BANGKOK – National Security Council chief Paradorn Pattanathabutr said yesterday Thailand is to start peace talks with Muslim rebel groups operating in the south, signalling...
PATTAYA – As part of this year’s Cobra Gold multinational military exercise, a drill to practice the emergency evacuation and transportation of Japanese nationals during...
BALI – The British consulate in Bali submitted a statement to the appeal by Lindsay Sandiford, 56, from Gloucestershire. The UK Foreign Office also said...
PYONGYANG – Defying UN warnings, North Korea on Tuesday conducted an underground nuclear test in the remote, snowy northeast, taking a crucial step toward its...
CHIANGRAI – Thai jasmine rice, also known as “Khao Hom Mali Thung Kula Ronghai,” will become the first product in Southeast Asia to be registered...
CHONBURI — Burma’s armed forces are for the first time participating in a United States-led military exercise in Thailand. Known as “Cobra Gold”, it is...
While the great majority of Thai people have experienced rapid development, millions of people, including stateless people and undocumented migrant workers, have not reaped these benefits,”...
TOKYO – If Chinese warships escalate from locking-on radars to actually pulling the trigger in the East China Sea, they’ll have lots to shoot at...
CHIANGRAI – Reports of the United Wa State Army (UWSA)’s preparations to build a dam over the Kok that flows from Burma’s Shan State into...
CHIANGRAI – The planned Xayaburi hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River in Laos promises to disrupt the reproductive cycle of the giant catfish, one of...
KHAO PRATUBCHANG – Thailand wants to shed its image as a place where many types of wildlife — turtles from Madagascar, marmoset monkeys from...
BANGKOK – The Culture Minister Sonthaya Khunploem said on Monday that the Culture Watch Center is working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in an...
VIETNAM – In a stunning reversal of course Wednesday, the Vietnamese government freed US pro-democracy activist Nguyen Quoc Quan after nine months in a Saigon...
BANGKOK – According to the Nation Newspaper an average of US$6.42 billion (Bt192.6 billion) a year illegally flowed out of Thailand between 2001 and 2010...
BANGKOK – French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, accompanied by his spouse Madam Brigitte Ayrault, will pay an official visit to Thailand on 4-5 February 2013...
BANGKOK – Immigration Police have so far detained over 1,300 Rohingyas; while the Defense Minister revealed that up to 4,000 Rohingyas have been picked up...
PYONGYANG –North Korea’s National Defense Commission says the reclusive state will conduct an “all-out confrontation battle” that will include further satellite and long-range launches, as...
YANGON – Myanmar is still recruiting and using child soldiers, despite embracing democratic reforms and a U.N. agreement to end the practice, a human rights...
BANGKOK – The United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay today condemned the harsh conviction of an editor and activist in Thailand for publishing two...
BANGKOK – A Thailand criminal court convicted Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, the editor of the now-defunct Voice of Taksin magazine to 11 years in jail on Wednesday...