A Thai gardener behind a $20 million gem heist from a Saudi palace that has long soured relations between the two countries became a monk Thursday in hope of redeeming his karma.
Thailand's airport authorities searched an Air India flight for explosives after it landed in Bangkok following a bomb threat late on Wednesday, an airport official said.
Thailand is pursuing closer ties — and possible arms deals — with Russia, with relations between Thailand and its traditional partner, the US, cooling in the wake of a May 2014 coup.
A handful of Buddhist monks scuffled with troops in Thailand yesterday during a protest against what they called state interference in religious affairs and a bid to overthrow the governing body of their religion.
Thai police have broken up a major fake passport ring led by an Iranian known as "The Doctor" which sent thousands of passports to Middle Eastern customers trying to enter Europe, officers said.
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said yesterday that a general election will take place in 2017, amid criticism that a draft constitution unveiled last week would delay the poll.
Thai health officials are trying to trace dozens of people who may have come into contact with an elderly Omani man who tested positive for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the Health Ministry said Sunday.
A piece of suspected plane wreckage found off the east coast of southern Thailand on Saturday was unlikely to belong to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 which vanished nearly two years ago, said aviation experts.
When Bangkok lawyer Winyat Chatmontree was allowed to meet his client in detention at a Bangkok army base, Pratin Chankate shuffled in blindfolded and shackled by military guards.
Thailand's junta chief hit out Monday at critics of a controversial court verdict which sentenced two Myanmar migrant workers to death for murdering a pair of British tourists last year.
Aceh residents held memorial services yesterday on the 11th anniversary of the tsunami that killed at least 165,000 people in Indonesia’s westernmost province.
