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Thai tax authorities have seized assets worth about $34.2 million from family members of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, an official said Thursday.
Thais celebrated their revered king's 80th birthday Wednesday, honoring the world's longest-reigning monarch with festivities and prayers amid concerns about his declining health and potentially divisive elections.
Thailand's revered king pleaded for unity among his people in his annual birthday speech Tuesday, less than a month before the first general elections since a coup toppled an elected government last year.
A bomb killed six people and injured 20 Tuesday in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, an army spokesman said.
Vote-buying is an old practice in Thai politics, but one candidate for December's Thai election has reportedly come up with a new tactic — handing out Viagra instead of cash.
Unidentified gunmen in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand killed four local government employees Wednesday in the same district where a prominent political party leader was campaigning, police said.
A Thai air force pilot has been suspended from flying duties after allegedly landing his helicopter in the countryside to collect wild mushrooms for his mother, a spokesman said Friday.
Six proposed dams on the Mekong River could displace up to 75,000 villagers and harm hundreds of species like the endangered giant catfish and Irrawaddy dolphin, conservationists warned Tuesday.
Thailand's much revered king was cleared for release from the hospital Wednesday after more than three weeks of treatment for weakness and a colon infection, the palace said.
Trumpets and rhythmic chants echoed across the Chao Praya River on Monday in a rare procession of gilded boats honoring Thailand's 79-year-old king, who has been hospitalized for three weeks and was unable to attend the tribute.
Thailand's military-installed government Tuesday lifted martial law in more than half of the 400 districts where it remained after being imposed during a coup last year, a government spokesman said.
Microsoft Corp., seeking to expand in the medical sector, has agreed to acquire the assets of a privately held, Thailand-based health information system company, the software company said Monday.
Marksmen cruised rivers in northeastern Thailand on Sunday hunting for 11 crocodiles that scampered away from a farm during floods last week.
At Bangkok's watery gates, Buddhist monks cling to a shrinking spit of land around their temple as they wage war against the relentlessly rising sea.
Police with assault rifles hunted Friday for 36 crocodiles that escaped from a farm in northeastern Thailand when their pens were flooded after heavy rains, an official said.
A suspected pedophile being hunted by Interpol contributed to an online forum for teachers, and police say they believe he wrote under a pseudonym about the risks of catching HIV from oral sex and how to erase pornographic computer files "so no one will see."
Six Western tourists and two Thai guides died after flash floods swept them away while they were exploring a cave at a southern Thai national park, police said Sunday. At least one tourist survived.
Thailand's beloved and influential king was hospitalized Saturday after feeling weakness on the right side of his body, the royal palace said.
Half of the systems used to detect wind shear at the Phuket airport were not working at the time of the weekend plane crash that killed 89 people, a Thai official said Tuesday.
A plane carrying foreign tourists crashed Sunday as it tried to land in stormy weather on the resort island of Phuket, engulfing some passengers in flames while others kicked out windows to escape the smoke-filled cabin. At least 88 people were killed.
A fire in a popular hotel early Wednesday injured 16 people, and it took three hours to extinguish because the 30-year-old building had no sprinkler system, a police official said.
Unscrupulous vendors in Thailand have been selling meat of the deadly puffer fish disguised as salmon, causing the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years, a doctor said Thursday.
Suspected Muslim insurgents shot and killed two Buddhist civilians and wounded a third in southern Thailand on Sunday, while a bomb wounded 11 people, including five policemen, police said.
The Thai government abruptly scrapped plans to sue Google after the U.S. company agreed to remove from a Web site video clips deemed insulting to the country's revered king, an official said Friday.
Your editorial (Chattanooga, Times 20 July 1990) clearly points to a sound policy intiative in Southeast Asia.
Candidates in the upcoming general election in Thailand haven't made human rights an issue, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. The election, scheduled for Dec. 23, is to replace the military government that took power in a bloodless coup in September 2006.
Not much can bring the life of the noisy, traffic-clogged heart of Bangkok to a halt. But on Wednesday the streets were hushed, the cars and buses banished.
The ancient architecture, authentic foods and beautiful beaches make a cheap holiday vacation in Thailand a treasure. The people are fun, friendly and love to talk to tourists.
The Bangkok Post has always been a bastion of the free press, and they have a long history of great breaking news along with their friends at Asia Times Online. This week the front page was taken up with the Headline, Howard Faces up to 26 years in Jail.
While it could never be classified as one of Thailand's prime diving areas, Koh Chang Marine National Park does have some healthy fringing reefs, an interesting wreck, and several snorkeling sites. In general, visibility is low, about 5 to 10 meters.
No this isn't about so-called ''Zionists'' mistreating ''Palestinians". And-- It isn't because of U.S. policy in Iraq In fact, its not even because someone had the absolute gall to name a Teddy Bear Mohammed...or even Buddha-Bear.
Our biggest handicap in the war we're fighting is a failure to understand the nature of the war.
Parliamentary candidates in Thailand's upcoming election are trying to buy the votes of elderly men by passing out free Viagra, a local government official said Friday.
Vote-buying is an old practice in Thai politics, but one candidate for December's Thai election has reportedly come up with a new tactic—handing out Viagra instead of cash. The allegation, made Thursday by a campaign worker against a rival party, comes as rules about handing …
A Muslim military informant was shot and crucified, while two Buddhist men were beheaded Wednesday by suspected Islamic separatists in Thailand's restive south, police said. ADVERTISEMENT
This pub just off busy Silom Road recently changed its name from the Irish X-change, to fall in with the new owners' outlets of the same name in Phuket and Pattaya.
Two studies led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that people infected with HIV in Thailand die from the disease significantly sooner than those with HIV living in other parts of the world.
- A proposed new law to boost patriotism in Thailand would be "chaotic" because it would require motorists to stop when the national anthem is played twice a day, lawmakers said Friday.
Local website operators will be given a one-month deadline to ensure the privacy of people under the age of 18 on the internet or face legal action.
Millions of drivers in Thailand will have to stop in their cars when the minute-long national anthem is played twice a day, if a new law is passed. But it is feared that such a move would cause chaos on the roads.
Thai law-makers say a proposed new law to boost patriotism in Thailand would be "chaotic" because it would require motorists to stop when the national anthem is played twice a day.
"An international think tank yesterday said the Philippines is hosting several de facto US bases amid the termination of its basing agreement with Washington in 1991 and sees a long-term and stronger American military presence in the country in the coming years.
Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.
Thai Customs officers said Saturday they have rescued more than 100 pangolins and arrested three men attempting to smuggle the endangered animals to China, where they were destined for the cooking pot.
Thailand is the world's biggest rice exporter and roasted bandicoot rat has become a popular delicacy at roadside stalls despite costing twice as much as pork or chicken.
Three policemen and 7 civilians were injured when insurgents detonated a bomb hidden near a pork stall in a fresh market here Friday afternoon. The bomb was detonated by a car remote control at 2:30 pm when the three policemen were buying pork from the stall.
A campaign is underway to chastise Burma's military regime, not through dialogue or sanctions, but by flooding the country's foreign embassies with women's underwear, an activist said.
The Moei River separating Myanmar from Thailand is a modest-sized waterway, wide enough to make someone think twice before swimming to the other side but sufficiently narrow to allow smugglers to pile motorcycles, furniture and food onto rubber rafts and paddle across, as they do …
The Museum of Forensic Medicine, where this elephantiasis-swollen body part is to be found, is hidden in a back block of the Siriraj Hospital.
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