MAE HONG SON – The Mae Hong Son authorities plan to nominate a 119-year old man to the Guinness Book of World Records as Thailand’s...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will investigate the case of embattled Buddhist monk Phra Wirapol Sukphol, better known as Luang Pu Nenkham...
BANGKOK – About a week after a video of Buddhist monks riding a private jet went viral on YouTube, pictures of monks checking out iPhones...
CHIANG MAI — Thai police in the Northern City of Chiang Mai said Wednesday they had arrested two monks for procuring a 14-year-old boy to...
PETALING JAYA – When it comes to searching for Internet pornography, Malaysians appear to have a yen for local material, a study by a sex...
SEOUL — Laos is coming under increasing international criticism for its unusual decision to turn over to the North Korean government nine defectors, most...
CHIANG MAI – There’s a new gang in Chiang Mai, Thailand’s major northern city, and they’re causing quite a ruckus about town. The Rock Mode...
NARATHIWAT – Four suspects have been arrested in connection with an explosion at a Narathiwat hotel in the morning that left six people injured. The...
BANGKOK – Police Maj. Gen. Pisit Paoin, chief of Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division, said in a telephone interview Saturday that Thai police have arrested...
CHIANG RAI – The other day I wrote an article about yet another senseless murder of a Tourist in Thailand. The young man’s name is...
BEIJING – Whitney Foard Small loved China and her job as a regional director of communications for a top automaker. But after air pollution...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s film censors have banned a documentary about the country’s long-running border dispute with neighbouring Cambodia as a threat to national security,...
BANGKOK – Brigitte Bardot has issued an appeal to Thai Premier Yingluck Shinawatra to clamp down on the slaughtering of dogs in illegal abattoirs. In...
BANGKOK – The Embassy of the United States in Thailand is on high alert following the recent explosions at Boston marathon finish line in the...
CHONBURI – Four Cambodian monks have been arrested in Chonburi Province for allegedly soliciting passersby for money were found to be possession of pornography, police...
BANGKOK – Thailand, already Southeast Asia’s most successful nation at luring in foreign film shoots, is ramping up efforts at promoting its exotic settings and...
BANGKOK – A Bangkok Criminal Court has sentenced Private Detective Thanachart, Wiwatthanachart to 50 years in prison and his wife to 10 years as an...
BANGKOK –Thai authorities arrested a 38-year-old man attempting to collect a bag containing 54 ploughshare tortoises (Astrochelys yniphora) and 21 radiated tortoises (Astrochelys radiata) in...
COLOMBO -Sri Lankan authorities have denied a British tourist entry because of his ‘disrespect’ for Buddhism on arrival at the airport. An immigration official at...
BURIRAM – On March 11th a nursing school in Buriram was attacked in the early morning hours by a group of 10 masked men wielding machetes. The...