SEOUL – Nine North Korean refugees who had escaped from their homeland and made their way to Laos were forcibly repatriated on May 28. The...
CHIANG RAI – Laos has sent nine North Koreans who fled their totalitarian homeland through China last month back to China, a senior Seoul official said...
BANGKOK – A 17-year-old girl who was helped to leave South Korea after contacting a policeman on Facebook and complaining of forced prostitution will be...
CHIANG RAI – The distance between the North Korean border town of Hyesan and South Korea’s capital Seoul is 440 kilometers (273 mi) as the...
NORTH KOREA – The first time Yoon Hee was abandoned, she was an infant. She was born in a village near North Korea’s sacred Mount Baekdu,...
SEOUL – The Thai Embassy in South Korea has prepared a plan for speedy evacuation of Thais from the country with the recently escalated tension...
NORTH KOREA – Russia has warned of tensions in North Korea slipping out of control, after Pyongyang said it was placing its missile units on...
PYONGYANG – An enraged North Korea responded to new UN sanctions with fresh threats of nuclear war Friday, vowing to scrap peace pacts with South...
PYONGYANG – North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a...
PYONGYANG – Defying UN warnings, North Korea on Tuesday conducted an underground nuclear test in the remote, snowy northeast, taking a crucial step toward its...
PYONGYANG –North Korea’s National Defense Commission says the reclusive state will conduct an “all-out confrontation battle” that will include further satellite and long-range launches, as...
BANGKOK-Months after taking to the skies with Thailand’s first transsexual air crew, fledgling carrier PC Air has suspended services over financial troubles that left passengers...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Silky Shan soup, which yields a chickpea-thickened breakfast comfort food, fish stew with aromatics, and coconut sauce noodles with chicken are characteristic...
Chiangrai Times –A group of seven North Koreans – one male, five women and a child – had been caught illegally entering Thailand from the Mekong River at...
Chiangrai Times– Some Korean embassy staff in Thailand had taken a “high-handed” approach during their treatment of North Korean defectors at a refugee camp there,...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Female staff at the South Korean Embassy in Bangkok are alleged to have used abusive language toward North Korean defectors. Thailand is a...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday, March 23 welcomed her Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper, who was here on a three-day official...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Hundreds of Vietnamese fans have decided to come to Thailand to see US pop diva Lady Gaga’s world tour “Born This Way...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is heading to Asia for the second time in as many months, underscoring his government’s increasing focus...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung on Thursday said he had figured out a way to get ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra home,...