BANGKOK – A Thai Video Vendor Akachai Hongkangwan has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison Thursday for selling video CDs of...
TRANG – A total of 14 Burmese nationals who had been trafficked into Thailand’s fishing industry were rescued by the Thai authorities on Friday and...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s cabinet on Tuesday approved a plan to spend $68 billion on a high-speed railway and other transportation mega projects to drive the...
CHIANGRAI – Every year between February and April local farmers in Northern Thailand and neighbouring countries burn huge amounts of vegetation to clear fields and...
Richard Barrow has been promoting Thailand online since 1998. BANGKOK – When an official in this Bangkok suburb of Samut Prakan asked British blogger Richard...
BANGKOK – When Mallika told her parents she was pregnant at 17, they pulled her out of school and ordered her to marry the baby’s...
BANGKOK – Thailand government is expanding its current transportation with grand plans 55 transportation projects worth 2.27 trillion baht (US$72 billion) which expect to be...
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 – For years, Thailand’s turbulent and sometimes violent politics have had a familiar narrative: the poor in the country’s rural northern and eastern regions...
CHON BURI – Ari Veinko Juhani Hallikainen from Sweden has been arrested in connection with a job scam that left more than 100 Thai laborers stranded...
KAMPHAENG – A Thai couple accused of kidnapping, torturing and enslaving a 12-year-old Karen girl for over five years, are on the run from authorities...
PATTAYA – Two British Nationals Thevarajah Gnanaraj and Narayanasamy Mohan, have been arrested for allegedly using counterfeit ATM cards to steal more than 2 million baht...
CHIANGRAI – Early Friday morning Chiang Rai Drug Suppression Police arrested three Hmong men and seized 2.2 million methamphetamine pills and 50 kilograms of “ice”,...
BANGKOK -After a decade of off-and-on availability in Thailand as a partner of Chang beer, Carlsberg has re-entered the local market under a deal with Chang’s...
PATTAYA – With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, 9 couples in Thailand are getting into the groove by vying for the world record for the longest...
CHIANGRAI – Thai jasmine rice, also known as “Khao Hom Mali Thung Kula Ronghai,” will become the first product in Southeast Asia to be registered...
CHIANGMAI – For Thailand’s estimated 2.5 million migrant workers, 2013 has new bureaucratic hurdles, and promise of a higher minimum wage beyond them. The new...
BANGKOK – Ask Thai government officials and they will fume that it is just unfair. How can Thailand be denied an “A” sovereign credit rating...
CHIANGRAI – Reports of the United Wa State Army (UWSA)’s preparations to build a dam over the Kok that flows from Burma’s Shan State into...
KHAO PRATUBCHANG – Thailand wants to shed its image as a place where many types of wildlife — turtles from Madagascar, marmoset monkeys from...