BANGKOK – Thailand’s Military Leaders are bracing for the country’s biggest public protests since a coup four months ago, as farmers frustrated by falling prices...
CHIANG RAI – The Mekong River runs more than 4,000 kilometers, from China into Myanmar and then through Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, where it empties...
PHUKET – When you move to a foreign country for the first time there is always going to be something that you miss about home....
THAILAND – A US human rights group is calling on major Western food retailing companies to put pressure on businesses in Thailand after a major...
. . BANGKOK – Despite an aggressive crackdown on drugs, Thailand’s fight against methamphetamines is failing, activists say. With supply and demand rising, these highly addictive...
CHIANG MAI – The two factions vying for control of Thailand came to blows Sunday, as the country’s government warned stolen guns could be used...
BANGKOK — Major international tobacco companies are mounting a legal challenge to Thai health ministry plans to increase graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging. The court...
CHIANG RAI -Thailand’s decision to expand subsidies for Rice and Rubber farmers to quiet protests is undermining efforts to control rising debt, even as governments...
BANGKOK – An incentive program for first-time car buyers in Thailand has backfired with more than 100,000 indebted consumers defaulting, leaving the big global manufacturers...
BEIJING – China and Russia have launched what Beijing described as its “largest ever joint naval exercise” as an armada of military hardware descended on...
MOSCOW – Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong and flown to Russia on a commercial flight on the first leg of a journey into political...
CHIANG RAI – Steel girders jut from the low skyline of the Thai city of Udon Thani near the Laos border as workers lay cement...
CHIANG RAI – Thai people are remarkably relaxed and easy going. Buddhist philosophy discourages ‘hot bloodedness’. Politeness is ingrained from birth and most Thai people...
PATTANI – The Pattani rebellion has been raging in Thailand for years — but what drives these militants? Krue Se Mosque is just outside the...
CHIANGRAI -For many years Chiang Rai has lived in the shadow of it’s older sister city, the big and bustling Chiangmai. Many felt that it had...
BEIJING – China’s naval and paramilitary ships are churning up the ocean around islands it disputes with Tokyo in what experts say is a strategy...
YANGON — The image was meant to convey growing friendship between the United States and Myanmar, currently the world’s hottest frontier market. Flanked by...
Chiangrai Times – Thailand on Wednesday said it was boosting security ahead of an incendiary charter amendment case that could lead to the dissolution of...
Now that Myanmar is opening to the outside world, good luck getting a hotel room. Travelers and eager investors are pouring in to explore one of...
Chiang Rai, like Chiangmai has a very ancient history. It was once a fortified city complete with walls and moats. When the city fathers decided...