投稿者: Agence France-Presse in Bangkok
Officers devise unusual plan to arrest man suspected of stealing about $64,000 worth of Buddhist artefactsThai police donned a lion costume during this week’s lunar new year festivities to arrest a man accused of stealing about $64,000 worth of Buddhis…
Negotiations expected to last four days as each side calls on the other to show sincerity in words and actionsCambodian and Thai officials began four days of talks at a border checkpoint on Wednesday intended to negotiate an end to the deadly clashes b…
Manager and seven staff at Nana backpackers hostel detained after death of six touristsPolice in Laos have detained the manager of a backpacker hostel in Vang Vieng as well as seven of its staff after the deaths of six tourists in a suspected mass meth…
Six foreign visitors died earlier this month after suspected methanol poisoning during night out in backpacker hotspotWhat went wrong in Laos?The Lao government has said it is “profoundly saddened” by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng and ha…
Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn is accused of swindling thousands from victims before killing themA Thai woman alleged to be among the worst serial killers in the kingdom’s history has been convicted and sentenced to death for poisoning a friend with cyanide, …
Ekkapol Chantawong, who spent nearly three weeks underground in 2018, forced to spend night on roof of homeThe coach of the young Thai footballers who captured the world’s attention when they spent nearly three weeks trapped in a cave has found himself…
Formerly exiled billionaire freed six months into eight-year sentence due to age and healthFormer Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been freed on parole and returned home, six months after he was arrested on his dramatic return to the kingdom …
More than 100 injured and hundreds of homes reportedly damaged near border with MalaysiaAn explosion ripped through a firework warehouse in Thailand on Saturday, killing nine people and injuring more than 100, a senior official said.The blast in the to…
Fighting increases in border states while junta continues to delay electionsFighting between the Myanmar army and anti-junta rebels has flared up in recent days, with local people in one village saying on Saturday that 14 people were killed in a single…
Ruling on Maya Bay, on Ko Phi Phi Leh, comes decades after local authorities filed lawsuit over environmental harmMore than two decades after the Hollywood film The Beach was shot at Thailand’s glittering Maya Bay, the kingdom’s supreme court has order…
Columns of smoke seen rising from villages along 8km stretch in drone footage from country’s north amid opposition to regimeMyanmar junta troops have torched hundreds of buildings during a three-day raid in the country’s north, local media and resident…
Ho Hoang Hung set off with no navigation system after spending two years apart because of Covid restrictionsA Vietnamese man who tried to row 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) from Thailand to India to see his wife has been taken into custody after being …
Soldiers set up barriers and sandbags to protect archaeological ruins as well as neighbourhoodsThai authorities have rushed to protect parts of Bangkok from flood waters that have already inundated 70,000 homes and killed six people in the country’s no…
Kingdom reported over 4,800 infections on Thursday, with more than half in two Bangkok prisonsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThailand reported its largest one-day rise in coronavirus infections on Thursday, with more than h…
Site adds notice to resort’s listing setting out details of dispute that led to defamation arrestTripadvisor has placed a warning on a Thai resort’s listing after the resort sued an American expat over a negative review, briefly landing him in police c…