Thousands of truckers in Thailand are gearing up for a nationwide strike tomorrow (Monday), to pressure the government into...

After being suspended for about a year due to the pandemic, the Phuket “Smart Bus” will resume normal operations...

Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced Sunday, his first public...

“Cryptocurrency” is technical jargon and gibberish to many people, even in this modern age of technological innovation. While it...

Thailand has extended the list of “low risk” countries and territories whose citizens will be allowed to enter the...

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health will ask the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) to ease restrictions on movable...

More than 1,000 prisoners in the Zone 6 maximum security sector of the prison in Thailand’s southern province of...

Sacked Pheu Thai MP for Pathum Thani province, Pornpimon Thammasarn, and a former Pheu Thai MP for Ubon Ratchathani...

Thailand has recorded its first case of the Delta Plus variant of COVID-19, but there is no cause for...

GENEVA/GLASGOW, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is “way off...

Myanmar’s junta threatened on Monday to skip an ASEAN summit after the bloc said the country’s military chief could not attend over doubts about the government’s commitment to defusing a...

Thailand’s Tourism and Sports Ministry will request, from the cabinet at its mobile meeting in the southern province of...

Chulalongkorn University’s Alumni Association announced today that the university will proceed with the procession, featuring the Phra Kieo coronet,...

People living in Bangkok and its surrounding provinces are advised to prepare for PM2.5 dust pollution, coinciding with the...

The Expressway Authority of Thailand (EXAT) is trying to negotiate, with Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company (BEM), the...

From November 1st, foreign tourists arriving in Thailand, without being required to enter quarantine, must meet seven conditions, according...

As a cat lover, you might have one, two or three pet cats but, what if you have to...

MILAN, Oct 20 (Reuters) – People vaccinated against COVID-19 are highly unlikely to die of the disease unless very...

Foreigners applying for non-immigrant (O-A) visas for stays in Thailand of up to one year are now required to...

Oct 19 (Reuters) – The success of the South Korean dystopian drama series “Squid Game” has led investors to...

Overflow from the Lam Takhong River and runoff from Soong Nern and Kham Talay Sor districts have flooded the...

About 130 million baht has been mysteriously withdrawn from 10,700 bank accounts through credit and debit card payments between...

About 50 nurses and other medical personnel working at the Udon Thani provincial hospital have protested to the management...

Thailand’s Highways Department will put the new M-Flow toll system on tests from October 29th at Dan Tap Chang...

Thailand’s Department of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has notified the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to advise the city’s...

Hundreds of trucks and their drivers, affiliated with the Land Transport Federation of Thailand, gathered this morning (Tuesday) at...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state and top military officer, died on Monday...

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc. plans to create 10,000 jobs in the European Union over the next five years, the social...

The Yala provincial administration, today (Monday), started tightening up travel restrictions by requiring all travellers entering this southern border...

Bhumjaithai party-list MP Suphachai Jaismut has asked Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to review his order appointing one of his...

A recent opinion poll shows that 60% of Thai people surveyed do not agree with the November 1st reopening...

Thailand’s truckers’ associations have threatened to go on strike for a week if the government does not freeze the...

The Phetchabun provincial governor has ordered two villages, next to Thailand’s famous mountain resort of Phu Tub Berk, closed...

Thai Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn says that he is also looking at the non-financial benefits of the...

MANILA, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Hundreds of animal lovers in the Philippines had their pets blessed via a drive–through ceremony on Sunday to mark World Animal...

England, Oct 15 (Reuters) – British lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death in an Essex church on Friday by an...

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The White House will announce on Friday it will lift travel restrictions for fully vaccinated foreign nationals effective Nov. 8,...

The coronavirus pandemic has made vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna and the mRNA technology that they use into household names.  These...

Thai security forces shot and killed a suspected insurgent in a peat swamp in Bareh Tai sub-district of Bacho...

Pasak riverside communities were warned today (Wednesday) to brace for possible flooding and to move their valuable belongings to...

Checkpoints have been set up on main roads linking Thailand’s Songkhla province with Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat for the...

Heavy rain throughout Tuesday night and early this morning dumped 300mm of water on Thailand’s eastern coastal province of...

Three measures must be in place when reopening Thailand to foreign travellers, scheduled for November 1st, says Professor Dr....

Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) will meet with members of the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) to seek a...

CASABLANCA, Chile, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Down a dusty farm track in Chilean wine country, behind a wooden gate...

Former acting director of Thailand’s state-run Public Warehouse Organization (PWO), Pol Col Roongroj Putthiyawat, and two senior officials in...

PARIS, Oct 5 (Reuters) – French clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a...

The Thai cabinet approved a 1.32-billion-baht fund today (Tuesday) to help ease the financial burden of parents whose small...

How can passengers take 10 billion flights a year without contributing to global warming? The question of “greening” the...

COVID-19 has aggravated the issue of press freedom, media business viability and journalist safety around Southeast Asia, according to...

S&P Global Ratings (S&P) has retained Thailand’s sovereign credit rating for 2021 at BBB+, with a stable outlook, as...

