Tag: Thailand
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Thailand hopes for major visitor’s splash during Songkran
Hordes of revelers toted colorful water guns yesterday as Thailand kicked off its exuberant three-day Songkran festival at full blast for the first time since 2019, ... -
Authorities use helicopters to fight mountain wildfires
Thai authorities used helicopters yesterday to try to contain a fire that overnight engulfed two mountains on largely undeveloped forest land in a province northeast of ... -
Bangkok a popular destination among residents following flight resumption
Bangkok has become a popular destination for residents after the launch of Air Macau’s international flights as the city drops its zero-Covid policy of nearly three ... -
Concern rises for lives of two activists on hunger strike
Concerns about the condition of two hunger strikers seeking political and judicial reforms in Thailand heightened this week after the hospital where the two women are ... -
Bangkok’s new passenger train terminal starts operations
Thailand ushered in a new age of train travel yesterday Southeast Asia’s biggest railway station officially began operations. The government says the huge, modern development on ... -
Navy searching for 31 missing sailors after ship sank
Thai navy ships and helicopters searched yesterday for more than 30 sailors still missing more than 17 hours after their warship sank in rough seas in ... -
Families leave offerings for children slain at Thai day care
Families offered flowers and dolls, popcorn and juice boxes to children massacred at a day care center in Thailand, part of a Buddhist ceremony held yesterday ... -
37 dead, mostly preschoolers, in Thai day care rampage
A former policeman burst into a day care center in northeastern Thailand today (Thursday), killing dozens of children and teachers and then firing on more people ... -
PM suspended while court mulls if he defied term limits
Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended the prime minister from his duties today (Wednesday) while it decides whether the man who led a military coup in 2014 has ... -
Restive south hit by wave of arson and bombings
A wave of arson and bombing attacks overnight hit Thailand’s southernmost provinces, which for almost two decades have been the scene of an active Muslim separatist insurgency, ... -
Researchers say pro-democracy activists hit by spyware
Cybersecurity researchers reported details yesterday of cases where Thai activists involved in the country’s pro-democracy protests had their cell phones or other devices infected and attacked ... -
US Defense Secretary Austin meets PM Prayuth to boost ties
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Thailand’s prime minister yesterday as part of an effort to strengthen what Austin says is Washington’s “unparalleled network ... -
Police sentenced to life for killing drug suspect
A former Thai police colonel nicknamed “Jo Ferrari” for his extravagant collection of luxury cars was sentenced with five subordinates Wednesday to life in prison for ... -
Thailand moves a step closer to welcoming back foreign tourists
Thailand will start issuing special visas to foreign tourists starting October, easing a more than five-month-old ban on visitors to revive the nation’s ailing tourism-reliant economy. ... -
Thai serial killer cremated after decades as museum display
For decades, some Thai parents warned their naughty children that if they didn’t behave, Si Ouey would come eat their livers. If the threat of a ... -
Thailand sees good result from using drug mixture on coronavirus
A cocktail of antiviral drugs appeared effective in treating a seriously ill coronavirus patient, a Thai health official said. The HIV medicines lopinavir and ritonavir, which ... -
Thailand | Snails slither into spa scene
The last time I encountered escargots they were served up by a French waiter, sizzling in garlic and herb butter. Now, one is slithering up ... -
Asian tsunami 10th anniversary marked with tears and hope
A packed train in Sri Lanka that was swept off the tracks by waves as big as elephants. A boat patrolling off Thailand’s shore hurled ... -
Thailand | Hitler appears in video to promote ‘values’
The short propaganda film commissioned by Thailand’s military rulers was supposed to promote the “12 core values” every Thai student must now learn. But there was ... -
THAILAND | Junta leader apologizes for bikini comment
Thailand’s military ruler apologized yesterday for suggesting that foreigners visiting the country’s world-famous beaches might be unsafe wearing bikinis in the wake of the killing of two ... -
THAILAND | Police conduct autopsies on slain Britons
Police in Thailand said yesterday they have conducted autopsies on two British tourists whose bludgeoned bodies were found on a scenic resort island this week. DNA samples have also been ... -
THAILAND | Police hunt for killer of slain British tourists
Police on the scenic resort island of Koh Tao in southern Thailand conducted a sweep of hotels and workers’ residences yesterday searching for clues into the slayings of ... -
Thailand | 2 British tourists found dead on Koh Tao
Two British tourists were found battered to death yesterday on a beach on a scenic island in southern Thailand that is one of the country’s most ... -
THAILAND | Edible insects a boon to poor farmers
Depending solely on the rains to either yield a good rice crop or leave their fields dry and barren, farmers in this village in northeastern Thailand, ... -
THAILAND | Interpol seeks clues to ‘baby factory’ case
Interpol said it has launched a multinational investigation into what Thailand has dubbed the “Baby Factory” case: a 24-year-old Japanese businessman who has 16 surrogate babies ... -
THAILAND | Australian case casts spotlight on business of surrogacy
For thousands of well-off childless couples, the dream of having a baby is often realized in places like Thailand and India. Ready to help them are ... -
THAILAND | Australia may intervene in surrogate baby case
Australia’s government is considering intervening in the case of a baby with Down syndrome who was left with a Thai surrogate mother by his Australian biological ...
