CHIANGRAI – A drug runner carrying 60,030 methamphetamine pills has been killed in a clash with the Pha Muang Task Force at a northern border...
YANGON – Myanmar’s military has been granted a $2.4 billion annual budget, just over 12 percent of total government spending in the poverty-stricken country, according...
BEIJING — Domestic politics trumps international politics, in China as everywhere. So even though China lost a friend in President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who...
BEIJING – China’s naval and paramilitary ships are churning up the ocean around islands it disputes with Tokyo in what experts say is a strategy...
CHIANGRAI – Beyond bargain shopping at Chatuchak Market or visiting the different temples in Bangkok, much remains unexplored in Thailand. On my last stay, I...
BANGKOK – Over the last nine months the insurgency in the Deep South of Thailand has escalated dramatically. Just within the last week two bombs...
BANGKOK – Such is the reliance of Thailand on gas from Myanmar that scheduled maintenance at a plant in April may cause Thailand’s cities go dark...
YANGON — The image was meant to convey growing friendship between the United States and Myanmar, currently the world’s hottest frontier market. Flanked by...
BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday urged This to have confidence in the government’s plans and measures to address the possible power...
KAMPHAENG – A Thai couple accused of kidnapping, torturing and enslaving a 12-year-old Karen girl for over five years, are on the run from authorities...
CHIANGRAI – The Energy Ministry is preparing emergency measures for April to deal with an imminent shortage of power following disruption of gas supply. Energy...
POIPET -Soccer (Football) is falling under a cloud of suspicion as never before, sullied by a multibillion-dollar web of match-fixing that is corrupting increasingly larger...
While the great majority of Thai people have experienced rapid development, millions of people, including stateless people and undocumented migrant workers, have not reaped these benefits,”...
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysian authorities said Friday they are seeking help from forensic experts in Thailand and Australia after their own tests failed to establish...
TOKYO – If Chinese warships escalate from locking-on radars to actually pulling the trigger in the East China Sea, they’ll have lots to shoot at...
BANGKOK – According to Science Daily ten new species of semi-aquatic earthworms have been discovered in Thailand. A study documented the discovery, authored by Dr....
BANGKOK – The Royal Thai Police in Chumphon Province for foiling a cross border elephant tusk smuggling operation, and for arresting a main culprit and...
BANGKOK — From breast-slapping and gold thread face-lifts, to vaginal whitening soaps and olive-oil penis enlargements, image-obsessed Thais are going to ever increasing extremes in...
BANGKOK – Thailand is one of the nation’s favourite overseas holiday destinations – but the popular family playground has a darker side. Figures reveal the...
PHILIPPINES – The U.S Navy minesweeper that grounded on a Philippine reef last week has taken on water and sustained too much damage to be...