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4 Decades Later, Lao Hmong who Helped the US ‘fight Communism’ are still...
Selling fried chicken on the streets for about $4 a day, she does her best to care for and protect her 5-year-old daughter BANGKOK – For 24-year-old Pa Kou Vang, home is a shared room in the heaving...
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Junta to Clampdown on Taxi Drivers who Refuse Passengers in Bangkok
Most of the complaints against taxi drivers deal with their use of rude language with passengers and rejecting passengers in favor of foreign passengers. - - BANGKOK – The Land Transport Department in...
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Chiang Rai Military Court Sentences Anti-Coup Protester
Protesters gathered at the fast food restaurant, wore masks with ‘X’ and showed anti-coup placards. About 30 minutes, later the military and police officers were deployed to the McDonald’s, forcing...
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American Tourist Brutally Attacked By ‘Ladyboy’ in Pattaya
American Tourist Brutally Attacked By Pattaya ‘Ladyboy’ - PATTAYA - An American Tourist was taken to hospital after a “Kathoey” waitress in the red light district of Pattaya allegedly used her...
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Artist Sriwan Janehuttakarnkit finds Happiness in Chiang Rai Mountains
Sriwan likes to spend time in her home studio. She creates many water-colours themed around the reality of life. Photos by Tawatchai Kemgumnerd CHIANG RAI – Painter, artist Sriwan Janehuttakarnkit...
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Hundreds of Anti-Coup leaflets Scattered Outside the Thai Army Headquarters...
Anti-coup leaflets scattered in front of army headquarters on Aug 15, 2014. (Photo by Wassana Nanuam) BANGKOK – In a brazen defiance against the military rule in Thailand, hundreds of anti-junta...
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Chiang Rai and Other Gateway Provinces See Jump in Land Prices ahead of AEC
Chiang Rai, Udon Thani among those reaping benefits of plans to link Thailand with neighbours CHIANG RAI – Land prices for residential development in key gateway provinces to neighboring Asean...
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3.2 Earthquake Jolts Mae Suai Chiang Rai
CHIANG RAI – According to the Meteorological Department’s Seismological Bureau a 3.2-magnitude earthquake jolted Mae Suai district of Chiang Rai, no damages or casualties have been reported. Somsak...
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Taiwanese Tour Guide Run Over by Train in Kanchanaburi Province
Officials collect the body of the Taiwanese tour guide at the Tham Krasae train station in Kanchanaburi on Saturday. (Photo by Piyarach Chongcharoen) - KANCHANABURI – 36-year-old Taiwanese tour guide...
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British Coronor Gives Open Verdict on Liam Whitaker Found Hanged in a Thai...
Liam Whitaker, 24, from Helston, died last October after being arrested in Bangkok for possessing methamphetamine. CORNWALL,UK – A British Coroner Dr Emma Carlyon an open verdict has been recorded...
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Fifteen Missing after Tourist Boat Sinks in Indonesia
Map: Boat sinks in Indonesia JAKARTA - Ten foreign tourists were missing on Sunday (Aug 17) after a boat traveling between islands in eastern Indonesia sank, while 10 others had been rescued,...
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Nudists Surrender Themselves to Authorities in Penang Malaysia
The nudists participants ready for a relay race as seen on five minute video. GEORGE TOWN – Five of the 15 people who allegedly participated in a nudist event at a beach in Penang were remanded at...
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Air Chief Marshal Prajin Dons a New Uniform as Thailand’s Economics Czar
Prajin Juntong, at right of Thai junta leader Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha in Bangkok on May 20, has been tasked with luring foreign investment to the country in his role as economics czar - BANGKOK—Three...
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Thailand’s Military Boosts Spending on Defense, Education in Draft Budget
Thai Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha speaks during the start of a National Legislative Assembly meeting to consider urgent matters including the 2015 Budget Bill, at the parliament in Bangkok...
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Pattaya Police Detain Russian Mark Lunev at Interpol’s Request
Lunev (Center) was living in Thailand with his family and was considered an honest businessman in Pattaya, where he also joined a charity - PATTAYA – Russian National Mark Yakovlevich Lunev , accused...
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Thailand’s Government Gets Tough of Jet Ski Scammers
Foreign tourists who rent jet skis on the Thailand island of Phuket are often forced to phone friends to bring money to pay for damage to jet skis they didn’t cause PHUKET – After years of pressure...
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Japanese Millionare Mitsutoki Shigeta Hands over DNA Samples to Thai Authorities
Japanese National Mitsutoki Shigeta suspected of having fathered at least 12 babies BANGKOK – The lawyer of a Japanese National Mitsutoki Shigeta suspected of having fathered at least 12 babies using...
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Australian Travel Agent, Trevor Lake, 65, Busted in Cambodia for Allegedly...
Sydney travel agent Trevor Lake, 65, (above) who has been working in the south-east Asian tourism industry for 28 years, was arrested in the tourist town of Siem Reap. Under Cambodian law it is...
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Huge Drug Haul in Chiang Rai’s Mae Fa Luang District
340,000 methamphetamine pills, 3kg of crystal meth, 2kg of raw opium – Photo Thai PBS - CHIANG RAI- Police and military officials Tuesday unearthed a stash of methamphetamine’s, opium, and guns buried...
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German 99 Beer Bar Owner Stabbed to Death in Koh Samui
- Medical workers reported that the man died of stab wounds and the police have said they are following CCTV footage to find the suspects - KOH SAMUI – A group of Thai teenagers allegedly stabbed a...
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