CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thailand is willing to relinquish its role as the world’s biggest rice exporter as the government prepares to buy grain directly from...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Conservationists expressed surprise yesterday at the announcement that construction of the Xayaburi dam, on the Mekong River in northern Laos, could begin...
Thailand’s plan to pay its rice growers far above market rates is expected to push up prices for the staple that feeds almost half the...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Almost 90 dogs have been rescued from being trafficked to Vietnam and turned into restaurant ingredients. Civil volunteers in Ban Phaeng district...
Dr Pasakorn Akarasewi, director of Thailand’s Bureau of Epidemiology said that the United Nations (UN ) warned of a possible resurgence of the bird flu...
Dog meat traders in north-eastern Thailand are demanding that an export ban to Vietnam be lifted due to its severe impact on the local economy,...
Thailand’s new government unveiled a revised plan for the country’s high-speed train network on Tuesday, prioritising domestic rail expansion over an ambitious regional connectivity plan...
A field visit to the site of the proposed Xayaburi Dam has revealed that construction on the dam’s access road and work-camp is rapidly...
Thai authorities have rescued more than a thousand dogs, which were found stuffed into tiny cages and being smuggled out of the country to be...
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of more than a dozen powerful women senators has urged US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to call on the...
CHIANG SAEN, 9 August 2011 (IRIN) – Thailand is fast becoming a transit country for North Koreans fleeing severe food shortages and poverty, authorities say....
Thailand’s northern provinces on Saturday are in preparation for possible floods from the upcoming tropical storm ‘Nock-Ten’ which is forecast to move into Thailand after...
Research In Motion (RIM) announced their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will be launched in Thailand on July 22, 2011. This announcement comes after the 30 day...
Over the three days from July 15 to 17, 2011, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (YMC) will join Thai Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (TYM) and Thailand’s...
Currently, Subaru vehicles sold locally are more pricey than comparable rival models because they are imported from Japan and face higher taxes. Subaru is preparing to...
Three British teenagers have died in a bus accident in Thailand, where they were taking a gap year travel before starting college this fall. Two...
The Meteorological Department on Friday morning issued a warning for people in the North and Northeast to prepare for widespread scattered rain with heavy falls in...
Villagers in this poverty-stricken farming communities are passionate about their food, especially the traditional varieties of fermented fish that one aficionado describes as tasting like...
When Thailand scrambled two years ago for a vaccine to fight the H1N1 pandemic that spread quickly across the world, health authorities hit a roadblock faced...
Las Vegas China’s business-related inroads into the Mekong region bordering Thailand have advanced dramatically with the first-phase construction of a Chinese-run tax-free city on the Laotian...