A group of Buddhist scholars have estimated that it will take at 100 years to translate ancient Tibetan Buddhist texts into English. The Buddhist scholars estimated...
Mongkolkit Suksintharanon is the Thai lawmaker who suggests to the Thailand government that legalizing casinos and online gambling is not necessarily a bad idea. He did...
Malaysian Religion minister Zulkifli Mohamad has stirred anger and unrest after saying Malaysia should to arrest and reeducate” transgender people. Domestic activists say it will deal...
Virtual vacations are booming during this time of travel restrictions as tourists try to get a holiday feel as best, they can from home. One way...
The covid-19 crisis has closed schools and universities around the world, but at a Buddhist temple in Thailand’s capital, young novices monks in saffron masks are...
Thailand’s Constitutional Court has ruled a section on abortion of the Criminal Code is unconstitutional because it breaches the principles of equality and liberty. The ruling...
A former abbot of Wat Sa Ket (Golden Mount) has been given a suspended jail term of 36 months and fined 27,000 baht for the embezzlement...
A statement about the visit published on Suu Kyi’s official Facebook page was littered with references to “Mr Shithole” when translated to English. While a headline...
Video of the saffron-robed monk gently trying to push away the cat that crawled into his lap has delighted Thais who viewed the footage on a...
Those, who sell or illegally possess leatherback turtle eggs face 3- 15 years in jail and also a fine of 300,000 to 1.5 million baht.
The novice, identifying himself only as Nat, said the abbot had often called him and ordered him to massage and oral sex. At one stage he...
CHIANG RAI – The living history of northern Thailand feels substantively different from what you’d find in Europe or the Americas. The smaller of the two...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn was officially crowned Saturday amid the splendor of the country’s Grand Palace, taking the central role in an elaborate centuries-old...
BANGKOK – General Anantaporn Kanjanarat, head of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS) has told a press briefing that his agency would co-ordinate...
NEPAL – Nearly Six decades after seizing power in Tibet, Beijing has praised its development efforts and slammed the Dalai Lama’s exile government. The US and...
CHIANG RAI – Thousands of worshipers from Thailand, Myanmar and Lao participated in a pilgrimage to Wat Phra That Doi Tung in Mae Sai district of...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Immigration police in central Thailand have arrested a 32 year-old Ugandan man for illegally entering Thailand and impersonating a Buddhist monk . Immigration...
NAKHON PATHOM – Boodsabann Chanthawong recently joined a growing number of women defying generations of Thai Buddhist tradition by becoming ordained as novice monks at...
CHIANG RAI – Doytibet Duchanee, the son of National Artist Thawan Duchanee who created the Black house Museum in Chiang Rai has revealed to the Media...
KANCHANABURI – A nine-year-old novice Buddhist monk has died after a severe beating by a senior Thai monk who allegedly battered him with a stick...