– – 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...
BANGKOK – Two years ago a group of around 100 villagers from provinces in the north and northeast of Thailand arrived outside the Thai Administrative...
Former actor and model Chatchaya Cuesta Ramos, better known as Yuyee, sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Criminal Court on Thursday for smuggling cocaine...
BANGKOK – Many adults and children in Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam have a limited understanding of what constitutes child sexual abuse and how...
CHIANG MAI – Thailand’s anti-corruption agency is to investigate the assets of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and four members of her cabinet involved in a...
CHIANG RAI – Cultivation of opium in Southeast Asia’s notorious Golden Triangle region has doubled in the past decade, according to an in-depth study that...
CHIANG RAI – Poppy cultivation has rapidly expanded in the Myanmar and Laos parts of the Golden Triangle, to feed new demands for heroin, chiefly in...
RANGOON — Burma continues to be a production hub for methamphetamine, which is smuggled from Shan State into neighboring countries and feeds an increasing Asian...
CHIANG RAI – China has warned that illicit drugs pose “a significant and growing” threat to the Greater Mekong Sub-region and has called for greater...
BALI – British National Anne-Marie Drozdz has been discovered murdered in a Bali villa. Detectives said 49-year-old Anne-Marie Drozdz was found on the floor of...
BANGKOK – The Thai women’s national football team has made an historic achievement by defeating Vietnam 2-1 in the 2014 AFC Women’s Asian Cup yesterday...
CHIANG RAI – Thailand will remain the second largest trading partner of Myanmar for the foreseeable future as cheaper goods from top-ranked China continue to...
CHIANG RAI – New visa restrictions could create headaches for travelers and expats who relied on Thailand’s easy border run policies to stay in the...
It’s a terrifying thought that even in a world rattled by 9/11, planes can still vanish without a trace. Though the search effort for MH370...
CHIANG RAI – A Golden Triangle Triathlon that links three Mekong region countries, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, is scheduled for 3 to 4...
BANGKOK – Dog leather … it’s soft, fine-textured and readily distinguishable from other leathers due to its foul smell and scars, says Chanin Chitkomut, who...
BANGKOK – Twenty-two kilograms of elephant tusks have been confiscated at Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Customs House Office authorities have arrested a Cambodian man who was...
PHNOM PEHN – Charlene Savarino a 19 year old French Citizen and two other foreigners are facing facing a life sentence on heroin-trafficking charges in...
BANGKOK – More than 400 suspected Uighurs from China, including young children, have been apprehended in Thailand in recent weeks and are waiting to find...
BANGKOK — All it took was a taste test for Iraq to lift its months-long ban on Thai rice exporters, according to Thailand’s foreign trade...