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...
BANGKOK – The government will have to sell off its rice stockpile amassed under the rice pledging scheme at market prices, PM’s Office Minister Nawatthamrong...
PYONGYANG – North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a...
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...
SHANGHAI – Chinese couples are rushing to divorce before a new tax on home sales hits after the government cracked down on property speculation, the...
BANGKOK – Teens across Southeast Asia are jumping on a greasy, crispy, potentially-heart-attack-inducing trend: “potato parties,” which involve consuming mounds of French fries. The concept...
BANGKOK – The Sports Authority of Thailand confirmed, late last week, Thailand will host its first Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2015, but F1 organizers...
BANGKOK – More than 50 percent of new developers to launch projects in Thailand in recent years were from other sectors including garments, jewellery and...
BANGKOK – European champions Chelsea will lay the foundations for their 2013/2014 season in Thailand, when they visit for the second time in three years,...
STOCKHOLM – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has invited the Swedish government to invest in Thailand’s logistics and regional transport system, so that Sweden can use...
BANGKOK– Bangkok’s murky Saen Saep canal is usually a workaday channel for riverboats, but recently it has taken on a new identity: art gallery....
BANGKOK – The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) hosted a meeting with the INCB at its Bangkok headquarters. Ambassadors from around 20 countries...
PYONGYANG – North Korea vowed Tuesday to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, citing a U.S.-led push for punishing UN sanctions over...
PYONGYANG – The Pirate Bay, the most notorious website in the world, claimed Tuesday it had sailed from Europe and was open in North Korea....
JAKARTA – Indonesia will repatriate 10 Cambodian human trafficking victims, who allegedly arrived in the country after being tricked into taking jobs there by agents...
CHIANGMAI – 93-year-old Australian Karl Joseph Kraus accused of raping four young Thai sisters in one of the worst child sex abuse cases investigated in...
GENEVA – A United Nations investigator called on the United States on Monday to publish its findings on the CIA’s Bush-era program of rendition and...
BANGKOK – The approach of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in a couple of years is meaningful for the aviation industry in Thailand, especially low-cost...