Mr Belhaj is the former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a now-dissolved militant organisation that sought to assassinate Gadhafi. Its links with al-Qaeda...
Taylors in Phuket, forced to pay millions of baht in bribes, today lifted the lid on huge corruption payouts that amount to billions of baht each...
CHIANG RAI TIMES – The most notable development of recent weeks was the August 19 meeting between opposition leader and Nobel laureate, Aung San Suu...
From riding elephants to working in fields, touring temples to visiting schools, Amanda Woodard sees Thailand and Cambodia through fresh eyes – those of her...
Twenty-one years ago this summer, a 59-year-old financial adviser from Florida named Jack Gargan began running full-page ads in newspapers around the country decrying a...
Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, and Chon Buri are expected to be the highest growth areas, but less well know destinations are also on the...
A field visit to the site of the proposed Xayaburi Dam has revealed that construction on the dam’s access road and work-camp is rapidly...
Thai authorities have rescued more than a thousand dogs, which were found stuffed into tiny cages and being smuggled out of the country to be...
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of more than a dozen powerful women senators has urged US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to call on the...
Hans was born in Vindegade 54, Sct. Knuds Parish, Odense, on April 3, 1878. Vindegade is a part of one of the very old districts...
Interestingly, Meechai Viravaidya, the family planning and anti-HIV-AIDS activist who received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1994, answers the same question with the same story....
“The entry ban was imposed earlier because German authorities received biased information from the Thai government,” he said. Noppadon claimed that Germany had lifted...
Chiang Rai, the northernmost province in Thailand, has become a major production base for Japanese rice because of its climate and locally developed strains of...
Of all the people who have passed by Tu Sanaroon’s riverfront guesthouse lately, it was the man who knocked on her door in the middle...
Environment groups and local villagers in Burma and Thailand launched a protest against the Mong Koke coal-mining project in eastern Shan State last week. The...
EARLIER this month, China beat Japan in a bid to appoint the head of a new organisation that may one day pave the way for...
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...
Chiangrai, Chian rai, news Mr Choi made his way west as hundreds of North Koreans had done before him, through the great Gobi Desert that extends...
Both the National Westminster Bank and Barclays Bank will no longer send replacement credit cards, debit cards or cheque books to Thailand on the grounds they...
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...