KASHMIR – Sarah Groves, 24, from Guernsey, was found stabbed to death in the floating hotel she had been staying at for up to two...
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...
THON MIN YAR – Deep in the lawless mountains of the Golden Triangle, sloping fields of illegal poppies have just been scraped dry for opium....
HAT YAI – Police say suspected militants in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south have detonated a motorcycle bomb that killed a 9-year-old boy and wounded 10 other people....
BEIJING – China’s naval and paramilitary ships are churning up the ocean around islands it disputes with Tokyo in what experts say is a strategy...
BANGKOK – The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) hosted a meeting with the INCB at its Bangkok headquarters. Ambassadors from around 20 countries...
KUNMING – Official news agency Xinhua reported Friday that the four men died by lethal injection in the southwestern city of Kunming. Naw Kham of Myanmar...
CHIANGRAI – Thai jasmine rice, also known as “Khao Hom Mali Thung Kula Ronghai,” will become the first product in Southeast Asia to be registered...
CHIANGRAI– It wasn’t that long ago that throughout Southeast Asia the term Golden Triangle was associated with just one thing: opium trafficking. For those fighting...
TOKYO – If Chinese warships escalate from locking-on radars to actually pulling the trigger in the East China Sea, they’ll have lots to shoot at...
MYANMAR – International and local human rights groups have demanded the USA and UK pressure Thein Sein’s government to stop the Burma Army’s use of...
Adrian Bridge takes a Mekong cruise through Laos, where, despite the encroachment of the modern world, the ‘Mother of Water’ remains the region’s spiritual lifeblood. My...
BANGKOK– Nokia has launched the cheapest WP8 Lumia, Lumia 620 in Thailand. China was the first country to get Lumia 620 on sale. The price at...
KACHIN – China has sent more troops to its side of the border to try and stop the movement of more Kachin refugees fleeting the...
CHIANGRAI -Surapol Promnimit, 25, was arrested on Phahon Yothin Road in Chiang Rai’s Mae Chan district while allegedly transporting 1.2 million speed pills and 46kg...
Teens wearing fake orthodontic braces. BANGKOK – The fake braces trend is a fashion statement gaining popularity among youth in Asia that can kill...
CHIANGRAI – The police have confiscated more than 25 million baht worth of assets belonging to Naw Kham, a former drug lord who has been...
BANGKOK – After three years in Thai prison, John M. Johansen is back in Norway to celebrate Christmas but it’s only a matter of time...
BANGKOK – A Thai court on Thursday ordered the extradition of fugitive Italian banker Vito Roberto Palazzolo found guilty of laundering money for some of Italy’s...
CHIANGRAI – In October last year 13 bodies—blindfolded, hands tied, showing bullet wounds—were found floating in the Mekong river in northern Thailand. They were identified...