Another woman arrested off a flight from Thailand in late May smuggling dangerous drugs into Australia

Another woman arrested off a flight from Thailand in late May smuggling dangerous drugs into Australia

June 30, 2026

Crime, Culture, Media, Thailand:

Second passenger from Thailand arrested in Australia on alleged drug smuggling after officers found butanediol disguised as shower gel and later recovered steroid tablets. The… Read More ›

State chapter of European Union deal closed in Brussels. Talks targeted for completion by end of 2026

State chapter of European Union deal closed in Brussels. Talks targeted for completion by end of 2026

June 30, 2026

Economy, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Thailand and the EU have completed a key free trade agreement chapter on state enterprises, taking negotiations to 11 of 24 chapters. Both sides aim… Read More ›

People’s Party MP calls for stronger oversight of Chinese activities and trade investments in Thailand

People’s Party MP calls for stronger oversight of Chinese activities and trade investments in Thailand

June 30, 2026

Crime, Culture, Economy, Politics, Thailand:

People’s Party MP Sahasawat Khumkhong has hit back at Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jianwei’s warning over the term ‘Chinese grey capital’, blaming weak Thai regulation—not Chinese… Read More ›

Police raid and search the home of former Phuket deputy governor in widening corruption investigation

Police raid and search the home of former Phuket deputy governor in widening corruption investigation

June 30, 2026

Crime, Culture, Living, Politics, Thailand:

Former Phuket deputy governor Mr Rungruang Thimabutr’s arrest has uncovered a money trail linking jobs-for-cash exam bribery to a Phuket land document scam. Police say… Read More ›

Mother of girl who escaped Tokyo brothel jailed by Criminal Court in Bangkok for 7 years and 6 months

Mother of girl who escaped Tokyo brothel jailed by Criminal Court in Bangkok for 7 years and 6 months

June 30, 2026

Crime, Culture, Thailand:

Bangkok’s Criminal Court jailed a mother for 7½ years after convicting her of trafficking her 12-year-old daughter to Japan for prostitution. The girl’s escape exposed… Read More ›

PM orders top aides south from Paris as coordinated attacks torch a petrol station and injure tourists

PM orders top aides south from Paris as coordinated attacks torch a petrol station and injure tourists

June 29, 2026

Crime, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Southern insurgents launched coordinated attacks across Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, torching a petrol station and injuring two Malaysian tourists. PM Anutin orders an emergency security… Read More ›

First state visit to France by a Thai Monarch in six decades begins in Paris as King and Queen land

First state visit to France by a Thai Monarch in six decades begins in Paris as King and Queen land

June 29, 2026

Culture, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida have begun a landmark state visit to France, receiving the nation’s highest honours as President Emmanuel Macron hosts only… Read More ›

Thai Airways air hostess held in an Australian prison on heroin trafficking charges. Thai police seek details

Thai Airways air hostess held in an Australian prison on heroin trafficking charges. Thai police seek details

June 29, 2026

Crime, Media, Thailand:

Thai Airways flight attendant arrested after Australian border officers found more than 1kg of heroin hidden in 12 tote bags at Melbourne Airport. She faces… Read More ›

Senior police officer arrested in Loei for working with a drug network and passing on classified intelligence

Senior police officer arrested in Loei for working with a drug network and passing on classified intelligence

June 29, 2026

Crime, Culture, Living, Thailand:

Police arrested a Loei lieutenant colonel accused of leaking classified intelligence to a drug gang, helping traffickers evade arrest and hiding meth pills in his… Read More ›

People’s Party’s Pawut faces questioning as a witness on July 2 by the DSI in a complex forex fraud case

People’s Party’s Pawut faces questioning as a witness on July 2 by the DSI in a complex forex fraud case

June 29, 2026

Crime, Culture, Economy, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

DSI investigators will question People’s Party MP Pawut Pongwitayaphanu over a ฿28 million transfer as a sweeping forex fraud probe deepens. The elite police inquiry… Read More ›

Bank of Thailand pushes a baht backed stablecoin but warns against Forex trading and payment gateways

