Many of the Westerners who come to Thailand to live and work come here with unrealistic expectations. Many have been here on holiday and expect...
PHILIPPINES – Benjamin Holst the 30-year-old German who was deported from Thailand after he was found drinking and partying whilst begging for money on Bangkok and...
. NAKHON PATHOM – Phra Buddha Issara is a monk on a mission. From his Buddhist temple near Bangkok he is calling for a radical overhaul...
KOH SAMUI – Three local teenagers have been arrested on Koh Samui for the murder of Burmese migrant worker Thet Soe on the Thai island...
BANGKOK – Calls for religious reforms in Thailand are growing following a spate of reports detailing monks’ misdemeanours and controversies involving the Dhammakaya Temple and...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s National Anti-Corruption Commission indicted 250 former lawmakers on Tuesday, a member of the body said, in a ruling that will further erode the...
. BANGKOK – Dawod Hamid Aljenabi, 47, a Bulgarian National, has been arrested in Bangkok’s Ratchathewi district on charges of ATM skimming, accused of stealing up to...
CHIANG RAI – It may not be an official public holiday in Thailand, but over the years Valentine’s Day has firmly captured the Thai imagination....
PATTAYA – Police in Pattaya have have arrested two French Nationals for allegedly stealing data from foreign tourists’ ATM cards. Police identify the suspects as...
BANGKOK – According to reports from Human Rights Watch Thailand’s immigration detention centers are squalid and in 2013 were severely overcrowded. In 2013, eight people...
CHIANG RAI – In the Lower Mekong Sub-Region, changing patterns and intensity of work, lifestyle, and even relaxation, are posing new health risks and challenges....
SHANGHAI – Authorities in China have arrested more than 60,000 people for drug-related crimes and seized 11.14 metric tons of narcotics in a vast, multi-city...
. BANG LAEM – Nearly a decade ago, Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium fields and heroin jungle labs along its eastern border, the...
. BANGKOK — Fifteen billion dollars. That’s roughly the price tag of the coup d’état to date. And it’s the difference between the Thai economy, Southeast...
CHIANG RAI – The once sleepy Mekong River town of Chiang Khong in Chiang Rai province is now a den of activity every morning. Long...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s junta leader Prayuth Chan-o-cha threw a banana peel at a cameraman’s head after getting annoyed at being asked to face the camera too...
BANGKOK – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has inked a deal with Thailand that will see China build a rail network in Thailand and buy two...
. . OTTAWA – The Canadian government is exploring the idea of free trade with Thailand despite internal warnings from Foreign Affairs officials that Ottawa should...
CHIANG RAI – The Mountain of Doi Tung in Chiang Rai highlands will be ablaze with color next weekend and for once it won’t just...
BANGKOK – Thailand may still be one of the best place in South East Asia to Visit, even after its military coup last spring. But...