MAE HONG SON – Golden umbrellas draped in beads and flowers provide shade for boys as young as seven riding on their fathers’ shoulders in a...
– BANGKOK – The Sangha Supreme Council, the governing body of the Buddhist order of Thailand has ordered senior monks to toughen the vetting procedures for...
– BANGKOK – Under growing pressure from Thailand’s military government, and their own religious bodies, Buddhist monks have launched a fresh round of reforms in recent...
– CHIANG RAI – Chiang Rai vice-governor Sakchai Wongkanit, Chiang Sean District chief officer Pinit Kaewjitkongthong and the ecclesiastical governor of Chiang Saen district have led...
– BANGKOK – Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha addressing Thailand on national television this week, reminded Thai’s to follow the teachings of the Lord Buddha and...
. . MANDALAY – A Dutchman charged with insulting religion in Myanmar for allegedly unplugging an amplifier blasting a late-night Buddhist sermon near his hotel is...
. . YANGON – A 30 year-old Dutch National has been detained in Myanmar for insulting religion after being accused of pulling the plug on a...
. . CHIANG RAI – Buddhists nationwide are making merit in celebration of the Asanha Bucha Day and Buddhist Lent Day this year from 15 –...
. . KACHIN -Â An angry mob of Buddhists in northern Myanmar has burned down a mosque in the second such attack in just over a...
. BANGKOK – Millions of Thai Buddhists today joined together to mark Visakha Bucha Day going to temples across the country offering alms to monks in the...
. . DHAKA – The body of 75-year-old Buddhist Monk Mong Shue U. Chak was found dead Saturday morning with his throat slit in a small monastery...
. . CHIANG RAI – More than 500 Thai and Lao tourists joined an alms-giving event near Mekong River in Tambon Wiang, Chiang Khong district, Chiang...
. . NAKHON PATHOM – On a rural road just after daybreak, villagers young and old kneel reverently before a single file of ochre-robed women, filling...
BANGKOK– Thai Buddhism, much like Thai democracy, is in a state of upheaval. “There is more open crisis in the Sangha than has been seen...
BAAN NA KLUEA – Buddhist monks aren’t really known for dipping into the material world of finance. Phra Subin Paneeto, though, says he felt he...
. NAN -Despite Martial Law in Thailand more that 800 villagers in Mueang Nan, the capital District of Nan Province in Northern Thailand, joined in a...
PHETCHABURI — Alsiya Bakibva, a Russian National has been killed and her young daughter injured after being crushed by a falling boulder the size of...
– = TRAT – Buddhist monk Phra Prasit Jakavaro of Khao Saming district of Trat Province was killed when he tried to chase away a wild elephant...
– – HENAN– A ‘sarira’ discovered along Indo-Nepal border between 1896-98 and given to Thailand by the then British government in India will be presented to...
BANGKOK – Efforts to achieve national reconciliation have been focused upon in the road map of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). The...