投稿者: Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok
Former police chief Ronald dela Rosa spends night at senate office after another Duterte ally offers protective custodyThe unusual pursuit was captured on CCTV cameras inside the Philippine senate. Ronald dela Rosa, a longtime ally of the former presid…
Anutin Charnvirakul encourages measures such as home working and carpooling as country is reliant on oil importsThailand’s prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, has called on the public to conserve energy, urging work-from-home measures and carpooling, …
Critics claim the operations are geared at social media, but police say they have enabled real arrestsPolice officers from Bangkok’s metropolitan bureau had less than 24 hours to prepare for their latest undercover operation. They would be starring as …
Dozens of the animals in Chiang Mai region first began to show signs of illness earlier this monthA highly contagious virus is believed to have caused the deaths of 72 captive tigers in northern Thailand this month, with officials racing to contain the…
Police say UK entrepreneur Quentin Griffiths fell from 17th floor of an 18-floor condominium on 9 FebruaryQuentin Griffiths, the co-founder of the online fashion retailer Asos, has died after falling from an apartment building in the Thai seaside resor…
Each side has blamed the other for renewed clashes, which have derailed a ceasefire brokered by Donald TrumpDeadly clashes have escalated along the disputed Thailand-Cambodia border as both sides blamed each other for the fighting and vowed to defend t…
Case centred on claims that he had not properly served a sentence for corruption and abuse of power, which was handed down in 2023Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra must serve one year in jail, the country’s supreme court has ruled, in…
Anutin Charnvirakul’s hobbies, which include playing saxophone, flying planes and cooking, show a relaxed and casual yet shrewd politicianThe man who will become Thailand’s next prime minister after securing the backing of the majority of lawmakers in …
Anutin Charnvirakul voted in by parliament after promising election in four months, as Thaksin Shinawatra jets outAnutin Charnvirakul, a staunch royalist, has been appointed by lawmakers as Thailand’s next prime minister after days of heated negotiatio…
After questions over whether the former prime minister was going back into exile, Thaksin said he would return no later than Monday to attend courtThailand’s influential former prime miniser Thaksin Shinawatra flew out of the country on Thursday, polic…
Lese-majesty case against Thaksin Shinawatra is dismissed, but his daughter Paetongtarn will hear next week if she will be removed as prime minsterA criminal court in Thailand has dismissed a case accusing former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra of de…
Investigators warn in a report that ‘frequency and brutality’ of atrocities in the country are continuing to escalateChildren as young as two years old have been detained by Myanmar’s military, often as proxies for their parents, and held in prison fac…
White House denies suggestions resort in Vietnam presents conflict of interest amid row over compensation ratesVillagers whose farms in Vietnam will be bulldozed to make way for a $1.5bn golf resort backed by the Trump family have reportedly been offer…
New rules banning recreational cannabis use have put Thailand’s $1bn cannabis industry in limbo, with some stores fearing they will have to closeAlong Bangkok’s famous backpacker strip, Khao San Rd, storefronts offer a smorgasbord of highs – cannabis s…
A conversation between the prime minister and Cambodia’s former leader has sparked chaos and coup concerns and possibly the end of the Shinawatra family’s political fortunesIt was a call to someone she considered an old family friend. When Thai prime m…