. . BANGKOK – Addressing an audience on anti-corruption day in Bangkok, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said the government has launched a long-term strategic plan to...
. . TOKYO – Mark up another first for North Korea – two nuclear tests in one year. And that’s not all. With leader Kim Jong...
. . VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society’s most unwanted and...
. . PINLEBU – The hills of northern Myanmar’s Sagaing region were so legendarily thick with forests that in the days of kings, condemned criminals were...
. . YANGON – An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude struck central Myanmar on Wednesday, US Geological Survey (USGS) said, shaking buildings across the country and the...
. . BANGKOK – Thailand’s tiger tourism business is booming and the captive tiger population is growing fast, experts say, more than two months after Thai...
. BANGKOK – Foreign visitors from 19 countries and territories will be required to pay an increased fee for visas on arrival from next month onward....
. PARIS – The mayor of a Corsican town has banned full-body swimsuits known as “burkinis” after a clash between local residents and Muslim bathers of...
. . ISIS might be ceding territory in the Middle East, but it hasn’t given up the battle for hearts and minds. The terrorist group is playing...
. . BANGKOK – The rest of the world may think Americans eat a lot of burgers, have huge shopping malls and are ruled by an...
. . CHIANG RAI – The Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) will soon organize the International Media Familiarization Trip 2016, which will promote Chiang Rai...
. . BEIJING – Amid the South China Sea tensions, Chinese military on Friday kicked off large scale military exercises pressing troops from the five theatre...
. . KABUL – Rahmatullah Nabil the former head of Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency released documents on Thursday which he said showed that Pakistani intelligence services...
. . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Business Development Department has reviewed a new draft law and added in the document that a foreign individual cannot register a...
. . BEIJING – Three days of heavy rain in southern China have left 50 people dead and another 12 missing and destroyed thousands of homes,...
. . DHAKA – Bangladeshi forces stormed an upscale Dhaka restaurant to end a hostage-taking by heavily armed Islamic State militants early Saturday, killing six of...
. . BEIJING -Â China’s President Xi Jinping said on Friday that China will never compromise on sovereignty, his comments come ahead of an international...
. . BANGKOK – Thailand’s King Power Group, the nation’s largest duty free retailer, said it plans to spend 12 billion baht ($340 million) on buying...
. . NEW DELHI – Five men who raped a Danish tourist after she asked for directions in New Delhi were sentenced to life in prison...
. . BEIJING – China’s Rear Adm Guan Youfei, said on Saturday that China would ignore the decision of an international arbitration panel in a Philippine...