Bank of Thailand pushes a baht backed stablecoin but warns against Forex trading and payment gateways

June 29, 2026

Economy, Living, Media, Thailand:

Bank of Thailand will launch a baht-backed stablecoin while cracking down on speculative forex trading and foreign currency payments, as Governor Vitai Ratanakorn declares blockchain… Read More ›

International migration from West to East is a rising phenomenon now going far beyond ‘Passport Bros’

International migration from West to East is a rising phenomenon now going far beyond ‘Passport Bros’

June 29, 2026

Culture, Living, Media, Thailand:

Western men are increasingly abandoning the US,  Britain and the West for new lives in Thailand, citing COVID, soaring living costs, remote work and changing… Read More ›

Chinese woman linked to huge 20 billion baht fraud arrested in Chiang Mai by Immigration Bureau cops

Chinese woman linked to huge 20 billion baht fraud arrested in Chiang Mai by Immigration Bureau cops

June 29, 2026

Crime, Culture, Living, Thailand:

Chinese fugitive “Madame Zheng” has been arrested in Chiang Mai after an international manhunt over an alleged ฿20 billion cloud investment scam. Police say more… Read More ›

Aussie arrested for murdering a teenage girl in Pattaya faces the death penalty if convicted by a Thai court

Aussie arrested for murdering a teenage girl in Pattaya faces the death penalty if convicted by a Thai court

June 29, 2026

Crime, Living, Media, Thailand:

Australian Simon Carman faces Thailand’s death penalty after police say CCTV tracked him from a Pattaya hotel to a suitcase containing a murdered 17-year-old girl… Read More ›

Vietnamese woman slashed in Bangkok by obese man who told reporters he doesn’t like overweight people

Vietnamese woman slashed in Bangkok by obese man who told reporters he doesn’t like overweight people

June 28, 2026

Crime, Living, Media, Thailand:

Homeless man slashes Vietnamese office worker with a box cutter in Bangkok’s Silom district before police hunt him down using CCTV. Officers say he admitted… Read More ›

Chadchart wins the Bangkok governor contest by a crushing landslide after a slick re-election campaign

Chadchart wins the Bangkok governor contest by a crushing landslide after a slick re-election campaign

June 28, 2026

Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt is heading for another landslide as two major polls predict a crushing re-election victory, cementing the former coup detainee’s rise as… Read More ›

Parliamentary delegation inspects new Thai border fence with Cambodia in Chanthaburi. 45% complete

Parliamentary delegation inspects new Thai border fence with Cambodia in Chanthaburi. 45% complete

June 28, 2026

Living, Media, Politics, Thailand:

Thailand’s new 8.3km border fence in Chanthaburi is 45% complete as a parliamentary delegation led by Monthian Songpracha inspects the project. Military chiefs say security… Read More ›

Police chief in Pattaya commends the investigative team that arrested Aussie murder suspect in 6 hours

Police chief in Pattaya commends the investigative team that arrested Aussie murder suspect in 6 hours

June 28, 2026

Crime, Culture, Living, Thailand:

Pattaya detectives have been honoured after tracking Australian Simon Peter Carman to Bangkok airport within six hours of the murder of 17-year-old Thanyachanok Donhomlao, whose… Read More ›

Tourism Minister to forge a stronger consultation process between the private sector and top officials

Tourism Minister to forge a stronger consultation process between the private sector and top officials

June 28, 2026

Culture, Economy, Politics, Thailand:

Tourism Minister Surasak Phancharoenworakul has unveiled Thailand’s biggest tourism policy overhaul in years, proposing a new public-private decision system, a ฿3 billion stimulus, India visa… Read More ›

Bank of Thailand boss defends the central bank’s low interest rate policy aimed at boosting the economy

Bank of Thailand boss defends the central bank’s low interest rate policy aimed at boosting the economy

June 28, 2026

Economy, Living, Media, Thailand:

The Bank of Thailand has defied mounting pressure to raise interest rates, keeping its benchmark at 1% as Governor Vitai Ratanakorn insists the baht’s slide… Read More ›

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