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...
BANGKOK – Foreign companies have less than two years to benefit from Thailand’s current tax-break structure as the country is changing its incentives in a...
BANGKOK – In a bid to appease angry farmers, Thailand on Monday boosted the price at which the government buys rice from local producers, the...
LAMPANG – Villagers in Wang Nua district of Lampang province have been supplementing their income by panning for gold for generations. It takes a...
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 – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra‘s government approved proposals to reduce the top price at which it buys rice from the country’s farmers to 12,000...
CHIANG RAI – Steel girders jut from the low skyline of the Thai city of Udon Thani near the Laos border as workers lay cement...
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 denied entry to Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy over concerns he would engage in political campaigning in the neighbouring Southeast Asian nation,...
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...
SEOUL — Laos is coming under increasing international criticism for its unusual decision to turn over to the North Korean government nine defectors, most...
CHIANG RAI – Packed tight into wire baskets — sometimes 20 or more to a cage — animal rights activists say as many as 200,000...
SEOUL – Nine North Korean refugees who had escaped from their homeland and made their way to Laos were forcibly repatriated on May 28. The...
MYANMAR – Japan’s industrial investors stayed with Thailand through the army coups, the Bangkok-paralyzing massed Red-Shirt protests, and the mismanaged floods of 2011 that swamped...
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...
BANGKOK—Thailand’s central bank cut its main policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday and said it is ready to implement capital controls...
Bank of Thailand Governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul maintained that the Monetary Policy Committee was under no pressure, despite the renewed attempt by Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong to...
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...