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Ancient sculpture discovered in Buri Ram

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COVID cases on the rise, with 1,880 cases and 11 deaths reported last week

COVID-19 infections in Thailand are rising, especially cases of the easily transmissible KP.2 sub-variant, also known as FLiRT, with a total of 1,880 infections being reported between May 5th and 11th, 11 of whom have died, according to the Department of Disease Control. Since the beginning of the year, to...
Body of Thai woman found in Taiwan’s Keelung city

The remains of a Thai woman, who is believed to have been murdered, was discovered on Friday in a wooded area in the port city of Keelung, on the north-eastern coast of Taiwan. According to a TVBS report, the victim sent a message to her boyfriend from her cell phone,...

On the fiery frontline of Thailand’s war on smog

Thaksin’s half-baked peace plan for Myanmar unlikely to take off

Suspect wanted in container case held in South Korea

Udom ‘Nose’ Taepanich: Dividing Thailand with a joke

Roadside haircuts and other street side treats

Cabinet caps diesel and cooking gas prices, cuts electricity price for small users

On the fiery frontline of Thailand’s war on smog

Thaksin’s half-baked peace plan for Myanmar unlikely to take off

Suspect wanted in container case held in South Korea

Udom ‘Nose’ Taepanich: Dividing Thailand with a joke

Roadside haircuts and other street side treats

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Ancient sculpture discovered in Buri Ram

The Fine Arts Department today sent archaeologists to Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary in the northeastern province of Buri Ram after...

May 13, 2024

COVID cases on the rise, with 1,880 cases and 11 deaths reported last week
- May 13, 2024
Udom ‘Nose’ Taepanich: Dividing Thailand with a joke
- May 13, 2024
Suspect wanted in container case held in South Korea
- May 13, 2024
Body of Thai woman found in Taiwan’s Keelung city
- May 13, 2024
Prince Harry, Meghan end Nigeria tour with Lagos visit
- May 13, 2024

Academics liken senate election to a lucky dip

Academics have expressed concern that the election of the new Senate, by only allowing senatorial candidates to elect from among...

May 12, 2024

PM Srettha to visit France, Italy and Japan next week
- May 9, 2024
Anutin claims party was “double-crossed” in parliament over cannabis bill
- May 9, 2024
Pheu Thai warned not to “mess with” decade-old rice pledging scheme
- May 9, 2024
Military conditionally offers to buy old pledging scheme rice
- May 9, 2024
Deputy Finance Minister Krisada asked to reconsider his resignation
- May 8, 2024

Thai economists declare support for Bank of Thailand and its governor

A group of Thai economists have launched a signature campaign to rally support for the Bank of Thailand and its...

May 8, 2024

Over 720,000 NPLs resolved by the GSB in the first quarter of this year
- May 8, 2024
Phumtham comes under fire for comments about 10-year-old rice being edible
- May 7, 2024
Cabinet caps diesel and cooking gas prices, cuts electricity price for small users
- May 7, 2024
PM insists he has no plan to dismiss central bank governor
- May 7, 2024
Is Pheu Thai right in blaming the BOT?
- May 7, 2024

Understanding sufficiency economy

Some 16 years ago, an elderly man who spent most of his life living in a boat and under a...

An unspoken rule is that you shall not turn the concept into some kind of a crusade, because a campaign would one day “cross the line” and then “simplicity” could morph into something else.

May 10, 2024

Srettha still struggling with funding for digital wallet scheme

Thailand's ruling coalition continues to juggle with the challenge of arranging funding for the digital wallet scheme that involves cash...

April 24, 2024

Thailand walks aisle to marriage equality: What it means for same-sex couples – and the rest of us
- April 6, 2024
Human-elephant relationship is a win-win
- March 13, 2024

Suspect wanted in container case held in South Korea

South Korean police have taken into custody a man who is suspected of involvement in the murder of a South...

May 13, 2024

Body of Thai woman found in Taiwan’s Keelung city
- May 13, 2024
Prince Harry, Meghan end Nigeria tour with Lagos visit
- May 13, 2024

Thaksin’s half-baked peace plan for Myanmar unlikely to take off

A hasty initiative by paroled former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to mediate a peace process in strife-torn Myanmar is...

May 13, 2024

Roadside haircuts and other street side treats
- May 13, 2024
All parties unsettled by Thaksin’s unofficial role in Myanmar’s civil war
- May 10, 2024

Roadside haircuts and other street side treats

Faced with modernity, makeshift barber shops along the streets of Vietnam are now dwindling in number. The few that remain,...

May 13, 2024

Udom ‘Nose’ Taepanich: Thailand’s provocative stand-up comic
- May 11, 2024
Phatthalung: Paradise for the slow-life aficionado
- May 7, 2024
Where Are The Rainmakers?
- May 5, 2024

Two gunned down in Pattani

A village headman and the chief administrator of a sub-district administrative organisation (SAO) were shot and killed in Nongchik district...

May 8, 2024

Four injured by motorcycle bomb blast in Narathiwat Monday night
- May 7, 2024
2nd consignment of cadmium slag moved from Samut Sakhon to Tak
- May 6, 2024
Motorcyclist plunges into cable duct manhole in Mae Sot district
- May 6, 2024

Udom ‘Nose’ Taepanich: Dividing Thailand with a joke

Stand-up comedian Udom “Nose” Taepanich has again ignited controversy with a joke, this time drawing fury from conservatives and royalists....

In 2022, his flagship business, Made In Happy Land, made a profit of 43.6 million baht from revenue of 230.8 million. His souvenir design and distribution company made a profit of under 1 million baht...