CHIANGRAI – Anti-drug officers will intensify their crackdown on opium poppy plantations near the northern border with Myanmar after rising demand for heroin in Thailand...
PHUKET – Murder suspect Hungarian National Lajos Kvalka is denying any involvement in the grisly murder of a countryman, Peter Reisz in a Phuket home. Lajos...
BANGKOK – Lost in Thailand, a small-budget comedy made with only 20 million yuan (US$3.1 million), has become a dark horse in the competitive year-end...
BANGKOK – A Thai animal protection group on Friday protested outside the German embassy in Bangkok against a German national Gert Alfred Grewewho stabbed a...
BALI – Lindsay Sandiford, 56, faces 15 years in jail after £1.6m worth of cocaine was allegedly found in her luggage. Prosecutors in Indonesia are...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s ”Mr Condom”, Mechai Viravaidya, who has saved millions of lives by raising awareness of HIV/AIDS, says his country is facing a...
BANGKOK – Across Thailand, ubiquitous Starbucks and McDonald’s outlets have become much more than a place for a quick coffee or a hamburger. Outlets are increasingly...
BANGKOK – After three years in Thai prison, John M. Johansen is back in Norway to celebrate Christmas but it’s only a matter of time...
BANGKOK – A Thai court on Thursday ordered the extradition of fugitive Italian banker Vito Roberto Palazzolo found guilty of laundering money for some of Italy’s...
BANGKOK – Global efforts to combat malaria are under threat from new strains of drug-resistant malaria, which are cropping up in Southeast Asia. Over the...
BANGKOK – Thailand and Cambodia agreed to prepare a joint mine clearance plan by February next year in order to de-mine at necessary areas in...
BANGKOK– The World Bank (WB) has adjusted Thailand’s economic growth this year from 4.5 percent to 4.7 percent and positively forecast a 5 percent expansion...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The long arm of the law has reached halfway across the world to nab a Long Island man who the feds say...
TRAT – Carsten Denbigh who was hospitalised after he went on a drinking binge following a split with his girlfriend has been found dead in...
CHONBURI – An office Christmas party in Chonburi erupted into chaos, after a mass brawl commenced that saw 30 people injured. The Christmas party for Auto-Alliance Thailand...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Government’s free WiFi service will cover 80 % of the country by May next year, according to Anudith Nakornthap, Minister of the...
BANGKOK – Germany, represented by Formula One world champions Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher, won the Race of Champions team crown for the sixth successive...
BANGKOK – Three-time Formula One World champion Sebastian Vettle of Germany was non-committal about the possibility of a Thailand F1 Grand Prix, as he made...
THAILAND SOUTH -A teachers’ association in insurgency-plagued southern Thailand said hundreds of schools would be closed on Thursday and Friday after two teachers were shot...
KHON KAEN – Three teenage girls, one aged only 13, have been arrested for putting two sisters, aged only nine and 11, out to prostitution...