The attack at 3.30am came just five hours after Perth travel agent Michelle Smith was fatally stabbed in the heart during a botched bag snatch less than 10 kilometres away. ...

Around 50,000 "Red Shirt" supporters from across Thailand converged on central Bangkok Saturday to mark the second anniversary of a deadly crackdown on street protests, police said. It was one of the largest mobilisations of the mainly rural and working-class Red Shirts since 2010 protests in support of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra descended into the kingdom's worst violence in decades. ...

Australians in Thailand and Indonesia have told of mass panic as people pushed and shoved their way out of shopping centres when last night's earthquake hit and tsunami warnings sounded. [caption id="attachment_7370" align="aligncenter" width="585" caption="Acehnese attend to patients evacuated out of hospital buildings in capital Banda Aceh after a powerful earthquake hit the western coast of Sumatra in Ac ...

A strain of malaria that is not treatable by the most effective drug is now knocking on the Thai-Burma (also known as Myanmar) border and growing in its drug resistance. According to Reuters, there is danger that the drug-resistant version may spread through India and Africa. A new study published in The Lancet showed how the plasmodium falciparum form of the disease, which was observed in Cambodia as early ...

Two young Swedish couples and their Thai driver were killed instantly yesterday morning when their rented car was hit head-on by a six-wheel refrigerator truck in Takua Thung District, Phang Nga, Phuket. [caption id="attachment_5356" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Scene of the crash in Phuket"][/caption] The dead were identified as: Elin Marita Hedbris age 21, Frida Madeleine Falk age 22,  Anders T ...

Thai authorities have beefed up security in parts of the capital and other areas popular with tourists after the United States and Israel warned of a possible terrorist attack. [caption id="attachment_4836" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Tourists walk along Khao San road in Bangkok January 14, 2012."][/caption] The army was helping the police in providing security, army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha told ...

A British tourist was electrocuted in Thailand while reaching for a bottle of water from a fridge. [caption id="attachment_4767" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Wiring in Thailand can look like this!"][/caption] Friends believe Grant Harrison, 36, had been sunbathing by the pool on the island of Koh Phangan and was killed when he went to get a drink. The Middlesbrough fan had gone backpacking with h ...

It is a top tourist destination - but what the guidebooks don't tell you is that Thailand's roads are lethal. Now a group of mothers whose sons died in a bus crash are campaigning to change that. [caption id="attachment_4484" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Thailand road toll for US tourists is second highest after Honduras"][/caption] With the Christmas holidays winding down and the weather closing ...

China has conducted fruitful economic and trade cooperation with Vietnam and Thailand, Vice Minister of Commerce Chen Jian said on Monday, a day before Vice President Xi Jinping starts his visit to the two neighboring countries. [caption id="attachment_4066" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L Front) receives a bunch of flowers during a welcome ceremony held in Hanoi ...

According to an HSBC Expat Explorer survey, results show that Thailand is the number one expat destination when compared globally across economic and lifestyle factors, this for the second time since the survey started four years ago. [caption id="attachment_3984" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Thailand voted No.1 for expats based on economy and lifestyle."][/caption] Very surprisingly, some countr ...