BANGKOK – Thailand has terminated the contract of its national team coach Winfried Schaefer, ending the colorful German’s near two-year tenure, the kingdom’s football association...
AYUTTHAYA – Dogs are said to have a sixth sense. They can often detect the supernatural, some cancers in humans and even know when shifts...
BANGKOK – The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers is “deeply concerned” by the misuse of the lese majeste rules, its president Jacob...
MYANMAR – Japan’s industrial investors stayed with Thailand through the army coups, the Bangkok-paralyzing massed Red-Shirt protests, and the mismanaged floods of 2011 that swamped...
CHIANG RAI – A tense stand-off is unfolding in the South China Sea between a group of Philippine marines and several Chinese naval vessels. The...
YANGON – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has forgiven billions of dollars of Burmese debt and promised new aid. Analysts said despite China being its...
HUNAN CHINA – Xinhua News in China has reported that rice believed grown in China’s Hunan Province contains unacceptable traces of cadmium, is the latest...
CHIANG RAI – Chiang Rai United yesterday claimed their first win of the season by beating Osotspa M-150 Saraburi 1-0 in the Thai Premier League at...
CHIANG RAI – Cedric Arnold was on assignment in Thailand when he first saw a shipyard worker covered head-to-toe in tattoos. This was Arnold’s entry point...
BANGKOK – Under the fluorescent lights of the boxing ring, the boy can barely see out beyond the elastic ropes that surround the fighting stage....
PHNOM PENH – Cambodian environmentalist Chut Wutty was killed during an investigation into illegal logging in the country’s arcane Cardamom Mountains. A year on, his...
MYANMAR – Authorities in Myanmar say they are increasingly wary of a potential threat from Islamic radicals as militants beyond its borders begin taking up...
BANGKOK – Hundreds of protesters in Thailand have called for the resignation of the country’s nine constitutional court judges. The pro-government “Red Shirt” demonstrators accused...
PATTANI – The Pattani rebellion has been raging in Thailand for years — but what drives these militants? Krue Se Mosque is just outside the...
PHUKET – Recent armed attacks against yachts by thieves in popular Chalong Bay in Phuket, Thailand, is the first violence that the local cruising community...
BEIJING – Whitney Foard Small loved China and her job as a regional director of communications for a top automaker. But after air pollution...
BANGKOK – As well as dousing each other liberally with water during the recent Songkran festival to mark the country’s traditional New Year’s Day holiday,...
CHIANG RAI – In the hill tribe villages of northern Thailand, no door (or kitchen) is closed to a stranger in need. The mountainous province of...
BANGKOK – Until last year, business was good for Charoen Laothamatas, the president of Thai rice exporter Uthai Produce. With Thailand dominating the global market...
VIETNAM – In the central province of Quang Binh, there are two villages where men often go to Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia to find aloeswood. The...