Myanmar’s increasing amphetamine production is contributing to the worldwide rise of synthetic drug use, with the Mekong River now a key route for drug trafficking...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thailand is willing to relinquish its role as the world’s biggest rice exporter as the government prepares to buy grain directly from...
Thailand’s plan to pay its rice growers far above market rates is expected to push up prices for the staple that feeds almost half the...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A smuggler faces jail after he flew eight endangered tortoises into the country in a Tupperware box. David Brett had the rare...
As debate goes on about whether Thailand should have its first nuclear power plant, Korea Electricity Power Corporation (Kepco) warns that any such development will...
The National Basketball Association will host its first-ever event in Thailand with the NBA 3-on-3 Thailand 2011 presented by Singha Drinking Water, the league announced...
Seven tugboats pulled the vessel, a platform China acquired from Ukraine, into the port of Dalian on Sunday morning. The carrier’s radar was visible, but...
In a prize catch, the Mumbai police have succeeded in bringing back alleged fugitive gangster and drug smuggler Santosh Shetty, from Bangkok to Mumbai, within...
Today the Foreign Office released British Behaviour Abroad 2011, with detailed figures on British nationals in trouble overseas (read: Brits behaving badly abroad). The period...
Thailand Myanmar authorities asked for the suppression of dissidents based in Thailand’s northern border, according to Samart Loifah, the governor of the northern province of Thailand,...
Police raided a rented room in Chiang Mai s Muang district Tuesday morning and rescued eight children aged 3-14 from three Burmese human trafficking suspects...
Ghana and Nigeria are becoming synonymous with Internet fraud as a Google search reveals. Last month, in a town hall meeting in New York with...
Over the three days from July 15 to 17, 2011, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (YMC) will join Thai Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (TYM) and Thailand’s...
The upcoming model of the Toyota Fortuner has just been revealed in Thailand. This is the very same facelift that will be going to India. Toyota...
While former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, may be one of the most polarizing politicians in Thai history, there is little doubt of his business acumen,...
Non-governmental agencies and state officials are attending a two-day conference to discuss child protection issues facing Goa’s tourism industry Church-based officials, community organizations and state...
When Thailand scrambled two years ago for a vaccine to fight the H1N1 pandemic that spread quickly across the world, health authorities hit a roadblock faced...
BANGKOK: German Winfried Schaefer is close to clinching a deal with Thailand to take over as national team coach ahead of the start of the team’s...
There is a growing body of scholarship that documents the interconnections between the global drugs trade, state officials (and unofficials) from many countries and organized criminal...
CHIANG RAI (THAILAND): A mosque dating back almost 200 years, was the only stop made by the 35-member Jejak Warisan Jawi II (JWJ2) expedition, upon arriving...