BEIJING – Asian powers are outpacing the United States to become the biggest spenders on defense by 2021 and are fuelling an “explosion” in the...
PHUKET – A 19-year-old from Koh Kaew, Peerapon Nunark who went on a seaside picnic with his family has drowned, their hopes were dashed when...
CHIANG RAI – Cross-borders improvement with neighbours will be part of the strategy of the Thai government promised at the Greater Mekong Investment Forum, Transport...
BANGKOK—Thailand’s government took a step toward disclosing the full cost of its rice-price support program, saying it had lost 136 billion baht, or $4.4 billion,...
BANGKOK – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra‘s government approved proposals to reduce the top price at which it buys rice from the country’s farmers to 12,000...
PATTAYA – Paul Cardwell, the former CEO of Powell Valley Healthcare and a wanted fugitive, has been apprehended in Thailand after a nearly year-long...
BANGKOK – It’s not yet clear whether Thailand’s credit-rating is at risk from its multi-billion dollar rice subsidy program, but its credibility is already taking...
BANGKOK — Thailand’s government is scrambling to assuage worries that the country’s multibillion-dollar rice subsidy program could result in a larger-than-expected loss after Moody’s Investors...
BANGKOK – Counter-terrorism cooperation with Thailand remained strong. Thailand engaged with the United States on investigations into Hizballah and Iranian activities after incidents involving both...
BANGKOK – Last Thursday while Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his residence and urging Japan to...
HUNAN CHINA – Xinhua News in China has reported that rice believed grown in China’s Hunan Province contains unacceptable traces of cadmium, is the latest...
MYANMAR – In the Western stereotype, Buddhists are meditating pacifists who strive to keep their distance from worldly passions. But last month, more than 40...
BANGKOK – Demand for food is set to surge within the region. Can productivity growth keep pace? Is it a Malthusianism catastrophe, or the stuff...
IOWA USA – The first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked...
MYANMAR – Authorities in Myanmar say they are increasingly wary of a potential threat from Islamic radicals as militants beyond its borders begin taking up...
Many foreign investors who run nominee companies here are from Russia, India and China and the number is increasing CHIANG RAI – Thailand’s Tourist Police...
BANGKOK – Martin Garnett a former Australian luxury car dealer turned heroin trafficker who was once on death row has secured his transfer home after...
CHIANG RAI – A long list of attacks on women in several countries says be careful, Bali is often thought of as a paradise on...
BANGKOK – As well as dousing each other liberally with water during the recent Songkran festival to mark the country’s traditional New Year’s Day holiday,...
BANGKOK — Iranian National Saeid Moradi whose legs were blown off during an alleged botched bomb plot last year against Israeli diplomats in Bangkok said...