BANGKOK – Thailand’s baht fell to a five-month low after foreign funds pulled money from local assets amid speculation the government will take steps to...
BANGKOK – Thailand Immigration Officials said Tuesday that it was unable to find any other country willing to accept about 2,000 Rohingya refugees from neighboring...
Rangers examine drugs recovered from raid CHIANG RAI – The Rangers Task Force 31 has shot and killed a drug courier with 290,000 methamphetamine...
MYANMAR – Japan’s industrial investors stayed with Thailand through the army coups, the Bangkok-paralyzing massed Red-Shirt protests, and the mismanaged floods of 2011 that swamped...
BANGKOK – Last Thursday while Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his residence and urging Japan to...
RAYONG -Thailand is facing fresh allegations of using slave labour in its fishing industry with the launch of a new investigation into the sale, abuse...
Bank of Thailand Governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul maintained that the Monetary Policy Committee was under no pressure, despite the renewed attempt by Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong to...
BANGKOK – A 17-year-old girl who was helped to leave South Korea after contacting a policeman on Facebook and complaining of forced prostitution will be...
CHIANG RAI – Anantara Hotels, Resorts and Spas has announced the highly popular King’s Cup Elephant Polo tournament in the royal seaside town of Hua...
BANGKOK – The first session of the Thailand-United Kingdom Strategic Dialogue was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok, on 20 May 2013. The...
CHIANG RAI – The new Golden Triangle permanent border checkpoint in Chiang Rai’s Chiang Saen district – which has just been opened is seen as...
PHUKET – The Phuket News has reported that a Phuket Taxi driver was accused today of molesting a 19-year-old Chinese tourist during a five hour...
RUSSIA – Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived on Sunday at the Russian seaport city of Kaliningrad to inspect the testing progress of a...
MYANMAR – In the Western stereotype, Buddhists are meditating pacifists who strive to keep their distance from worldly passions. But last month, more than 40...
PHNOM PENH – Cambodian environmentalist Chut Wutty was killed during an investigation into illegal logging in the country’s arcane Cardamom Mountains. A year on, his...
IOWA USA – The first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked...
TAK – Since the day she was born, 20-year-old Naw Lawnadoo has known almost nothing of the world beyond the fence and guard posts that...
BANGKOK – Narongrit Suksarn an Infamous hacker turned himself in to police yesterday denied having anything to do with hacking into the PM’s Office website...
CHIANG RAI – Thai people are remarkably relaxed and easy going. Buddhist philosophy discourages ‘hot bloodedness’. Politeness is ingrained from birth and most Thai people...
BANGKOK – For more than a decade, a sprawling wildlife refuge south of Bangkok has been rehabilitating and caring for animals abandoned or abused by...