Thailand

News Hour: Thailand expects revenue from foreign tourists to rise 8.5 percent to 1.78 trillion baht ($49.8 billion) this year, a deputy prime minister said on Monday, reports Reuters. The expected rise results from an improved...

News Hour: A minivan and a pickup truck both packed with passengers collided in eastern Thailand on Monday, killing 25 people in a harrowing reminder of the country’s notoriously dangerous roads. Police said the minivan driver...

News Hour: Six people were gunned down over 24 hours by suspected militants in a string of separate shootings in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued southern provinces, authorities said on Wednesday. The kingdom’s far south has witnessed a Malay-Muslim...

News Hour: Days of torrential rain and flooding have killed at least 14 people in southern Thailand, with authorities declaring much of the region a disaster zone, the government said on Tuesday. Heavy rains have lashed...

News Hour: At least 11 have died and two remain missing from the heavy flood that resulted from downpours in southern Thailand, local media reported on Monday. The disaster started last Thursday in the ten southern...

News Hour: A Pakistani man suspected of starting a devastating factory fire in Karachi four years ago that killed 255 people has been arrested in Bangkok, Thai police said on Saturday. Abdul Rehman, 46, was detained...

News Hour: Thailand’s cabinet on Tuesday submitted the name of Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn to the nation’s rubber-stamp parliament, paving the way for his endorsement as king several weeks after his father’s death. “The prime minister’s...

News Hour: Tens of thousands of Thais streamed into Bangkok’s Grand Palace on Saturday as the public was granted its first chance to enter the throne hall where the body of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej is...

News Hour: At least one person was killed and 19 wounded in an explosion at a night market in southern Thailand on Monday where Muslim separatists have been waging an insurgency for more than a decade....

News Hour: FIFA’s anti-corruption court on Tuesday banned Thailand football chief Worawi Makudi for five years for forgery and refusing to cooperate with an investigation. Worawi, who was also fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,000), has been...