BANGKOK – French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault yesterday discussed trade, investment and cooperation opportunities with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in all areas of mutual interest...
KHAO PRATUBCHANG – Thailand wants to shed its image as a place where many types of wildlife — turtles from Madagascar, marmoset monkeys from...
CHIANGRAI – Chiang Rai’s travel industry, aided by the PATA chapter, has been campaigning for foreign airlines to consider direct services. There have been talks...
BANGKOK — Recent revelations about massive economic losses resulting from widespread illegal activities in Thailand are alarming indeed, but unfortunately not surprising. The Anti-Corruption Organization...
BANGKOK – According to the Nation Newspaper an average of US$6.42 billion (Bt192.6 billion) a year illegally flowed out of Thailand between 2001 and 2010...
CHIANGMAI – The government plans to launch the bidding for the country’s first high-speed train route linking Bangkok with Chiang Mai by this September. The...
PYONGYANG –North Korea’s National Defense Commission says the reclusive state will conduct an “all-out confrontation battle” that will include further satellite and long-range launches, as...
BANGKOK – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Thailand on Thursday, part of a three-country Southeast Asian tour to consolidate business ties in one of...
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– Nokia has launched the cheapest WP8 Lumia, Lumia 620 in Thailand. China was the first country to get Lumia 620 on sale. The price at...
Teens wearing fake orthodontic braces. BANGKOK – The fake braces trend is a fashion statement gaining popularity among youth in Asia that can kill...
BANGKOK – The new Cambodian and Thai visa arrangement is a PR stunt to conceal the fact that seven years of negotiations over common Asean...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Make no mistake. Tigers have gone extinct in Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Singapore, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the islands of Bali...
CHIANGRAI – The police have confiscated more than 25 million baht worth of assets belonging to Naw Kham, a former drug lord who has been...
BANGKOK – As Thailand braces itself to combat drug-resistant malaria, a spread of small, nondescript buildings scattered close to corn and rice fields along its...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – A Chinese court Wednesday upheld death sentences of four people convicted in the 2011 killing of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong...
BANGKOK – Thailand and Cambodia agreed on Wednesday to implement a single visa agreement, which will enable tourists to obtain one visa to visit both...
CHIANGRAI – Chiang Rai is finding various clever ways to toss off perceptions of it as a northern backwater, not least by becoming a role...
BANGKOK – Department of Special Investigation (DSI) officers seized love drugs and sex toys worth about 10 million baht from a warehouse and seven stalls...