BANGKOK – Italian photographer Fabio Polenghi killed while covering the Thai military’s crackdown on anti-government protesters in Bangkok three years ago was shot by a...
BANGKOK—Thailand’s central bank cut its main policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday and said it is ready to implement capital controls...
MALAYSIA – British Tourist Madeline Jayne has died in Malaysia after being struck by a passing boat’s propellers while snorkeling. Madeline Jayne, from Hereford, suffered...
BANGKOK – According to Global Destination Cities Index forecast research Bangkok will become the world’s most popular city for tourists this year, ahead of London....
CHIANG RAI – Laos has sent nine North Koreans who fled their totalitarian homeland through China last month back to China, a senior Seoul official said...
Bank of Thailand Governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul maintained that the Monetary Policy Committee was under no pressure, despite the renewed attempt by Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong to...
BANGKOK – A sapling of the original Holy Bodhi Tree from Bodhgaya will be presented to the King of Thailand during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s...
YANGON – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has forgiven billions of dollars of Burmese debt and promised new aid. Analysts said despite China being its...
AYUTTHAYA – Workers at an elephant shelter have cut back the tusks of an elephant that killed a Thai woman in the former capital of...
BANGKOK – Carlo Konstantin Kohl (Australia’s Opal Bandit) a German accused of leading a gang of thieves in Australia escaped Interpol officers while waiting for a...