Former auditor general Khunying Jaruwan Menthaka was sentenced to nine-month jail term suspended for two years and fined 15,000...

Thailand’s most celebrated  culinary guru and national artist M.R. M.R. Thanadsri Svasti passed away Tuesday at the age of...

Sad images of wild animals, including squirrels, snakes, lizards, turtles and monkeys, that could not escape the fire that...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha admitted today (Tuesday ) that he had sought permission from His Majesty the King for...

The Constitutional Court is set to rule on the premiership appointment of General Prayut Chan-o-cha on September 18th. Constitutional...

The Ombudsmen decided unanimously today (Tuesday) to ask the Constitutional Court to rule whether Prime Minister’s incomplete recital of...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Violence in Hong Kong’s anti-government protests is becoming more serious but the government is confident...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his cabinet ministers this morning received a signed blessing from His Majesty the King,...

National park officials, aided by a tractor, have been trying to reopen the Ban Krang-Panoen Thung mountain road, which...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his cabinet ministers have been granted an audience before an image of His Majesty...

The Bureau of the Royal Household on Monday released to the public photos and biography of the Royal Consort,...

The Future Forward party has dismissed widespread speculation, even among opposition MPs, that it is likely to be dissolved...

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Rights activists and relatives urged Thailand on Monday to investigate the death of an insurgent suspect...

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia on Monday revealed the long-awaited site for its new $33-billion capital on the forested island...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Illegal violence is pushing Hong Kong to the brink of great danger, the city government...

The electronic monitoring (EM) bracelets, rented from a private company by the Department of Probation to keep track of...

The Association of Siamese Architects (ASA) is to hand a letter of protest to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha over...

Veterinarians, based at the sea turtle hospital at the Sattahip naval base in Chon Buri province, are scheduled to...

Thailand has been dropped from the CITES ( Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) list of countries affected...

BRASILIA/PORTO VELHO, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Police fired water cannon and tear gas in running battles with brick-throwing anti-government protesters in...

Abdulloh Esor Musor, a suspected insurgent being held in military custody for questioning after his arrest on July 20th,...

Hollywood super star Leonardo DiCaprio posted via Instagram on Saturday an image of baby dugong Mariam and the report...

In an energetic, almost two hour final against Thailand today (Sunday), Japan won the 20th Asian Women’s Volleyball Championship,...

United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) chairman Jatuporn Promphan and two former red-shirt leaders, Natthawut Saikua and Arisman...

Most younger generation Thai people favour the Future Forward party, while older Thais prefer the Palang Pracharat party, especially...

Thailand’s commercial banks have recently agreed, in principle, with the Bank of Thailand to set lending guidelines by limiting...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police on Sunday said they arrested 29 people after clashes overnight in which...

Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, official data showed Saturday, as thousands of...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Saturday it strongly opposes Washington’s decision to levy additional tariffs on $550 billion...

Five people, dressed in para military uniforms and armed with assault rifles, robbed a gold shop in the downtown...

The Ombudsman is expected to rule next Tuesday on whether Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha breached the Constitution by failing...

Thailand’s Finance Ministry is considering an overhaul of the current ‘one size fits all’ state welfare system, replacing it...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police used tear gas to break up anti-government protests in a gritty industrial...

The Association of Siamese Architects (ASA) has decided to recall the Award for Outstanding Conservation of Architectural Arts from...

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Amid growing international criticism over the wildfires raging through the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Thousands of chanting Hong Kong protesters joined peaceful “Baltic Chain” links of hands on Friday,...

In apparent defiance of Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin announced Friday that he would not...

Thailand’s Transport Ministry and the State Railways of Thailand (SRT) have lost their appeal against the Supreme Administrative Court’s...

A network of fishermen’s groups, in Thailand’s southern province of Trang, has renewed its call for authorities to control...

South Korea beat Thailand 3-1 (25-20, 23-25, 25-17, 25-21) in the 2nd round of the 2019 Asian Women’s Volleyball...

Rescue workers were this morning (Friday) called to a house in Muang district of Thailand’s northern province of Lampang...

Thailand’s National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department has launched a program to sterilize 600 long-tailed macaque monkeys in...

Thailand’s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources reports that Yamil, the baby dugong found stranded in the southern province...

Thailand’s Department of Marine and Coastal Resources has recently received 20 floating trash collectors from a private company to...

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a motion from a Future Forward MP to set up an...

There are 10 rich MPs, who have over one billion baht in assets each, while the poorest MP has...

