Antigovernment protests in Bangkok turned violent again this weekend — on Friday, a grenade bomb killed one protestor and injured 35 others, on Saturday another protestor was killed, and today at least 28 bystanders were wounded by two twin bombs that exploded near a protest site.
In the most violent conflict in Thailand since 2010, at least four people were killed and more than 100 were injured over the weekend as tens of thousands of pro-and anti-government protestors continued their weeks-long confrontation in the streets of Bangkok. On Tuesday, Yingluck Shinawatra, the country's prime…
Thirty thousand Thai protestors staged a "people's coup" today, forcing the country's prime minister to flee a police compound amidst violent clashes between protestors and police. Protestors also seized a state broadcaster, but failed to actually breach the Prime Minister's heavily fortified home.
Rihanna is a woman of many talents — she's a smoker of L's, a talented thrower of side-eye, a kidnapper of fans, a possible giver of Herpes, and now, a quasi-international crime stopper.
It certainly says something about the state of Hollywood today that a three minute ad produced at a fraction of the cost of most movies is more moving and poignant than almost anything the big studios have to offer.
An American man on vacation with his son in the popular tourist town of Krabi, Thailand, was reportedly stabbed to death by members of a local karaoke band for refusing to stop singing.
On Saturday, an oil pipeline leaked 13,200 gallons of crude oil (the equivalent of one and a half tanker trucks) into the Gulf of Thailand. The oil slick is continuing to spread, blackening the beaches and water of a tourist island in the country's eastern sea.
The Christmas party for AutoAlliance Thailand really had it all: Bottle throwing, gun shots and homemade hand grenades. It all started peacefully enough; the company's 4,000 person staff gathered at a restaurant in Chonburi, roughly 60 miles south of Bangkok, for a night full of holiday cheer and prizes.
Pour Michelle a big glass of white wine and light that one candle that I like ("cotton breeze") because Obama treated foreign policy decisions like Bachelor Rose Ceremony decisions this weekend, and we need to Talk About It.
Red Bull may give you wings, but it does not give you immunity.
This "millennial" generation of youngsters these days—is there any respected institution which they cannot ruin merely by being themselves? It seems not. For thousands of years, Buddhist monks have had a good thing going: they sit. They chant. They chill. And now? "Me-first" teenage monks these days are using the…
A member of the Thai parliament is accused of accidentally killing his personal secretary with a submachine gun while the two waited for their food to arrive inside a local restaurant.
Police in Bangkok yesterday arrested a man who had in his possession six roasted fetuses aged two to seven months. It was unclear how they were initially obtained.
The Thai billionaire who created popular energy drink Red Bull three decades ago has died at 89. Chaleo Yoovidhya founded T.C. Pharmaceuticals, who first developed Red Bull — or as it's known in Thailand, Krathing Daeng.
I shamelessly swiped this post, but it is perfect and deserves recognition. The image comes to us from Thailand's Tiffany Show, which is billed as "the original transvestite show."
Joe Gordon is a 55-year-old retired car salesman from Colorado. On Thursday, Gordon was sentenced by a Thai court to 2.5 years in prison. His crime was astonishingly non-existent.
It's an unusually heavy monsoon season in Thailand, and the country is experiencing some of the worst, and longest flooding in memory. Nearly 2.5 million people have been affected, and more than 300 have died; public holidays have been declared throughout the country to give people time to move.
The Sacred Heart School in Chiang Mai, Thailand recently had a "sports day," in which students divided up into teams named after different colors. Just like schools in the U.S.! Except that one of the teams at Sacred Heart also dressed up like Nazis.
At Bangkok's only government-approved body-slapping beauty shop, Khemmikka Na Songkhla will repeatedly slap a woman in boobs, butt, or face, to improve shapeliness and size. During a demonstration for the Bangkok Post, she explains that this is an "ancient art," but "ancient people didn't share it much because back…
Thai opposition party Pheu Thai has won a majority in Thailand's parliamentary elections, likely making Yingluck Shinawatra the country's first female prime minister. Shinawatra's older brother is former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed in a 2006 coup. [BBC]
