CHIANG RAI – The Mekong River runs more than 4,000 kilometers, from China into Myanmar and then through Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, where it empties...
BANGKOK – Two Pakistan Nationals,Shahzad Nazeer Butt, 46, and Khawaja Rizwan Haleem, 32, arrested in a sting in Thailand have been accused of forging passports...
CHIANG MAI – A threatened booze crackdown hasn’t materialized yet, but it speaks of a moral tension in the so-called Land of Smiles Earlier this week,...
CHIANG RAI – The Police and Army in Chiang Rai province have joined together in an operation to bust a drug trafficking network believed to...
PATTAYA – Thailand’s most sinful city, Pattaya is famous for getting men a little hot under the collar. And discontent is boiling over at the...
– – Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Testimony Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific...
PHNOM PENH – Six undocumented Cambodian migrants and their driver died in a car crash on Saturday night, officials said, making them the first confirmed...
Illegal workers detained in Chiang Mai before being released. (Photo by Cheewin Sattha) CHIANG MAI — A heavy crackdown on undocumented migrants in Thailand...
BANGKOK – The Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has announced Royal Thai Police seized almost six tonnes of compressed cannabis in two linked raids...
VIENTIANE – Like many girls in Laos, where almost one-third of the population lives below the poverty line, Vahn* was desperate to earn money for...
BANGKOK – Sex among prison inmates is controlled in Thailand under strict regulations, but inevitably there is involvement between individuals and the issue needs to...
SATUN – After a two-hour trek through swamp and jungle, Police Major General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot halts in a trash-strewn clearing near Thailand’s remote border with...
BANGKOK – At least seven people were killed and 19 others injured on Wednesday when workers at a scrapyard in Bangkok tried to pierce...
PHNOM PENH – Cambodia is expecting an influx of regional tourists next year when the ASEAN Economic Community is set in motion. The integration is...
BANGKOK – Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Thai Prime Minister, a business tycoon of Chinese origin, committed the most unforgivable crime in the eyes of the...
. . BANGKOK – Despite an aggressive crackdown on drugs, Thailand’s fight against methamphetamines is failing, activists say. With supply and demand rising, these highly addictive...
BANGKOK – It has gone quiet in Bangkok, as the people who have been trying to overthrow the government tidy up the debris that litters...
A Thailand Immigration Police van carries a group of Rohingya Muslims to a port outside Ranong city October 30, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew RC Marshall – THAILAND –...
At popular eatery Nam Ngiew Pa Suk in Chiang Rai, where “Northern noodles” reign supreme, bowls of the garnet-colored dish, in pork or beef versions...
CHIANG RAI – You could say it was an excursion to see how the other half lives. You know the “haves” of this world as...