A GROUP professing to lead the separatist insurgency in Thailand's south announced a ceasefire in a satellite television broadcast yesterday. Three men from a group calling themselves Tai Ruam Pak Tai…

My dream was always to go to Laos before it got Starbucked to death by my people, before a great deluge of tourism washed over its enchantment. I was told to get there fast, before the crowds came. But you can’t reach Laos directly from the UK, which was how I found myself in Chiang Mai – a city in northern Thailand that, I’d heard, was also fairly untouched. Wrong. Chiang Mai, whatever anyone …

PREAH VIHEAR, CAMBODIA — Cambodian and Thai troops came close to a shootout in a disputed border region as the confrontation over land surrounding an ancient temple entered its fourth day, a Camb…

PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian general said Friday that his troops and Thai soldiers engaged in a tense armed confrontation when Cambodian monks sought to celebrate Buddhist lent nea…

If the criminal case is established, it would be the second involving bribery of foreign public officials and the first involving overseas projects financed with low-interest loans provided by the gov…

VIENTIANE, Laos – Monks in saffron robes and flip-flops stroll the streets at dawn, collecting alms. Children play marbles and hopscotch on the sidewalk of the city’s main drag as a chicken pecks at the roadside near a basket of mangoes.

ผู้จัดการออนไลน์– ทหารไทยกับทหารกัมพูชาเล็งปืนเข้าหากันในคืนวันพฤหัสบดี (17 ก.ค.) แต่ความตึงเครียดได้ลดลง หลังจากระดับผู้บังคับบัญชาพบหารือกันที่วัดแห่งหนึ่ง ตรงลาดเนินใกล้กับปราสาทพระวิหารซึ่งทหารไทยกับทหารกัมพูชาอยู่ที่นั่นมาเป็นวันที่สี่

Some of the foreign-born athletes who will be competing for the United States at the Olympics in Beijing next month, listed by sport with country of birth in parentheses:

BANGKOK, July 18 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Thailand reiterated its intent to resolve its border dispute with Cambodia by peaceful means as a military standoff between hundreds of Thai and Cambodian facing o…

BANGKOK, Jul 18 (IPS) - Amornchai Sirisai has been a regular visitor to the Thai-Cambodian border close to where a 10th century Hindu temple sits atop a steep cliff. But it is not tourism that takes t…