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Yingluck Shinawatra Swarmed By Facebook Fans as She Tours Northern Thailand
Thailand’s former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra meets with fans in Bueng Kan Province, Thailand. . . BUENG KAN – When Yingluck Shinawatra’ was stripped of her job as Prime Minister in a highly...
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Drunk Driving Student Who Killed Three Cyclists Appeals Sentence
Three cyclists were killed when a speeding car driven by Patsuada Jayruan slammed into them as they rode along the side of the road. . . CHIANG MAI – The Provincial court in Chiang Mai on Tuesday...
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Monk and Staff Busted Leaving Tiger Temple with Tiger Hides and Amulets
A police officer, right, examines the belongings of two men arrested after attempting to remove tiger skin’s and products from the “Tiger Temple,” in Saiyok district in Kanchanaburi province. . ....
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18 Year-Old Pakistani Woman Burned Alive for Rejecting Marriage Proposal
18 year-old Maria Abbasi was baby-sitting a younger sister near Murree, Pakistan, when she was attacked . ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani police official says a female teacher has died after being beaten and...
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Family Struggles to Get Canadian David Connelly Home from Thailand
David Connelly, in Thailand visiting his father, was involved in a near fatal motorcycle accident early last month and has been recovering in a Thai hospital since. . PHUKET – Canadian David Connelly...
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Chiang Rai Police Take Down Drug Smuggler in Mae Chan District
Charoen Chumchan, 41, arrested after police found methamphetamine pills in five fertiliser sacks inside his pickup truck in Mae Chan district of Chiang Rai – Photo: Chinpat Chaimon . CHIANG RAI – Pol...
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Wiang Pa Pao District Chief Disburses Charity Money to Pithakkaiat Witthaya...
Deputy Commissioner General of the Royal Thai Police Pol. Gen. Chalermkiat Sriworakan visits one of the injured young students from the dormitory fire at Pithakkaiat Witthaya School . . CHIANG RAI –...
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Japanese Boy, 7, Left on Mountainside by Parents Is Found
Yamato Tanooka, seven, who was abandoned in a forest in northern Japan, has been found. . TOKYO – A 7-year-old Japanese boy who disappeared nearly a week ago after his parents left him on the side of a...
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Malaysian Authorities Seek Answers on British Pedophile Who Sexually Abused...
Deputy IGP Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said authorities are seeking details on the man’s victims from their British counterparts . . KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysian authorities sought details on Friday of the...
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Drunken Monk Beaten after Grabbing 4 Year-Old Girl and Telling Mother he...
Phra Thongsuk Chuabua was defrocked by the temple abbot and held in police custody for legal action. – Photo Thairath . . LOEI – Police in Huay Paduk village in tambon Na Dok Tai of Na Duang district...
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Nigeria’s New President Recovers $10.3 Billion in Looted Government Money and...
President Muhammadu Buhari speaks at the Commonwealth Tackling Corruption Together Conference in the United Kingdom . . LAGOS – Nigeria’s Information minister announced Saturday that Nigeria has seized...
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Thailand’s Controversial “Tiger Temple” Now Tiger-less as Wildlife Officials...
A week-long operation to remove nearly 140 tigers from a temple in Thailand has finished, officials said. . . KANCHANABURI -Wildlife-protection officials have removed the last 11 tigers from the famous...
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Hotel Collapses in Koh Chang, Thailand Killing One Tourist and Trapping Seven...
Hotel block at Siam Beach Resort, Koh Chang collapsed this morning after heavy rain. Reports of one dead. KOH CHANG – At least one foreign tourist has died and seven remained trapped after a...
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Nigerian and Thai Woman Busted with 8.5kg of ‘Chrystal Meth’
Nigerian National John Anike Chinedu, 24 arrested for drug trafficking . . BANGKOK– Nigerian National John Anike Chinedu, 24 and Thai National Sawaros Nathawil, 34 have been arrested after almost nine...
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China Arrogantly Say’s It Will Ignore UN Ruling on South China Sea
Rear Admiral Guan Youfei (C), director of Foreign Affairs Office of China’s National Defence Ministry. . . BEIJING – China’s Rear Adm Guan Youfei, said on Saturday that China would ignore the decision...
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Chiang Rai Fire Safety Officials Press for Smoke Detectors in All Schools and...
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) suggested that schools and dormitories install smoke alarms which can detect smoke and send out a signal within 60 seconds. . . CHIANG RAI -At a press...
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Attackers of British Family in Hua Hin Jailed for Two Years
Suphattha Baithong and Yingyai Saengkhamin (top), both aged 32, and Siva Noksri and Chaiya Jaiboon, both 20, pleaded guilty to assault. . . HUA HIN – The Provincial Court on Sunday has sentenced four...
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Philippine President-Elect Encourages Citizens to Kill Drug Dealers
Duterte, who starts his six-year presidential term on June 30, repeated a plan to offer huge bounties to those who can turn in drug lords, dead or alive. . . DAVAO – The Philippine president-elect...
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US Navy Imposes Alcohol Ban and Denies Liberty to Sailors in Japan
U.S. Navy confines sailors to bases in Japan, imposes open-ended alcohol ban . .. OKINAWA – American sailors across Japan were confined to their bases and banned from drinking alcohol starting Monday...
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Thai Authorities Look to Permanently Close Tiger Temple
Military and National Park Department officers at the Tiger Temple – Photo Edwin Wiek . . KANCHANABURI – Deputy Chief of Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation said authorities...
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