BANGKOK – Customs officials have confiscated 28 pieces of ivory weighing about 41kg in total, with a street value of over 4 million baht at...
– LOS ANGELES – For more than 60 years, Harry Dean Stanton played crooks and codgers, eccentrics and losers. He endowed them with pathos and compassion...
– BANGKOK – Police and Social Workers have rescued a one-year-old boy after a video clip of his mother hanging him briefly to get the attention...
– BANGKOK – Canadian Alexandre Cazes who was found hanging from a bath towel in the wake of an apparent suicide was at the centre of...
– BEIRUT – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had “confirmed information” that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has...
– HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is planning a big party as it marks 20 years under Chinese rule. But many people in the former...
– MANILA – Philippine military chief of staff Gen. Eduardo Ano told reporters today that Philippine marines have killed an Abu Sayyaf extremist commander and...
– NEW YORK – Seattle rockers Pearl Jam, the late rapper Tupac Shakur and 1970s hit-making band Journey were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall...
– KHON KAEN – Police seized 530 kilogrammes of compressed marijuana with a street value of 7 million baht after chasing a pickup truck in Nam...
. . PHAYAO – Thai transgender activist Nada Chaiyajit completed her undergraduate studies in August, and two months later, school officials told her 12 classmates –...
. . PATTAYA – Police in Pattaya are investigating the death of a Malaysian man after he fell to his death from a condominium building in...
. . BERLIN – Searching the cab of the tractor-trailer that plowed through a Christmas market in Berlin, the authorities made two startling discoveries: a badly...
CHUMPHON – The Royal Thai Police and Narcotics Suppression Officers on Friday revealed a record half-tonne seizure of crystal methamphetamine, as authorities target a key overland...
. . HONIARA – A tsunami forecasted to hit areas of the South Pacific Ocean following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Solomon Islands has...
. . BANGKOK – Thailand’s new king on Friday made his first public appearance since ascending the throne the previous day, ending a period of uncertainty...
. . HAVANNA – Fidel Castro’s who ruled for nearly five decades and split many a Cuban family between exile and solidarity with the communist revolution...
. . YANGON – A self-proclaimed sorcerer who allegedly beat three children to death in an exorcism ritual appeared in a Rangoon court on Friday, telling...
. . BANGKOK – Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Prajin Juntong met with representatives from Internet giant Google, amid growing calls from Thai hardline royalists to bring...
. . KURAYOSHI – A powerful 6.6 magnitude earthquake in Kurayoshi, Japan knocked loose roof tiles, toppled store shelves and caused power outages Friday afternoon, but...
. . KOH SAMUI – A 43 year-old Thai woman accused of insulting the country’s late king was forced to kneel before his portrait at a...