BANGKOK – Danai Ruangsorn, chairman of the Thai Roads Foundation, has said a study, conducted found up to 26,000 people are killed in road accidents...
ABOARD THE USS FREEDOM – The U.S. Navy’s hottest new ship and the centerpiece of its renewed focus on Asia isn’t its largest vessel, or...
PHNOM PENH – Cambodian Ministry of Defense has issued a statement to dismiss Thailand’s allegation that the country has planted landmines at border areas, saying that...
STOCKHOLM – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has invited the Swedish government to invest in Thailand’s logistics and regional transport system, so that Sweden can use...
CHIANGRAI – Thai farmers vowed on Monday to stage a major protest after the government signaled it was weighing a plan to cut rice intervention...
KUNMING – Myanmar drug lord Naw Kham and three of his accomplices, all of whom were convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong...
YANGON — The image was meant to convey growing friendship between the United States and Myanmar, currently the world’s hottest frontier market. Flanked by...
BANGKOK -After a decade of off-and-on availability in Thailand as a partner of Chang beer, Carlsberg has re-entered the local market under a deal with Chang’s...
CHIANGRAI – The planned Xayaburi hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River in Laos promises to disrupt the reproductive cycle of the giant catfish, one of...
CHIANGRAI – In a recent interview Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vanchai Sirichana of Mae Fah Luang University said Students from other Asian countries are better than...
BANGKOK – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Thailand on Thursday, part of a three-country Southeast Asian tour to consolidate business ties in one of...
Adrian Bridge takes a Mekong cruise through Laos, where, despite the encroachment of the modern world, the ‘Mother of Water’ remains the region’s spiritual lifeblood. My...
CHIANGRAI – Many places in Thailand, including Prachinburi, Pitsanulok, Ayudtaya, Petchabun, Muang Nong Bua Lam Phu and MaeSuay, ChiangRai, are “San” shrines (spirit residences) for...
BANGKOK – As Thailand braces itself to combat drug-resistant malaria, a spread of small, nondescript buildings scattered close to corn and rice fields along its...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A Chinese court Wednesday upheld death sentences of four people convicted in the 2011 killing of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong...
BANGKOK – Thailand and Cambodia agreed on Wednesday to implement a single visa agreement, which will enable tourists to obtain one visa to visit both...
CHIANGRAI – Chiang Rai is finding various clever ways to toss off perceptions of it as a northern backwater, not least by becoming a role...
BANGKOK – Global efforts to combat malaria are under threat from new strains of drug-resistant malaria, which are cropping up in Southeast Asia. Over the...
BANGKOK – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Thailand last week wasn’t just about security, infrastructure and investment—the two sides have also cooked up a...
BANGKOK – Global strategic and economic giants intersected in Bangkok early last week, when within hours of the departure of US President Barack Obama, Chinese...