Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej piqued global interest this week when he suggested the formation of a rice cartel with other producers, a government spokesman said.
Workers in Southeast Asia's shrimp industry suffer regular abuse and sometimes live in what amounts to virtual slavery, a human-rights organization said Wednesday.
The latest rival of Thailand's new Prime Minister isn't the opposition party or the junta he replaced. It's the celebrated soothsayer who says he's going down
Many beaches in Southern Thailand are overrun with Western travelers, but the quiet stretch of powdery sand known as Rai Lay, on Krabi Island -- only accessible by boat -- is an exception. Its towering limestone cliffs and tropical foliage, and the crystal-blue waters of the Andaman Sea, make this low-key hideaway a romantic alternative to places like Phuket.
Samak Sundaravej is handily elected Thailand's Prime Minister, but with a mandate that's far from secure -- and an exiled Thaksin Shinawatra waiting in the wings
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej piqued global interest this week when he suggested the formation of a rice cartel with other producers, a government spokesman said.
Workers in Southeast Asia's shrimp industry suffer regular abuse and sometimes live in what amounts to virtual slavery, a human-rights organization said Wednesday.
The latest rival of Thailand's new Prime Minister isn't the opposition party or the junta he replaced. It's the celebrated soothsayer who says he's going down
Many beaches in Southern Thailand are overrun with Western travelers, but the quiet stretch of powdery sand known as Rai Lay, on Krabi Island -- only accessible by boat -- is an exception. Its towering limestone cliffs and tropical foliage, and the crystal-blue waters of the Andaman Sea, make this low-key hideaway a romantic alternative to places like Phuket.
Samak Sundaravej is handily elected Thailand's Prime Minister, but with a mandate that's far from secure -- and an exiled Thaksin Shinawatra waiting in the wings
Polls opened Sunday in Thailand's first national election after a military coup, with loyalists of deposed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra expected to capture the most votes, The Associated Press reported.
DR: This is Talk Asia. I'm Dan Rivers. I'm with Thailand's "Condom King," Mechai Viravaidya. Thank you for talking to us. People credit you with slashing the AIDS infection rate in Thailand, I think from something like, I think it was up at 140,000-plus cases per year in 1991, down to about 20,000 in 2003. Remarkable success, far more than the neighboring countries. That must be very gratifying for you.
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Next year's Johnnie Walker Classic is to remain in Phuket following the postponement of an alcohol advertising ban by Thailand's post-coup government, organizers have said.
Suspected Muslim separatist insurgents raided a local government administration office in southern Thailand and shot to death two male engineers and wounded a female clerk Wednesday, police said.
Three-times winners Thailand have been drawn with bitter rivals Myanmar and Malaysia in the group stages of next year's ASEAN Football Championships, while co-hosts Singapore will meet Vietnam and Indonesia.
South Korea's Hee-Won Han fired a five-under par 67 to win the $1.3 million (euro1.03 million) Honda LPGA Thailand at the Amata Spring Country Club on Sunday.
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Five days after seizing power in a bloodless coup, Thailand's military junta announced Sunday that anyone participating in political gatherings will face "tough and swift penalties" including up to five years in jail and fines.
Thailand's military has banned political activity and detained four top members from the administration of Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a bloodless military coup this week.
Thailand's long-reigning king endorsed the bloodless military coup that ousted the country's prime minister, according to a televised statement, and the general who seized power promised to restore civilian rule within a year.
The United States has urged Americans to reconsider any travel to Thailand while Britain told its citizens living there to stay in their homes, after the Thai military toppled the country's prime minister in a coup.
At least 10 bombs exploded, nearly simultaneously, at commercial banks across predominantly Muslim southern Thailand Thursday, killing one person and wounding 18 others, authorities said.
Three Thai security officials were killed Wednesday by a bomb planted on a railway in the southern province of Songkla in a troubled Muslim-dominated region, police and military officials said.
