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Two Filipino tourists were injured today when a cliff edge at the Haew Narok waterfall in Khao Yai national park crumbled. The waterfall has since been closed to all visitors indefinitely.
Thai beef farmers will rally in front of the Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday, to protest against the government’s plan to lift the import ban on US beef and offal into Thailand, as a part of the trade negotiations following the US imposition of 36% reciprocal tariffs on Thai imports to the US market.
Singaporeans vote on May 3 in an election that will test Prime Minister Lawrence Wong's leadership, as the wealthy city-state faces a turbulent global economy upended by US tariffs.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming three-nation visit to Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia demonstrates China’s commitment to reinforcing regional partnerships in Southeast Asia.
The world is staring at the threat of an economic recession since April 3 when US President Donald Trump announced “Liberation Day” by imposing sweeping tariffs on all countries.
More than 1.7 million people, both Thais and foreigners, celebrated the water-splashing Songkran festival in Bangkok.
A 26-year-old British man, who was reported missing after losing contact with his family in Wales in March, was found safe in Krabi province today.
Many venders selling food and drinks to tourists from their rafts on the Kok River, in Chiang Rai’s Muang district, are complaining that they barely had any customers over the Songkran break, which they blame on contamination of the river with arsenic and other heavy metals, discharged by upstream gold mining activities in the Shan state of Myanmar.
A total of 138 people were killed and 1,002 others injured in 1,000 road accidents throughout the country during 4 days of the Songkran break, from April 11 to 14 , according to the Road Accident Prevention and Mitigation Command Centre.
The family of a 26-year-old British man visiting Thailand is seeking help in locating him, after losing contact on March 13.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will visit Thailand this week and is scheduled to meet Senior Gen Min Aung Hlaing and Thaksin Shinawatra in Bangkok.
The mound of debris from the collapsed SAO building has now been reduced from 26 metres to 20.5 metres high and is expected to be cleared this month. This will facilitate the recovery of any more bodies buried underneath, said Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt today.
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will question an environmental engineer today, who claims that he was not involved in the collapsed building project, despite his signature appearing on engineering documents.
The government-appointed investigating committee currently thinks that a change in the design of the elevator shaft of the State Audit Office building, reducing its wall thickness from 30cm to 25cm, may be the reason why the building collapsed when it was hit by tremors from an earthquake in Myanmar on March 28, according to Professor Amorn Pimanmas PhD, president of the Association of Structural Engineers.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, a moderate who extended the country’s political freedoms but was criticized for lackluster leadership, has died of heart disease. He was 85.
A flash flood struck Ban Huay Hom in Mae Tha District of Lamphun province in the middle of last night, in which two people died, two people went missing and causing damage to eight residences.
