Built during the reign of King Nari the Great, the Wichaiya Prasit Fort, or Bangkok City Fort, is one of two such fortresses built to house a French military garrison in Bangkok in 1688. It […]
Lydia Riach, a middle-aged Scottish woman, is fighting for her life in a Bangkok hospital, the victim of a bag-snatch theft that went horribly wrong. Lydia, from Inverness, Scotland, was walking with her husband, Douglas […]
The pilot of a Bangkok Airways flight was reportedly killed and some 50 others injured following a crash landing on the Thailand holiday island of Koh Samui this afternoon. Initial reports say the flight was […]
Indonesian authorities have suspended a land and air search for a Merpati Nusantara flight that lost contact with air traffic controllers Sunday morning over the rugged Papua forest in eastern Indonesia until Monday. The DeHavilland […]
Internet users in Asia and the US should experience higher data throughput speeds between the two regions when the Asia-America Gateway (AAG) comes into operation next month. Constructed at a cost of more than US$550 […]
Fresh claims in The Washington Post that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran secret interrogation cells in Thailand have been denied by the country’s Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, ahead of US Secretary of State Hillary […]
Nine people have been killed and more than 40 others injured in almost simultaneous early morning bomb blast at two Jakarta luxury hotels. The Ritz-Carlton and the nearby JW Marriott hotels in South Jakarta were […]
The Thailand government has ordered the closure of more than 1,000 summer schools for 15 days and asked the owners of internet cafes and gaming centers where young people play video games to shutdown for […]
Last week Pulitzer Prize winning and The New York Times (The Times) journalist, David Rohde escaped from seven months of Taliban captivity without the world ever knowing he was held hostage. Rohde, along with local […]
Three time Golden Globe Award nominee actor David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room early today (June 4, 2009). Mr Carradine will be well remembered for his roles as Kwai Chang Caine, […]
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors without Borders as they are otherwise known, runs the risk of creating a humanitarian crisis if it goes ahead with plans to withdraw from a refugee camp in Northern […]
An intergovernmental meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) has failed to reach an agreement on sharing influenza virus research material and access to vaccines, with the US placing profits ahead of the threat of […]