Thailand vowed Monday to crack down on illegal casinos, after a maverick politician accused senior police officers of owning gambling dens in central Bangkok. Six...
Twenty-one years ago this summer, a 59-year-old financial adviser from Florida named Jack Gargan began running full-page ads in newspapers around the country decrying a...
Product designer Jackrayu “Jim” Kongurai knew his sojourn in Sweden would be an eye-opening experience – and the chance of a lifetime. He arrived in...
The city of Chiang Rai is the capital of Chiang Rai province in Northern Thailand. The province, which borders Myanmar (Burma) and Laos, is one...
Hopes that dengue fever may one day be eradicated have been raised by scientists who have discovered how to stop mosquitoes carrying the disease. Groundbreaking...
Thailand’s new government unveiled a revised plan for the country’s high-speed train network on Tuesday, prioritising domestic rail expansion over an ambitious regional connectivity plan...
The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (BOXARG) and embarked 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (13MEU) entered the port of Phuket, Thailand, Aug. 22, as part of a...
Chiang Rai, Thailand: If you’re considering the idea of a new life in Asia but don’t want a big city or, on the other hand, the...
It was late morning in the northern Thai city of Chiang Rai. I’d awoken with a splitting headache, a result of heavy drinking the...
The 28-year-old kickboxer is wanted in Phuket for the alleged murder of former US Marine Dashawn Longfellow in August 2010. British Home Secretary Theresa May...
For 30 years I have maintained a home in a village 30 kilometres north of Chiang Mai. I have watched a multitude of relatives grow...
The USS George Washington aircraft carrier on August 13 arrived in international waters bordering Vietnam’s waters to the north during its visit to several Asia...
In a prize catch, the Mumbai police have succeeded in bringing back alleged fugitive gangster and drug smuggler Santosh Shetty, from Bangkok to Mumbai, within...
A panel of experts in Thailand is expected to release a report this week on what killed an Edmonton man and several other tourists earlier...
CHIANG SAEN, 9 August 2011 (IRIN) – Thailand is fast becoming a transit country for North Koreans fleeing severe food shortages and poverty, authorities say....
Chiang Rai province’s Election Commission reported that in August there will be elections for seven local TAO positions in the province alone. It is estimated...
Interestingly, Meechai Viravaidya, the family planning and anti-HIV-AIDS activist who received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1994, answers the same question with the same story....
In what would have been unheard of not so long ago, the Roar’s A-League success has helped Brisbane secure the Socceroos’ opening World Cup qualifier...
Today the Foreign Office released British Behaviour Abroad 2011, with detailed figures on British nationals in trouble overseas (read: Brits behaving badly abroad). The period...
Yula Suwan, 20, from Chiang Rai slipped off the rocks at Phuket’s iconic peninsula while trying to take photos with a friend. Miss Yula repeatedly...