Thai med school applicants busted for high-tech cheating

3 women hoping to become doctors were caught red-handed in an elaborate scheme involving multiple gadgets

• May 11, 2016

Elderly tourist couple testifies over brutal beating caught on tape

Rosemary and Lewis Owen and their 43-year-old son were vacationing in resort town when attacked; shocking video goes viral

• May 2, 2016

Video shows family getting attacked in Thailand

Couple, son savagely attacked during family vacation in latest blow to country's image as welcoming tourist paradise

• Apr 29, 2016

Drunk drivers in Thailand may be sent to work in hospital morgues

To try to combat the carnage on the country's roads during the annual weeklong traditional New Year's holiday celebration, Thai authorities are going gory

• Apr 11, 2016

Blind fish that crawls on land holds clues to evolution

This small, cave-dwelling fish can walk and climb rocks like a four-footed mammal or amphibian

• Mar 25, 2016

Buddha-image issues: Thailand's monks urged to diet

A new study found soaring rates of obesity among the Buddhist country's clergy, and the government must pay for the healthcare

• Mar 16, 2016

Thai police say 5 arrested in rape, assault of French tourists

Police in eastern Thailand said that they have arrested several Cambodian sailors ​suspected of attacking four French tourists on a resort island

• Feb 28, 2016

Thai elephant gores Scottish tourist to death

Gareth Crowe and his 16-year-old stepdaughter were on a trek when the pachyderm they were riding threw, stabbed and stomped on him

• Feb 2, 2016

Flight 370 speculation surrounds Thai beach debris

Despite being far off from where data indicates missing plane went down, a curved piece of metal measuring with electrical wires draws scrutiny

• Jan 24, 2016

Thailand's junta arrests man for insulting king's dog

The charge of insulting the monarchy is being more aggressively used by the country's new military rulers seeking to exert greater control

• Dec 15, 2015

Big tuna: Chicken of the Sea won't net Bumble Bee

Thai Union Group gives up on $1.5 billion acquisition amid concerns about regulatory hurdles from the Justice Department

• Dec 4, 2015

Thailand vows to fix aviation problems after U.S. downgrade

Country is one of the world's top tourist destinations, and that industry accounts for about 7 percent of the Thai economy

• Dec 2, 2015

Nestle confirms labor abuse by Thai seafood supplers

Company's internal review shows migrant workers in Thailand's seafood industry toil in conditions akin to slavery

• Nov 23, 2015

Thailand flies 14 rescued orangutans back to Indonesia

As nation works to shed rep as animal black market hub, apes saved from captivity as tourist attractions have made it back home

• Nov 12, 2015

Police: Buddhist monks, military officers used teen sex ring

Authorities crack down on sex ring that lured underage girls to work as prostitutes in Thailand

• Nov 5, 2015

Bizarre piercings at Vegetarian Festival

Ritual piercings with unusual objects are a featured part of Phuket's Vegetarian Festival

• Oct 19, 2015
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Smog cloud shuts schools in Malaysia, spreads to Thailand

Slash-and-burn practices destroy huge areas of Indonesian forest, creating haze that blankets the archipelago and neighboring nations

• Oct 5, 2015

​Knife-wielding man kills 5 children in Thailand

Police say neighbor inflected savage attack after complaining about noise

• Sep 28, 2015

Thai police use colonoscope to get to bottom of diamond theft

For one Chinese woman in Bangkok, it turns out that a stolen 6-carat, $278,000 gemstone is not good for the digestive track

• Sep 13, 2015

Fireball over Thailand surprises motorists

The object most likely was a meteor; but it also could have been space debris making a fiery landing

• Sep 7, 2015

Key suspect in Thai bombing still on the run

Police say DNA suggests foreigner arrested near border was involved, but not the one who planted bomb that killed 20

• Sep 4, 2015

Thai police arrest man in Bangkok bomb case

Police say man identified only as a 28-year-old foreigner was holed up with bomb-making equipment, stacks of passports

• Aug 29, 2015

Thailand seeks U.S. help to find Bangkok bomber

Investigators will "cooperate on borrowing equipment that includes facial-recognition technology" prime minister says

• Aug 21, 2015

Global terror link "unlikely" in Bangkok bombing

"Security agencies have collaborated with intelligence agencies from a lot of countries and... come to the same preliminary conclusion" says military

• Aug 20, 2015

Costco accused of selling shrimp farmed by slaves

A California lawsuit says the retailer's products include prawns from Thailand, where human trafficking is widespread

• Aug 19, 2015

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