With political parties beating the war drums, it seems that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has realized that he cannot...

Former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim made a political comeback today by winning a by-election at Port Dickson, based...

The repatriation of the first group of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh is likely to begin after the next meeting...

A Royal Command has been issued by His Majesty the King to endorse the government’s 20-year National Strategy effective...

The Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA) is proposing three new visa options for Chinese tourists, which it believes...

Key Pheu Thai Party figure, Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan, has insisted the party would not be ready to work with...

Wearing yellow, the colour of the late HM the King, thousands of people joined the medical staff of Siriraj...

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwon today confirmed that the government has replaced the leader of...

The Thai Foreign Ministry has dismissed rumours that Thailand is imposing a limited quota of visas for Chinese visitors...

NEW YORK/DUBAI (Reuters) – Media companies are pulling out of a Saudi investment conference because of growing outrage over...

ASEAN leaders have agreed to reduce disparity in development in the member countries during an informal gathering held on...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and other ASEAN leaders have arrived in Bali today for an informal gathering of the...

An ethnic Mon man implicated in the Saiyok National Park wildlife hunting trip told police he was forced by...

People watch Hurricane Michael October 10, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. Michael slammed into the Florida coast on October...

Only the Election Commission can decide whether ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s influence on Pheu Thai Party is against...

What was supposed to be Abhisit Vejjajiva’s stroll to a new term as the Democrat leader has apparently changed....

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its projection of Thailand’s economic growth for this year to 4.6% from...

Panthongtae Shinawatra, the only son of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was today indicted on money laundering charges in...

Governor of Phayao Province Narongsak Osatanakorn, said yesterday that the dramatic rescue operation at Tham Luang cave in Chiang...

Altogether 448 flights arriving at and departing from Suvarnabhumi international airport on Tuesday were delayed after a THAI Boeing...

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang, a gesture designed...

Forest rangers have found more evidence at the lodging in the compound of a forest monastery in Saiyok national...

The five Southeast Asian nations along the Mekong River, including Thailand, and Japan today adopted a new three-year strategy...

A day after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake killed at least 12 people along Haiti’s northwest coast, a strong aftershock sent...

BEIJING/PARIS (REUTERS) – China said on Sunday it was investigating Meng Hongwei for suspected wrongdoing after the head of...

YANGON (The Irrawaddy) —A recent US report portrays China as seeking privileged access and influence inside Myanmar in order...

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has a piece of advice for senior citizens:  They should not be sleeping, but...

India is to begin operating a daily direct flight between New Delhi and Phuket from Thursday and more direct...

Stateless Mong Thongdee’s dream of Thai citizenship has finally been fulfilled when Chiang Mai governor approved his application for...

Japan and Germany are interested in investing in Thailand’s new project to build a factory to assemble trains, said...

Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit of Future Forward Party spells out his vision in interview with ThaiPBS World

The state-run Transport Company will comply with the Chanthaburi provincial court’s order for it to pay 26 million baht...

Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit has made dismantling of what he describes as the “legacy” of the National Council for Peace and...

The medium-sized Bhum Jai Thai Party can be another beneficiary of a new electoral rule which essentially makes sure...

OSLO (Reuters) – Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo,...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha reaffirmed today that general elections will take place on February 24 next year and insisted...

The spiritual leader of the Karen tribesmen at Kaeng Krachan forest, 107-year -old Ko-ee Memi, died at the King...

Thailand has been removed from the blacklist of countries affected by illegal ivory trade, said Mr Somkiart Suntornpitakkool, director...

The World Bank has adjusted its projection of Thailand’s economic growth for the entire year to 4.5%, from the...

Energy Minister Siri Chirapongphan has hinted that retail price of diesel may be increased above 30 baht/litre if global...

Consumers’ confidence index for the month of September dropped slightly to 82.3 from August’s 83.2 – the first time...

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha this morning made a donation of 5 million baht to help victims of Indonesia’s...

Hopes of finding people alive in the debris from the earthquake and tsunami that struck Palu in Sulawesi of...

Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly receiving and...

JAKARTA (Reuters) – The confirmed death toll from an earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has risen to...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed authorities concerned to quickly help restore Thailand’s tourism image in wake of recent...

STOCKHOLM (REUTERS) – Some of the actions Aung San Suu Kyi has taken as Myanmar’s civilian leader are “regrettable”...

Despite mounting pressure from various political quarters,  Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha insisted today the four Cabinet members who have...

The son of former Democrat secretary-general Suthep Thuagsuban and three associates were acquitted by the Appeals Court which overturned...

Twenty-six Thai students were today flown back to Thailand from Indonesia after they and six other Thais were evacuated...

