Police in Thailand have detained the British husband of Lamduan Armitage, the Thai woman whose body was found in the Yorkshire Dales more than 20 years ago. Walkers discovered her half-naked body in a stream near Pen-y-ghent in 2004 and she remained unidentified for 15 years until her family saw a BBC News report and came forward.
International pressure is mounting on Thailand – including from the new US administration – over the fate of dozens of Uyghur men held in detention for more than a decade, following reports the Thai government planned to deport the group to China.
Thai businesses are expected to incur up to 1 billion baht ($29.5 million) in losses from China's ban on sugar syrup and premixed powder exports from the Southeast Asian nation, with shipments left stranded in Chinese ports,
Thai police said on Friday that a coordination centre would be set up at the national police headquarters in Bangkok and Chinese authorities plan to set up another one in Thailand's Mae Sot district, which borders Myanmar's Myawaddy, a major hub for the scam call centres.
With first-mover advantage in Southeast Asia, Thailand could reap a windfall from its push for equal marital rights.
Hundreds of LGBTQ couples in Thailand get married as the country's landmark marriage equality law comes into effect.
More than a hundred endangered tortoises have been returned to Tanzania from Thailand as evidence in a case against a wildlife smuggling network, the international criminal police organization Interpol said Friday.
Thailand on Thursday became the first country in Southeast Asia to hold legal same-sex weddings, with LGBT groups aiming to mark the occasion with more than 1,000 marriage registrations in a single day.
Weddings took place across the country, including at a Bangkok mall, as same-sex marriage became legal. Thailand is one of the few places in Asia where it’s allowed.
While China declared last year that major telecom fraud hubs near the Myanmar border had been dismantled and tens of thousands of suspects detained, the problem persists
Yan is suspected of deceiving actor Wang Xing into going to Myanmar for a supposed film shoot. Wang went missing at the Thailand-Myanmar border after arriving in Thailand on Jan 3 and was rescued by Thai police on Jan 7, before returning to China on Jan 11.