EXPERIENCE: NORTHERN THAILAND ON THE TABLE Everyone has a dish that reminds them of their childhood. It’s the one dish that people usually think of as...
BANGKOK – Soaring temperatures could send Thailand’s electricity demand to a record high on Friday just as imports of natural gas from Myanmar fall, raising...
MEKONG BASIN – One of the most fertile areas of south east Asia, the Lower Mekong Basin, faces a bleak future from the impacts of...
CHIANG RAI – The smog haze situation in the northern region is still critical while many provinces and farmers across the country continue to be...
YANGON – Buddhist monks armed with swords and machetes stalked the streets of a city in central Myanmar on Friday where sectarian violence has left...
HAT YAI – Police say suspected militants in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south have detonated a motorcycle bomb that killed a 9-year-old boy and wounded 10 other people....
CHIANGRAI – Professor Anek Prateep Na Talang is a man with a mission, to promote the Poolae pineapple and promote proper agricultural practices among local farmers....
We all love Thai cuisine but what’s the best way to prepare it? Is there such a thing as a ‘typical’ Thai dish? Given the...
BANGKOK — Thailand’s Navy on Wednesday denied accusations its sailors shot Rohingya boat people fleeing sectarian strife in Myanmar, after a rights group urged a...
ABOARD THE USS FREEDOM – The U.S. Navy’s hottest new ship and the centerpiece of its renewed focus on Asia isn’t its largest vessel, or...
BORNEO – Invasion attempt by a group claiming to be inheritors of the Sulu throne with a 100 strong “army” on Borneo’s Malaysian part, has...
CHIANGRAI – A drug runner carrying 60,030 methamphetamine pills has been killed in a clash with the Pha Muang Task Force at a northern border...
YANGON – Myanmar’s military has been granted a $2.4 billion annual budget, just over 12 percent of total government spending in the poverty-stricken country, according...
BEIJING — Domestic politics trumps international politics, in China as everywhere. So even though China lost a friend in President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who...
BEIJING – China’s naval and paramilitary ships are churning up the ocean around islands it disputes with Tokyo in what experts say is a strategy...
CHIANGRAI – Beyond bargain shopping at Chatuchak Market or visiting the different temples in Bangkok, much remains unexplored in Thailand. On my last stay, I...
BANGKOK – Over the last nine months the insurgency in the Deep South of Thailand has escalated dramatically. Just within the last week two bombs...
BANGKOK – Such is the reliance of Thailand on gas from Myanmar that scheduled maintenance at a plant in April may cause Thailand’s cities go dark...
YANGON — The image was meant to convey growing friendship between the United States and Myanmar, currently the world’s hottest frontier market. Flanked by...
BANGKOK – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday urged This to have confidence in the government’s plans and measures to address the possible power...