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 ...
UTTARADIT – An express train derailed on Saturday in a 382m-long tunnel while heading for northern Thai tourist town of Chiang Mai with 415...
RAYONG – Workers in white suits used buckets to scoop up globs of crude oil blackening the once white sands and emerald waters of a...
Geraldine O’Callaghan, 45, from Ramsgate BANGKOK – Thailand has a reputation as a hedonistic holiday destination famed for its parties, beaches and the backpacker...
BANDUNG – The owner of a Nazi-themed cafe in central Indonesia said Monday he has decided to permanently close down amid intense pressure from home...
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...
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...
KASHMIR – Sarah Groves, 24, from Guernsey, was found stabbed to death in the floating hotel she had been staying at for up to two...
PITSANULOK – Five people died, including a seven-month-old baby and a Belgian woman, and 53 were injured when a Thai tour bus plummeted off a...
PATTAYA – Police arrested two young men yesterday who allegedly assaulted a 58-year-old British Expat Stuart Moses Levy in Pattaya. The incident was captured on...
CHIANGRAI – Residents of the Ban mai market area in Chiang Rai city alerted police that a Foreigner (German) was standing on the road side...
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 – Police on Wednesday arrested two women and charged them with human trafficking and attempting to pimp an 11-year-old Cambodian girl at Soi Cowboy,...
CHIANGRAI– It wasn’t that long ago that throughout Southeast Asia the term Golden Triangle was associated with just one thing: opium trafficking. For those fighting...