All shark species should be listed as protected marine animals to protect them from being hunted for commercial purposes,...

The opposition Pheu Thai Party has backed down over a plan to investigate three of its MPs, for the...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is considering bringing forward, by 1-2 years, the imposition of a complete...

Two related incidents over the past few days can tell how far the country has come in its attempt...

BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese national working at Britain’s Hong Kong consulate has been detained in China’s border city...

Ms. Chananya Kanchanasaka, a veterinarian at the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, posted on her Facebook...

His Majesty the King sent a royal aide to collect 13 rescued Great Dane dogs from the Department of...

Seri Ruam Thai party leader Seripisut Temiyavet is pressing for the resignations of House Speaker Chuan Leekpai and Senate...

Thailand’s Rice Policy and Management Committee, chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, has approved a rice price guarantee scheme...

The New Economics Party is still aligned with the Opposition but it may, when necessary, take an independent position,...

About 20 years ago, long before plastic waste became recognized as a global problem, monks at Wat Pa Book,...

Many state-run Krung Thai Bank ATMs in Thailand’s northeastern provinces ran out of 500-baht and 100-baht banknotes after Pracharat...

By Ohhappybear There is something about people on the fringes that always intrigues me. We have lived, for too...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – A major bank warned on Wednesday that weeks of protests in Hong Kong could hit...

Thailand’s Bang Saen seaside town, on the eastern coast near Bangkok, will undergo a major make-over to accommodate an...

At least eight civilians were injured in a spate of explosions targeting power poles and an ATM in several...

BANGKOK (Reuters) – In the dead of night, Thai firefighter Pinyo Pukpinyo stealthily approaches a python coiled around the...

The cabinet on Tuesday agreed to reward 17 MPs, who defected from the parties they represented when elected, or...

Effective from 20th September, traffic police have no authority to confiscate the driving license of the driver of an automobile...

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is to propose the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to extend the closing...

Mr. Sompong Klaikloeng , the man arrested by Phetchaburi provincial police for allegedly stealing railway pins and steel plates,...

Some MPs from the opposition New Economics Party will defect to the government camp, Mr. Niyom Wiwatthanaditthakul, the party...

Construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta was sentenced to six months in prison, without suspension, by the Criminal Court this morning...

Police raided a scrap dealer in Cha-am district of Phetchaburi province Monday night after a south-bound train was derailed...

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has completed its extended investigation into the operations of Akara Resources Public Company,...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she hoped a peaceful weekend anti-government protest...

Former Finance Minister and Democrat list MP Korn Chatikavanich has voiced his concern over the financial crisis facing Thai...

Palang Pracharat party deputy spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonchana has apologised to the public over the conduct of one of the...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced to his well-wishers in Thailand’s northeastern province of Buri Ram that he would definitely...

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment aims to increase the population of dugong in Thailand’s waters by 50%,...

Thailand’s economic growth rate for the second quarter of this year registered at 2.3%, compared to 2.8% for the...

Thai Airways International, the national flag carrier, appears to be in a deep financial crisis and may have to...

By Ohhappybear Before Bangkok has become a haven for ‘street food’ as we’re now touted to be, we have...

The remains of baby dugong Mariam will be placed on display at the Phuket Aquarium after being embalmed at...

“Get those foreign agents outta town”, roars a music video by a patriotic Chinese rap group, one of a...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong is gearing up for more protests this week after hundreds of thousands of...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – At least 100,000 anti-government protesters joined a mass rally in Hong Kong on Sunday, filling...

The majority of the respondents disagree with the politicization of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s alleged incomplete oath taking, according...

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob has ordered an investigation into a fatal road accident, which occurred early Sunday morning on...

The government has not cut the budget for the Gold Card universal health program, but has increased health benefits...

Hong Kong democracy activists are hoping to get out a huge crowd later Sunday in a bid to show...

The death of baby dugong Mariam, which is being blamed on plastic found blocking her digestive system, has renewed...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Thousands of Hong Kongers including many teachers took part in more anti-government rallies on Saturday,...

Mariam, the orphaned baby dugong and darling of many netizens in Thailand for her much-publicized four month struggle to...

The political standoff in Hong Kong is not only fueling fears that Hong Kong may be heading for recession,...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said today (Friday) that he is not afraid of facing the Opposition in parliament and...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has given assurance that his government is not overspending by disbursing 310 billion baht as...

The economic cabinet on Friday agreed to set up a special panel, expected to be led by Deputy Prime...