Some surfers still opt for a wooden surfboard, instead of one made of polyurethane foam, despite the heavier weight...

Representatives of a brand-new political party, founded by former Democrat deputy leader Korn Chatikavanij, went to the office of...

BEIJING (AP) — China has reported 254 new daily deaths and a spike in new daily virus cases of...

Police have arrested a Chinese man and woman, and found at least seven Thai surrogate mothers, in coordinated raids...

Two cruise ships from Malaysia and Singapore, carrying about 2,400 mostly European passengers and crew, docked in Phuket deep-seaport...

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (AP) — A cruise ship turned away by other Asian and Pacific governments due to virus fears...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The death toll in China’s Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak leapt by a record 242...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s biggest bank DBS (DBSM.SI) evacuated 300 staff from its head office on Wednesday as a...

One of the 138 Thai returnees from Wuhan, who has been in Queen Sirikit Hospital at Sattahip naval base...

Five former leaders of the anti-Thaksin movement, the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), were sentenced to imprisonment from 1-2...

The fate of Future Forward Party will be decided on February 21 when the Constitutional Court rules whether it...

Jakrapanth Thomma, the gunman who shot 30 people dead during a rampage in Nakhon Ratchasima over the weekend, owned...

Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong speaks at a press conference on a shooting rampage in Korat.

Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong confirmed this morning that a failed land deal prompted army man Sergeant Major Jakrapanth...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s daily death toll from new virus has topped 100 for first time, with more than...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Worried about the spread of coronavirus? A five-foot tall (1.5 meter) Promobot might have your...

The death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak soared to 803 in China on Sunday, according to official figures,...

(Reuters) – The two engines of the helicopter that crashed in hazy, cloudy weather on a California hillside last...

Thousands of couples — some in facemasks — tied the knot in a mass Unification Church wedding Friday, despite...

BEIJING (AP) — The death toll in the viral outbreak in mainland China has risen to 722, while new...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The death toll from a new coronavirus in mainland China jumped by 73 to 563 on...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Thailand has voted unanimously to cut the policy rate by 25...

The Criminal Court is due to publish the verdict of the Supreme Court today (Thursday) in cases against five...

BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong hospitals cut services as medical workers were striking for a second day Tuesday to...

As the deadly coronavirus has spread worldwide, it has carried with it xenophobia — and Asian communities around the...

The Huoshenshan (Fire God Mountain) in Wuhan receives first patients. The hospital was put into use after 10 days...

Thai medical authorities are prepared to quarantine the 144 Thais who will be evacuated from the Chinese city of...

BEIJING (AFP) – China’s top leadership on Monday admitted “shortcomings and difficulties” in its response to the coronavirus outbreak,...

As Thailand is about to impose control on prices and distribution of surgical masks and hand sanitizers, China said...

Fifty-one areas in Bangkok, and eight in its vicinity, have been declared ‘orange zones’ this morning (Monday) as the...

Thailand’s Rajavithi Hospital has announced the successful treatment of a severe case of novel coronavirus infection, using a cocktail...

LONDON (AP) — A man recently released from prison after serving time for terrorism-related offenses strapped on a fake...

The death toll from China’s coronavirus epidemic soared to 304 on Sunday, as an increasing number of countries imposed...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has put on hold a proposal by Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to suspend visa...

BANGKOK (AP) — The holiday was over for almost 80 Chinese visitors to Thailand. They were lining up at...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The total number of deaths from a coronavirus epidemic in China had reached 259 by the...

Britain on Friday ended almost half a century of European Union membership, making a historic exit after years of...

A grey-haired man wearing a face mask lies dead on the pavement at ground zero of China’s virus epidemic,...

When it comes to an outbreak of a fearsome disease, nobody is right all along and nobody is wrong...

LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom leaves the European Union on Friday for an uncertain Brexit future, its most...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian officials declared a state of emergency for the capital city of Canberra and surrounding regions...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The death toll in China from the new coronavirus reached 213 on Friday, with overall cases...

The Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS) and newly-founded think tank Institute of Public Policy and Development (IPPD) signed...

About 30 small parties today submitted a petition to the Election Commission (EC) against the commission’s endorsement of Paiboon...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Parliament gave final approval to Britain’s divorce from the European Union on Wednesday, paving...

BEIJING (REUTERS, AFP) – China’s National Health Commission said on Thursday the total number of confirmed deaths from the...

TOKYO (Reuters) – The first chartered flight carrying 206 Japanese nationals evacuated from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus...

Pheu Thai party secretary-general Anudit Nakhontap has blamed proxy voting by Government MPs for the delay in the disbursement...

Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has so far identified 14 coronavirus cases, all Chinese tourists, as Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The deadly new coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, that has broken out in China will afflict a minimum of...

Air quality in Bangkok and its vicinity is deteriorating today, with increasing levels of PM2.5 dust in the atmosphere...

UK PM Boris Johnson will celebrate Brexit with a light show and projected clock after plans to get London’s...

BEIJING, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) — Chinese health authorities announced Tuesday that 4,515 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the...

Researchers at the Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University will join officials from the Department of...

Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a dwindling number of elderly Holocaust survivors gathered at the former German...

BEIJING  — Several countries are expected to start evacuating their citizens trapped in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the...

Several Thai universities with student exchange programs with Chinese universities, or a large contingent of Chinese students, have taken...

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has assured the public that the current preventive measures, adopted by the ministry, are...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The death toll from China’s new coronavirus grew to 80 on Monday as residents of Hubei...

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — Chinese health authorities announced Sunday that 1,975 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the...

Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said today that he was totally at loss about what to do if the budget...

All hotels in the popular seaside resort town of Hua Hin have been instructed, by the district chief officer,...