Adrian Bridge takes a Mekong cruise through Laos, where, despite the encroachment of the modern world, the ‘Mother of Water’ remains the region’s spiritual lifeblood. My...
CHIANGRAI – Many places in Thailand, including Prachinburi, Pitsanulok, Ayudtaya, Petchabun, Muang Nong Bua Lam Phu and MaeSuay, ChiangRai, are “San” shrines (spirit residences) for...
BANGKOK – The Thai Government will take care of Rohingya Muslims in accordance with humanitarian principles, pending an upcoming discussion with the United Nations High...
MYANMAR – Shan rebels, who clashed with government troops in eastern Burma over the weekend, have warned the army to respect the terms of their...
SONGKHLA – Two soldiers were killed and two others wounded Friday in a bombing attack in Thailand’s restive southern province of Pattani, Thai News Agency...
PHUKET – Thai authorities say that they have rescued nearly 700 people from Myanmar’s beleaguered Rohingya minority who were being held by alleged human traffickers...
PHUKET– A boat carrying about 74 asylum seekers from Myanmar’s beleaguered Rohingya minority has been found adrift in the Andaman Sea off the Thai resort...
PHUKET – According to the National Disaster Warning Centre (NDWC), Thailand now has the best warning system in Southeast Asia, eight years after the Andaman...
CHIANGRAI – Businesses in Chiang Rai are calling for a 150km motorway to be built linking the province with Chiang Mai to create a shorter route...
NARATHIWAT— Six people, including a one-year-old girl and two teachers, were gunned down in separate attacks on a teashop and school in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south...
CHIANGRAI– The Committee for the Economic Quadrangle 10 Chambers of Commerce, Northern Thailand said the fourth Friendship Bridge linking Laos and Thailand across the Mekong...
PHUKET – Brett Bean, missing from Phuket, has left his rented bungalow in unusual circumstances, a Phuket neighbor said yesterday. The Swiss man, who wishes...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Spread across the northern reaches of Vietnam, Laos, Burma and Thailand, and into southern China, in a region that has long been...
CHIANGRAI– Opium cultivation in Southeast Asia’s main poppy-growing countries has more than doubled over the past six years driven largely by rising heroin demand in...
BANGKOK– A Pakistani man suspected of killing a Thai woman in Chiang Mai last week has been arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport. Immigration Division 2 police...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A senior Thai official has accused Laos of bowing to pressure from China by allowing casinos in the country but authorities in...
BANGKOK – Several hundred Muslims, many waving banners and shouting “execute people who mock Islam”, rallied outside the US embassy and Google offices in Bangkok...
Chiangrai Times – A notorious ethnic Shan warlord, Naw Kham, has gone on trial in the southern Chinese city of Kunming, charged with the murder...
Chiangrai Times – An American tourist who died in mysterious circumstances in Vietnam alongside her Canadian travelling companion was not poisoned, state-run media reported Tuesday. American...
Chiangrai Times – Thailand and three other member countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), including Laos, Myanmar and China, have joined forces in providing...