Foreign travellers crossing the border at Tachilek are forced to deposit their passports with Myanmar’s immigration officers and retrieve them on their return. CHIANG RAI ...
RAYONG – Workers in white suits used buckets to scoop up globs of crude oil blackening the once white sands and emerald waters of a...
BANGKOK – The Royal Thai Police in Bangkok have arrested three Turks wanted on warrants for robbery in central Bangkok on Sunday. Officers seized their...
PHUKET – Australian Citizens John Edward Cohen and Adam Lewis Shea who faced attempted murder charges over a shooting incident on the Thai resort island...
BANGKOK – The first session of the Thailand-United Kingdom Strategic Dialogue was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok, on 20 May 2013. The...
BANGKOK – Authorities in Thailand are considering setting up special fast-track ‘tourist courts’ in an attempt to boost confidence in the country. The proposal follows a...
CHIANG RAI – Thai people are remarkably relaxed and easy going. Buddhist philosophy discourages ‘hot bloodedness’. Politeness is ingrained from birth and most Thai people...
CHIANG RAI – A long list of attacks on women in several countries says be careful, Bali is often thought of as a paradise on...
PHUKET – Police on this tourist island arrested 30 Russians in raids at a Patong bay nightlife zone, the local online news service Phuketwan reported yesterday....
CHIANG RAI – In Bangkok Khao San and Silom roads and the CentralWorld shopping centre were among the favourite places for Songkran revelers. In...
BANGKOK – The first high-speed train line from Bangkok to Pattaya is expected to begin by 2018 after the government opens a bid to build...
CHIANGRAI – Smuggling the world’s largest land animal across an international border sounds like a mammoth undertaking, but activists say that does not stop traffickers...
BANGKOK – Thailand has long been ranked as one of the world’s best tourist destinations, with so many awards under its belt. However, the Kingdom’s...
BANGKOK – The new Cambodian and Thai visa arrangement is a PR stunt to conceal the fact that seven years of negotiations over common Asean...
SURAT THANI -A 23-year-old British tourist Stephen Ashton has been killed by a stray bullet during a fight involving a group of Thai men in...
RAYONG: Police on Thursday arrested a 42-year-old man on charges of raping a German tourist in his liquor shop in Klaeng district of this eastern...
BANGKOK – Thailand and Cambodia agreed on Wednesday to implement a single visa agreement, which will enable tourists to obtain one visa to visit both...
BANGKOK – According to Saowanee Khomepatr, a director at the Thai Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, Australia needs to do more to prevent...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Jack Cole and April Clifton, both 21 from Bath, were enjoying a romantic stroll towards a boat pier in Ao Nang, in...
THAILAND – Twenty schoolchildren surround a city bus in central Bangkok. Some get on to confront a 16-year-old from a rival school and, within moments,...