CHIANG RAI – A summit of four countries bordering the Mekong River has led to calls for greater cooperation managing the river’s vital water resources....
SAKON NAKHON – Police in northeastern Thailand made a grisly discovery last week. Abandoned in a forest near the border with Laos were hundreds of...
HANOI – Activists have urged Cambodia and Vietnam to use the Mekong River Commission’s second high-level summit this weekend to take a stand against a controversial...
LAOS – With time running short before Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam enters its final, potentially irreversible stages of construction, a group of NGOs has made...
SOUTH CHINA SEA – The Philippine government vessel made a dash for shallow waters around the disputed reef in the South China Sea, evading two...
KUALA LAMPUR – Even if searchers are able to miraculously pluck Malaysia Airlines flight 370’s “black box” from the depths of the vast Indian Ocean,...
SAKON NAKHON – Hundreds of dog skins have been found dumped in an area of northeastern Thailand notorious for exporting canine parts as a delicacy...
SONGKLA – At least two groups of more than 330 foreign Muslims trafficked through Thailand were on their way to be trained abroad as terrorists...
SEPANG – Malaysia turned the search for Flight 370 into a criminal investigation on Saturday, after the prime minister declared in a news conference that...
BANGKOK—When SAIC Motor Corp. announced plans to make cars in Thailand by 2014, it was seen as a significant move by the Chinese auto industry...
THAILAND – More than 10,000 wild animals have been seized from illegal trade during the past year, the national wildlife protection agency said yesterday. Sunda...
LAOS – Australian Scientist and Professor, Philip Hirsch is leading a call for Laos to halt a planned hydro-electric dam on the Mekong River that...
BANGKOK – Thailand produces about 20-21 million tonnes (mt) of milled rice and India processes 23-24 mt of sugar annually. The largest single denominator between...
THAILAND – The Royal Thai Police reported today that five wild tiger cubs were seized along with hundreds of other animals being smuggled to neighbouring...
TOKYO– Japan has vowed to continue assisting five Southeast Asian countries in the Mekong sub-region in building infrastructure and developing the regional economy towards the...
BANGKOK – Thailand, once the world’s biggest exporter, is short of funds to help growers under Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s 2011 program to buy the...
BANGKOK – Economists are warning of slower economic growth in Thailand while the country is gripped by political unrest. The U.S. ratings agency Fitch warns...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s political stalemate is cutting into foreign car makers sales and undermining the appeal of Southeast Asia’s largest auto-production hub. At least half...
KHON KAEN – As election day approaches in Thailand, supporters of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra vow to take to the barricades in her defence. Clad in...
The three men were carrying 214 plastic baskets from their car to the Mekong River the provincial seat’s Pako subdistrict NONG KHAI – Police and...