PYONGYANG – An enraged North Korea responded to new UN sanctions with fresh threats of nuclear war Friday, vowing to scrap peace pacts with South...
BEIGING – China and Russia are buying increasingly powerful surveillance technologies to intercept communications and try to take control of the Internet, a senior U.S....
PHUKET – The Royal Thai Navy yesterday rejected a report by Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post that members of the Thai navy shot dead...
BANGKOK – When Mallika told her parents she was pregnant at 17, they pulled her out of school and ordered her to marry the baby’s...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Worawi Makudi has threatened to take legal action against anyone who brings up past allegations of corruption against him during the election campaign...
PYONGYANG – North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a...
BEIJING – China’s naval and paramilitary ships are churning up the ocean around islands it disputes with Tokyo in what experts say is a strategy...
BANGKOK – European champions Chelsea will lay the foundations for their 2013/2014 season in Thailand, when they visit for the second time in three years,...
PYONGYANG – North Korea vowed Tuesday to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, citing a U.S.-led push for punishing UN sanctions over...
GENEVA – A United Nations investigator called on the United States on Monday to publish its findings on the CIA’s Bush-era program of rendition and...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an...
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...