BANGKOK – The search for lessons from lost economic decades has led from Japan to the U.S. to Europe. Now the spotlight turns to Thailand...
BANGKOK – According to the JobStreet.com English Language Assessment (JELA) results Singapore workers have the highest average score while Thai workers have the lowest. The...
BEIJING – China and Russia have launched what Beijing described as its “largest ever joint naval exercise” as an armada of military hardware descended on...
YOKOSUKA — About 10,000 sailors and Marines have set sail for the Western Pacific during the past month, gearing up for multinational exercises and port visits...
KUALA LUMPUR – Police in Malaysia have arrested 60 foreigners during a mass raid on an Internet love scam syndicate in Kepong yesterday. ...
SEATTLE – More than six years after a Thai woman killed her ex-boyfriend and poisoned his new female friend with a bottle of pesticide-laced Jägermeister,...
BANGKOK—Thailand’s government took a step toward disclosing the full cost of its rice-price support program, saying it had lost 136 billion baht, or $4.4 billion,...
BANGKOK – It’s not yet clear whether Thailand’s credit-rating is at risk from its multi-billion dollar rice subsidy program, but its credibility is already taking...
NAKHON PHANOM – The Animal Quarantine Center in Nakhon Phanom, north-east Thailand, just a few kilometers away from mountains which outline the border with Laos....
BANGKOK — Thailand’s government is scrambling to assuage worries that the country’s multibillion-dollar rice subsidy program could result in a larger-than-expected loss after Moody’s Investors...
BANGKOK – The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers is “deeply concerned” by the misuse of the lese majeste rules, its president Jacob...
CHIANG RAI – A tense stand-off is unfolding in the South China Sea between a group of Philippine marines and several Chinese naval vessels. The...
HUNAN CHINA – Xinhua News in China has reported that rice believed grown in China’s Hunan Province contains unacceptable traces of cadmium, is the latest...
BANGKOK – Demand for food is set to surge within the region. Can productivity growth keep pace? Is it a Malthusianism catastrophe, or the stuff...
SINGAPORE—A U.S. warship designed for coastal operations pulled into Singapore Thursday for its first-ever Southeast Asian stint, part of American efforts to boost its military...
KHAO YAI – It is one of the most poignant photos I’ve taken during this CITES. We are in Khao Yai (literally, “Big Mountain”), Thailand’s...
ABOARD THE USS FREEDOM – The U.S. Navy’s hottest new ship and the centerpiece of its renewed focus on Asia isn’t its largest vessel, or...
BORNEO – Invasion attempt by a group claiming to be inheritors of the Sulu throne with a 100 strong “army” on Borneo’s Malaysian part, has...
BORNEO – A standoff between Malaysian security forces and armed intruders from the Philippines now in its third week, the death toll rose to 60...
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...