NORTH KOREA – The first time Yoon Hee was abandoned, she was an infant. She was born in a village near North Korea’s sacred Mount Baekdu,...
BANGKOK – Police Maj. Gen. Pisit Paoin, chief of Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division, said in a telephone interview Saturday that Thai police have arrested...
CHIANG RAI – In the hill tribe villages of northern Thailand, no door (or kitchen) is closed to a stranger in need. The mountainous province of...
PATTAYA – Former Capitol Records executive Tim Carr 57 has been found dead by police in his rented Pattaya City Apartment. Carr was discovered by...
BANGKOK — Winai Sawaengkarn closes his eyes before reaching into a wooden box and drawing a black card. He beams, and his watching mother sweeps...
PHUKET – A British expat resident Clare Bickerton insists that she spotted missing American surfer Brett Bean on a street in Phuket four days after...
CHIANGRAI – Lao Eur, a 46-year-old farmer in Thailand’s northern mountains, remembers a time when the local forests were lush and he had abundant water...
BANGKOK – Her dream was to look less Thai and more like Jennifer Lopez, so the 25-year-old street food vendor went to the Internet and typed...
Chiangrai Times – Thailand Customs Officials have arrested an Indian national after reportedly finding 10 kilograms of ephedrine chemical in two of his big-sized travel...
Chiangrai Times – Three Turkish Men have been arrested for using counterfeit credit cards at ATMs in Bangkok, causing damages of over Bt100 million, according...
Chiangrai Times – Iranian Citizen Racho Boroman has been arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport for allegedly smuggling about four kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, or ice, into Thailand,...
Chiangrai Times– Manufacturing Expo 2012 is one of the most highly-anticipated machinery and technology, parts sourcing, and networking event of the manufacturing and supporting industries in ASEAN especially...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Timothy John Ward ”SHARKY” is a man of contrasts. In March he made international headlines after stabbing a Canadian tourist Shaun Ohonny,...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Police have seized more than one million methamphetamine pills, or yaba, with a street value of over 300 million baht, and arrested...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thai New Year revellers started the Songkran water splashing festival with making merit in a morning alms-giving ceremony and the water fights...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The South African Embassy in Bangkok has warned potential South African drug smugglers that it can do little to help them if...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A joint drug suppression operation of policed and military personnel confiscated over 4 million methamphetamine pills smuggled into Thailand’s northern border province...
Bangkok officials began paying residents to clear trash after doctors reported more cases of a potentially lethal rat-linked disease in flood-stricken areas. The municipal government...
Facing death if caught, for a measly 5,000 baht, drug mules swim across the Mekong river from Laos with loads of methamphetamines. The illegal...
With no money or identity documents and stranded in a foreign land for days on end without food and water, they are the forgotten people...