A new-born baby miraculously escaped almost unscathed after she was apparently dropped from the fifth floor of an apartment...

PALU, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesia scrambled on Monday to get help into quake-hit Sulawesi island as survivors streamed away...

Inflation has continued to rise 15 months in a row to an average of 1.14 per cent for the...

The newly-appointed immigration police chief today ordered his subordinates at all international airports and border check-points to stop demanding...

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak came to the defence today of  four cabinet members who are facing pressure to...

Future Forward acting party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit announced today that he is ready to be the next prime minister...

Japan has overtaken  Thailand to become the top destination for Chinese vacationers during this Golden Week  holiday of China,...

Few people believe Warong Dechgitvigrom could dethrone Abhisit Vejjajiva in the Democrat Party’s leadership battle, but flying under the...

Director of Don Mueang international airport and its the director for security were on Saturday suspended from active duty...

PALU, Indonesia (Reuters) – At least 384 people were killed, many swept away as giant waves crashed onto beaches,...

Autopsy conducted on the body of a Chinese female tourist died at a waterfall in Hat Yai district of...

Industry Minister Uttama Savanayana was this aftetnoon chosen as the leader of the pro-junta Palang Pracharat Party. Speaking after...

The Energy Policy Committee has agreed to inject another 70 satang/litre to one baht/litre subsidy from the Oil Fund...

Industry Minister Uttama Savanayana announced today that he was ready to lead the pro-junta Palang Pracharat Party. Mr Uttama...

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Many bodies were found on Saturday along the shoreline of the Indonesian city of Palu on...

Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Friday that he hoped to shame the powerful countries in the United...

 An Australian tourist was seriously injured when he shot himself in his head with a handgun at a shooting...

Residents make their way along a street full of debris after an earthquake and tsunami hit Palu, on Sulawesi...

President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, while highlighting the role of the media in building democracy, said yesterday that criticisms...

Cold weather has arrived in Chiang Mai with temperature on top of Doi Inthanon, the highest mountain peak, measured...

JAKARTA (Reuters) – At least 30 people were killed when a strong earthquake and tsunami hit the city of...

The Tham Luang Khun Nam Nang Non in Chiang Rai province which has been closed for renovation to restore...

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said on Friday that hackers stole digital login codes allowing them to take over nearly...

Varawut Silpa-archa of Chartthaipattana makes education reform his key platform.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) broke its long silence about its probes into the procurement of the fake bomb...

He was once one of Thailand’s most celebrated boxing heroes and, undoubtedly, one of the richest as well.  But...

All ageing passenger vans which are over ten years old will be put out of service starting October 1...

An elderly former engineer who shot dead a 17-year-old student allegedly in a fit of anger following a road...

The Central Administrative Court has rejected an appeal of tobacco companies to revoke Public Health Ministry’s graphic health warning...

The National Credit Bureau (NCB) today echoed concerns raised by the Bank of Thailand (BoT) over rising non-performing loans...

Malaysian Prime Minisrer Mahathir Mohamad has predicted the collapse of Umno which is the backbone of the Barisan Nasional...

A general view shows residential and commercial buildings on Hong Kong island on September 27, 2018. Two of Hong...

The top executive of a company that supplied the controversial GT200 remote substance detectors worth altogether nine million baht...

The board of Rubber Authority of Thailand will ask for 9 billion baht from the government’s Central Fund to...

Scarcely anyone knew about the rescue of four Thais trapped in flooded Tham Luang cave by two British cave...

An infuriated Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha today hit back at veteran politician Sanoh Thienthong who had earlier cast...

A Southern Thai separatist group is optimistic about the appointment of a controversial former inspector general of police of...

Alleged Laotian drug baron Xaysana Keopimpa who has a penchant for sports cars and links with some of Bangkok’s...

The Criminal Court on Tuesday acquitted former director-general of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) Tarit Pengdit and four...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today fired the Pattaya City mayor and replaced him with Sonthaya Khunplum, a political advisor...

Cabinet ministers are free to work with the Palang Pracharath party so long as it is not against the...

A plane flies in front of a full moon in Sydney on September 25, 2018.

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam admitted this morning that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be spared the two-year...

Eleven workers were injured, three of them seriously, after a historic pagoda under renovation at Wat Phrayatham Voraviharn in...

An elderly Englishman and his Thai wife who were reported to have gone missing mysteriously from their home in...

Four whale sharks have been sighted hunting for fish near Koh Talu, about three kilometres from the coast of...

The use of teak wood to decorate the interior of the new parliament building under construction is meant to...

Police are investigating the fatal plunge of a Chinese female tourist at a waterfall in Hat Yai district of...