BANGKOK — Thailand has denied it will pay former British prime minister Tony Blair $640,000 to speak at an upcoming government-sponsored forum in Bangkok on...
PHRAE – Internet Giant Google’s Street View project, which has raised privacy concerns in several countries, has ignited a minor uproar in Phrae when villagers...
BANGKOK – Thousand’s of Thai protesters have gathered in the Thai capital, Bangkok, to rally against the government and divisive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra,...
SAMUT SAKHON- A Thai court has recently backed protests by a local community, ordering the closure of a coal company. However, victory was bitter-sweet, with one...
Smuggling of rice appears to be rampant. CHIANG RAI – Hidden in 18-wheeler trucks, carts and pick-up vans, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rice...
BANGKOK – In a bid to appease angry farmers, Thailand on Monday boosted the price at which the government buys rice from local producers, the...
BANGKOK — Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday became the first woman to head the kingdom’s defense ministry in a cabinet reshuffle that gives her...
Fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden is expected to try to fly to Cuba on Monday MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister bluntly rejected U.S. demands...
CHIANG RAI – Thai authorities are quietly stepping up precautionary measures and collecting intelligence information on anti-government activism in Bangkok and the provinces for fear that...
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 – The masked protesters are the latest development in an ongoing fight for political control Mim Putita, a student living in Bangkok, had never...
CHIANG RAI – Packed tight into wire baskets — sometimes 20 or more to a cage — animal rights activists say as many as 200,000...
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...
BANGKOK – Italian photographer Fabio Polenghi killed while covering the Thai military’s crackdown on anti-government protesters in Bangkok three years ago was shot by a...
YANGON – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has forgiven billions of dollars of Burmese debt and promised new aid. Analysts said despite China being its...
BANGKOK– Thailand’s deputy prime minister, Chalerm Yubamrung, plans to introduce a contentious amnesty bill into parliament on Thursday that will stoke new political tensions three...
BANGKOK – Around 12,000 Red Shirt protesters rallied in Bangkok Sunday to mark the third anniversary of a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests which exposed Thailand’s...
MYANMAR – Authorities in Myanmar say they are increasingly wary of a potential threat from Islamic radicals as militants beyond its borders begin taking up...
BANGKOK – It was one of those moments that investors and analysts in Thailand have been waiting for: insight into the government’s massive Bt2,000bn ($68bn)...
CHIANG RAI – In the hill tribe villages of northern Thailand, no door (or kitchen) is closed to a stranger in need. The mountainous province of...