JAKARTA – The Supreme Court in Indonesia has jailed a Muslim woman who tried to report her employer for alleged sexual harassment. Indonesia’s all Male Muslim...
KUALA LUMPUR – Hollywood producer of the blockbuster “The Wolf of Wall Street” starring Leonardo DiCaprio has been arrested in Malaysia on suspicion of money...
Forex is big business. Approximately $5 trillion worth of currency is traded each day mostly by large banks and financial institutions. In the past, you needed...
PHUKET – Tourists stand on the shoreline, scanning the cloud-free skies for approaching aircraft, some looking at their phones for flight data on Phuket’s Mai Khao...
BANGKOK – As the debacle over mandatory health insurance for expats staying in Thailand on Non-Immigrant O-A “Retirement” visas continues to unfold, Bangkok Insurance Brokers Co...
LONDON – The central theme of the U.S. case against Huawei is the company’s alleged links with the Chinese state. These links include national security and...
BANGKOK – Asia-Pacific nations pledged at talks in Bangkok on Friday to take steps, including legal reforms, to tackle statelessness, a key issue in the region....
NEW YORK – In light of the U.S. administration’s export ban on Chinese telecom giant Huawei, mobile carriers around the world have announced that they would...
NEW YORK – A U.S. businessman friend of mine who works in China remarked to me recently that Donald Trump is not the American president America...
BEIJING – China has expanded its ban on Wikipedia to block the community-edited online encyclopedia in all available languages, the BBC reports. An earlier enforced ban...
BANGKOK – A father who was over his head in debt has killed his wife, 25, and two young children, then slashed his own throat at...
DHAKA – Hundreds of protesters gathered in Bangladesh‘s capital of Dhaka on Friday to demand justice for an 18-year-old Muslim school girl who died after being...
PHUKET – Thailand’s Navy accompanied by police have raided a floating home in the Andaman Sea belonging to an American man and his Thai partner who...
CHIANG RAI – Unhealthy smog levels are again being recorded in nine northern provinces and a central plains province, with the worst air again in Chiang...
BANGKOK – On March 24 Thailand’s elections produced a few surprises — including the success of a new party, the Future Forward Party (FFP). FFP is...
CHIANG RAI – The Pollution Control Department (PCD) under the Ministry of Public Health reports that the Northern region of Thailand has been suffering from dangerous...
CHRISTCHURCH – At least 49 Muslims were shot to death at two mosques during midday prayers Friday — most if not all of them gunned down...
BANGKOK – A new Thailand cybersecurity law went into effect recently, and is controversial more for what it doesn’t specify than what it does. As it...
BANGKOK – People who are wishing to use marijuana (cannabis) for medicinal purposes in Thailand can now register for legal possession without being punished. Health ministerial...
BANGKOK – After the beauty dust has settled and the glitter is wiped away, it seems all is not well with the latest Miss Universe Pageant...