from all socioeconomic backgrounds. You will find them in places like Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Phuket...
CHANG RAI– The First Viang Chiang Saen Port in Thailand’s northernmost province of Chiang Rai has officially been promoted as a tourist port, as part...