The dismissed former police superintendent in Nakhon Sawan province, Pol Col Thitisan Utthanaphol, had been involved in the seizure...

BEIJING (AP) — The ruling Communist Party is tightening political control over China’s internet giants and tapping their wealth...

Some 3,000 paedophiles have operated inside the French Catholic Church since 1950, the head of an independent commission investigating the scandal told AFP...

A new plant species has recently been found in the Namtok Ngao National Park, in Thailand’s southern province of...

The Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) will put two million quality rapid antigen test kits (ATKs) on sale to the...

An army officer was killed in a firefight with insurgents hiding in a forest peat swamp in the southern...

“Forget about herd immunity because it will not work with COVID-19.” So says Dr. Yong Poovorawan, chief of the...

Hundreds of households in riverside communities in Bangkok’s neighbouring province of Nonthaburi, which are not protected by flood walls,...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Saturday he will not run for vice president in 2022 and will retire from politics, potentially paving the way...

About 100 troops, police and para-military rangers are blocking all potential exits from a peat swamp in a forest...

Sept 29 (Reuters) – Myanmar‘s currency has lost more than 60% of its value since the beginning of September, driving up food and fuel prices in...

Thailand’s National Water Resources Office and the Royal Irrigation Department have been racing against time to divert massive amounts...

Three police officers were killed in Thailand’s restive southernmost province of Narathiwat today (Tuesday) in two separate incidents. Two...

Five people have drowned, another remains missing and more than 55,000 households in the central province of Lop Buri...

World Bank has slashed Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) projection for 2021 to just 1%, from 2.2% originally forecast,...

Antibody levels, generated by two jabs of Sinovac vaccine and a booster shot of AstraZeneca, is relatively lower than...

The Royal Irrigation Department has given an assurance that Bangkok will not be flooded by water from the Chao...

Thailand is in the process of procuring 120 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for next year, especially for children...

People living downstream of the Lam Chiang Krai reservoir, in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, have been advised...

Officials of the Thai embassy in Washington DC will meet with their American counterparts this week to facilitate the...

The Thai Foreign Ministry has expressed its appreciation to the Japanese government for its donation of 300,000 doses of...

As it closed until further notice, all the remaining patients in the heavily-flooded Bamnetnarong Hospital, in Thailand’s north-eastern province...

Abortion laws vary wildly around the world, with a minority of countries having outright bans. Tiny San Marino, which...

A Palestinian was killed Sunday by Israeli gunfire near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, amid...

Workers have been racing against time to build flood walls to protect several archaeological sites, located along the banks...

Antigen rapid test kits (ATKs) for home use will become more easily available in stores and at more affordable...

Thailand’s Chulabhorn hospital has launched a research project to study the immunity and safety of post COVID-19 vaccination in...

The operations centre of Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has agreed on further easing of lockdown restrictions...

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has announced that the Busarakam field hospital officially closed on September 20th after treating...

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health plans to administer at least one million doses of vaccines on Mahidol Day (September...

“Car mob” protesters gathered at the Asoke-Sukhumvit intersection shortly before 2pm today (Sunday) for a convoy of cars and...

The State Railway of Thailand launched special train services yesterday for anyone, especially fans of K-pop idol Lalisa “Lisa”...

BANGKOK, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Thailand’s parliament on Wednesday started debating draft legislation outlawing torture and enforced disappearance, following years of delay and civil...

Staple vegetables, such as chili, eggplant and cucumber, are now being grown on the roofs, in the tires and...

Approval was granted today (Wednesday) for the construction of the controversial 70-billion-baht long Yuam River diversion project when the...

Thailand’s National Health Security Office (NHSO) has paid a total of 157.29 million baht in compensation to 3,224 people...

Almost 130,000 youths in Thailand, aged between 6 and 18, were found to be infected with COVID-19 from April...

The cabinet agreed to allocate about 946.3 million baht from the Central Fund today (Tuesday), for the Thai Red...

Today (Tuesday) Thailand’s cabinet approved, in principle, a measure to attract “high potential” foreigners, including wealthy retirees and specialists,...

The ethics committee of Thailand’s opposition Pheu Thai party decided today (Monday) to propose to the party’s executive committee...

Khunying Wimon Chiamcharoen died on Monday September 13th, 2021. She was 85 years old, but the great Thai novelist...

SEOUL, Sept 13 (Reuters) – North Korea carried out successful tests of a new long-range cruise missile over the...

The Ministry of Public Health will vaccinate as many as 100,000 pregnant women against COVID-19 between today (Monday September...

Over 84% of those who have died from COVID-19 in Thailand were not vaccinated, or did not have an...

SHANGHAI, Sept 8 (Reuters) – China’s crackdown on “fan culture” is aimed at maintaining public order and will not...

Thailand’s opposition Pheu Thai party is not concerned whether the constitutional amendments will be approved by the Senate, as...

The Thai Medical Sciences Department has reported a 20% COVID-19 infection rate among people undergoing tests in the past...

In a pre-emptive move, crowd control police swooped on a group of hardcore “Talugas” protesters as they converged at...