All day and all night at the factory that makes Durex condoms in an industrial suburb of Bangkok, young Thai women grab handfuls of pink-ribbed condoms, stretch them one at a time between their fin...
Three people were killed and more than a dozen others were wounded in Thailand's troubled south when more than 30 bombs exploded Thursday in police stations and government offices across three Muslim-dominated provinces, according to Thailand's military.
Thailand's Thammanoon Srirot moved into a one-shot lead at the Malaysian Open before officials decided to reduce the competition to 54 holes due to bad weather.
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The central bank governor who presided over Thailand's 1997 financial crisis has been ordered by a court to pay back the 180 billion baht ($4.61 billion) plus interest of reserves he spent trying to defend the currency.
Thailand has been criticized by the United States over its human rights record, particularly its treatment of its citizens in the troubled southern regions.
We received thousands of e-mails in the days after December's tsunamis from people seeking news of friends and relatives in areas affected by the disaster.
Thailand's tsunami death toll could reach 8,000, with more than half of those foreign tourists holidaying in the nation's southern resorts when the disaster struck.
The Spanish Cabinet on Thursday approved a $68 million (50 million euro) line of credit for emergency aid to countries affected by the tsunami tragedy, the government announced after the body's weekly meeting.
Peter Heydemann of Chicago was vacationing in Thailand with his family when the tide began to slowly rise early Sunday. He watched from his hotel as the street below became flooded by what he thought was just an unusually high tide. Thinking the worst had passed, he walked down to investigate.
One of the world's largest relief efforts gained momentum Tuesday as countries and aid organizations made more donations of money, supplies and personnel to areas ravaged by earthquake-triggered tsunamis.
Many families of foreign tourists who were traveling in south Asia during the tsunamis have been waiting for days for word on the safety of their relatives.
An explosion in the southern Thai town of Sungaikolok has killed two people -- a boy and a government security worker -- and wounded seven others, police say.
Buddhists in Thailand have implored Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to end violence targeting them on an almost daily basis in the south of the country.
Nine Buddhists, including two policemen, were killed in a series of shootings in southern Thailand's bloodiest 24 hours since a government crackdown on a riot last week left 85 Muslims dead.
A local official has been beheaded in the south of Thailand in what appeared to be a revenge killing after 85 people died at the hands of government forces last week.
Two bombs have rocked markets in southern Thailand hours before Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to address the nation on the deaths of 85 protesters.
Thailand's prime minister has said security forces made mistakes handling a group of Muslim rioters and has expressed regret that nearly 80 people died of suffocation while in custody.
Thailand's prime minister has called an emergency meeting on bird flu after the deaths of a woman and her daughter raised concerns the virus could be passed between people.
A marketplace bombing in southern Thailand Thursday morning killed one person and wounded at least 23 others -- nine seriously -- police and hospital officials said.
Authorities in Thailand are bracing for possible revenge attacks after police killed more than 100 assailants in the predominantly Muslim south earlier this week.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has vowed to root out "a ring of troublemakers" who launched a series of attacks on security outposts in the nation's south that left over 100 people dead.
Thailand is struggling to contain a wave of violence in the southern part of the country as the government comes under fire after a weekend bomb attack.
Two more children have died of bird flu, bringing the human toll from the disease to at least 14, as world health experts warned against panic in stricken countries.
Health experts are gathering for an emergency meeting in Rome as deaths from the disease mount in Asia and fears rise the illness may have reached Europe.
The World Health Organization has called for a united international effort -- similar to the SARS response -- to combat bird flu as the human death toll from the virus mounts.
Thai officials have confirmed the country's first human death from bird flu, while Indonesia has become the latest nation to be hit by the outbreak that is spreading rapidly throughout Asia.
Two Buddhist monks have been slashed to death in separate roadside attacks in southern Thailand, two days after a similar attack which police blamed on Muslim extremists.
More than 800,000 chickens have died in Thailand just a few hundred miles from Vietnam's infamous bird flu, which claimed its fifth life at the weekend.
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