Thailand Prime Minister Prayaut Chan-ocha’s plan of re-instilling traditional Thai values into the population under his dictatorship might not be going entirely to plan if this video from Chumphon Hospital in southern Thailand is anything […]
In Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist the gang of child pickpockets and thieves is taught their criminal skills by a dodgy character known as Fagin. Praying on the vast number of homeless children in London […]
The Royal Thai Police (RTP) often come in for criticism and there is no shortage of video clips on the internet showing officers taking cash instead of writing out tickets for traffic violations. In […]
Developers vaunt Myanmar’s Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) as ‘the most advanced of Myanmar’s three SEZs’, boasting – as it does – its own power, water and internet services, which is to say nothing of […]
While Royal Thai Police (RTP) might look poorly trained and at times under equipped, overall they have a pretty good clean-up rate, often acting with incredible tenacity – as seen in this video […]
Back in January the Royal Thai Police (RTP) at the San Sai Police Station proudly posted on its Facebook page video and still images of police undergoing training on how to disarm and contain a […]
Now that the Asean Economic Community (AEC) is finally in existence and we are united as one Asean Community (AC), the lingering question is: Do we know who our are Asean neighbours are? What are […]
It’s the sort of story that wouldn’t be complete without a glut of puns, and the international press did not disappoint. The occasion: Thai Princess HRH Maha Chakri Sirindhorn ordering that a US$40,000 lakeside toilet […]
Thirty-four Cambodia civil society groups have released a statement condemning armed attacks against protesting bus drivers that left dozens injured and several in ‘arbitrary’ detention in Phnom Penh on Saturday. Video footage circulating on social […]
Update #1. Thailand police have said they will prosecute 32 senior foreign citizens caught playing bridge earlier this week.
Thailand’s slide to a North Korea-like state continues with a huge police, Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA) (กรมการปกครอง) and Thai Army raid on an expatriates’ bridge club in the eastern seaboard city of Pattaya, […]
Thailand Crown Prince HRH Maha Vajiralongkorn yesterday (December 11,2015) led 99,999 people on a 29km-long bicycle ride around Bangkok to celebrate his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 88th birthday on December 5. Accompanied by his daughters […]
When it comes to automobiles there’s nothing truer than the old adage ‘they don’t make them like they used to’. The increased use of recyclable materials, airbags, and crumple zones mean today’s motor vehicles are […]