CHIANGRAI TIMES – Myanmar freed some of its most famous political inmates on Friday, sparking jubilation outside prison gates while signaling its readiness to meet...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Myanmar’s (Burma) government signed a cease-fire agreement Thursday with ethnic Karen rebels in a major step toward ending one of the world’s...
If you have an itchy trigger finger while visiting Thailand it may be difficult to purchase a gun, but wealthy foreigners and Thais who live...
ChiangRai offers many places for bicycling (there are clubs), mountain or dirt biking, horse riding, rafting, rock climbing and other sports. There are also photo...
ChiangRai city’s best and most important is the Oub Kham, between the Den Ha fresh produce market and the military hospital (Khai Mengrai Maharat). It’s...
From a windowless room in a Bangkok suburb, computer technicians scour thousands of websites, Facebook pages and tweets night and day. Their mission: to suppress...
His Majesty the King will today grant a public audience during a grand state ceremony at Chakri Maha Prasat Throne Hall on the auspicious occasion...
Refugee advocates expect a new wave of “stateless” Rohingya asylum seekers to attempt perilous sea voyages in rickety boats from ports in Bangladesh, raising concerns...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama in a letter to the Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra last week expressed...
Thailand’s worst floods in 50 years have hit tourism at the start of the high season, but the country has recovered quickly in the recent...
A proposed royal pardon for thousands of Thailand’s convicted criminals, including the exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has provoked an angry response from the...
Bangkok needs 1.2 million sandbags to construct a six-kilometre wall within 48 hours to keep encroaching floods from swamping into the city, Bangkok’s governor said...
Beside a wall of white sandbags that has become a front line in Thailand’s battle to prevent an epic season of monsoon floods from reaching...
Theerapon Ngerntueak wants to share their location with you on Google Latitude. You too can see where your friends are and share your location using Latitude...
Nong Ja, a 20-year-old student whose song about an itchy ear has taken the country by storm, attracting a staggering 16 million hits on YouTube, along...
Human rights activists are reporting an increased incidence of rape against Kachin women in areas of recent military attacks by government forces in northern Myanmar....
Santi Leksakun grew up in Chiang Rai, a small city in the north of Thailand near the border of Myanmar. He is a project coordinator at...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) appears to have used Bangkok’s former Don Muang International Airport as a secret prison to...
BANGKOK—Global companies are growing increasingly worried that Thailand’s recent clampdown on Internet traffic might drag down the country’s economic potential and make it more difficult...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Ajahn Cagino, 43, lives in a cave with two snakes and eight bats. The cave is 2km from the nearest village in Mae...