SARABURI – A 28 Year Old Rice Farmer Boonruang Pohdaeng joined a Prathom 1 (first grade) class earlier this year. She has been so keen...
CHIANGRAI – Chiang Rai is finding various clever ways to toss off perceptions of it as a northern backwater, not least by becoming a role...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s ”Mr Condom”, Mechai Viravaidya, who has saved millions of lives by raising awareness of HIV/AIDS, says his country is facing a...
BANGKOK – Across Thailand, ubiquitous Starbucks and McDonald’s outlets have become much more than a place for a quick coffee or a hamburger. Outlets are increasingly...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Government’s free WiFi service will cover 80 % of the country by May next year, according to Anudith Nakornthap, Minister of the...
NARATHIWAT— Six people, including a one-year-old girl and two teachers, were gunned down in separate attacks on a teashop and school in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south...
PATHUM THANI – Two English teachers have been found dead sitting side-by-side in the living room of an apartment on the outskirts of Bangkok, according...
BANGKOK – In Thailand, at least one person becomes HIV-positive every hour, joining a million others who have been infected with the Aids virus in the...
KUALA LUMPUR— When Hussein Juhar, a Rohingya Muslim from Burma’s western Arakan (Rakhine) State, saw the crew of the boat that would smuggle him to...
PHUKET – Former crown of Prince of Nepal, Paras Shah was arrested in Thailand a month ago on charge of possessing illegal drug and is...
BANGKOK – Thailand may soon be known less as the “Land of Smiles” than as one of the most dangerous countries on Earth. Reuters reports...
HUA HIN – Police have launched a murder inquiry after a British man died in hospital a year after he was attacked in a...
CHIANGRAI-On 13th December, a British couple are cycling from their home in Chiang Rai to China. Hannah Broughton and Caspian Jamie are embarking on this...
BANGKOK – Benjamin Williams a British Expat teacher apparently altered his age in his passport so he could continue teaching at a school in Buri Ram...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Kalle Kristensen a 67-year-old Norwegian man from Chiangrai Roller Skied across Thailand for charity, beating his planned arrival date in Pattaya by...
PATTANI – Governor Pramuk Lamul gave details of the arrests of four suspected insurgents; Hapici Jehna, 22, Yawawi Hama, 22, Rohwe Salae, 23 and Aluesue...
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 TIMES – Lindsay Hawdon and her two boys swap Thailand’s beaches and cities for Lanjia Lodge, a tribal hill village in the Chiang Rai...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Supap Kirtsaeng had tuition and living expenses to pay when he arrived in the United States from Thailand to attend college. So...
CHIANGRAI – Thai students in remote areas have received tablet computers in accord with the government’s education policy, but there are still some limitations on...