A Swiss foundation works with the Moken people – sea nomads who are among the few remaining hunter-gatherers in southeast Asia – to recycle piles of waste...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has intercepted more than 300 million methamphetamine pills and apprehended 177,067 suspects in 165,688 drug busts over...
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia has finally freed a Vietnamese woman who spent more than two years in prison on suspicion of killing the half-brother of North...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s agriculture ministry is warning farmers in Thailand over the treat of the Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera Frugiperda) a longtime American pest, are munching their...
BANGKOK – The Asian country where women hold 37 per cent of leadership roles, compared with an average of 24 per cent globally, may come as...
CHIANG RAI – Thai authorities seized 247 million methamphetamine pills in a series of coordinated drug raids across Thailand from November 2018 to January 2019. The...
CHIANG RAI – Authorities from four countries have intercepted drug precursors destined for the Golden Triangle and intended to make 30 million methamphetamine pills in...
BANGKOK – Thailand is looking to ban the use of very thin single-use plastic bags in 2022, followed by single-use plastic glasses and straws three...
CHIANG RAI – The peak of Phu Chi Dao Mountain in Chiang Rai’s Wiang Kaen district was shrouded in mist. A cool breeze was blowing...
CHIANG RAI – Thailand’s Drug Suppression police said yesterday that Taiwanese chemists are driving the glut of meth flooding the Mekong region after they tweaked the...
CHIANG RAI – The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) secretary-general Niyom Termsrisuk announced yesterday that a heightened cooperation between six countries as part of...
AYUTTHAYA – The farm sector has been a driving engine behind the country’s economic growth, but at the same time, debt among farmers keeps rising. The...
CHIANG RAI – Thailand’s Justice Minister ACM Prajin Juntong told the media at a mobile can=binet meeting in Chiang Rai City that the scourge of drugs...
BANGKOK – Construction of Bangkok’s Bang Sue Grand Station – a massive railway complex covering 300,000 square meters – is 70% complete, officials claim, with a...
BANGKOK – Some fruit and vegetables in Thailand contain high levels of pesticide, a medical researcher at a leading university has warned, while the Ministry of Health...
BANGKOK – The Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions on Wednesday acquitted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra of malfeasance in office charges...
CHIANG RAI – Large quantities of methamphetamine and crystal meth have flooded into Thailand this year as producers have tripled output to keep up with...
PRACHIN BURI – The sudden and rising demand for the plant Barleria Prionitis known in Thailand as Ang Kap Nu, a species of porcupine flower,...
TOKYO – Japan on Thursday executed six more members of the cult behind the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, local media...
BEIJING – Chinese exporters were scrambling Monday to cope with a plunge in U.S. sales while China’s state press shrugged off the impact of Washington’s...