Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Although Thailand’s ruling junta has put off elections for years, since seizing ...

Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) forecasts 2.52 million domestic trips and THB10.32 billion in spending over the Father’s Day long weekend, boosted by state travel schemes.

Unpredictable weather. The Meteorological Department warns of cold weather in northern Thailand, with chilly mornings. Light rain is expected in the lower Northeast, while the South will experience ...

As “change” elections and momentous transitions sweep Asia, Thailand has self-selected for stagnation. Tuesday’s action by the Thai military to declare martial law while leaving the government in ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In September 2014, several months after the Thai armed forces’ May 2014 coup, I ...

Richard Barrow at Thai-Blogs.Com points to a school in Thailand that is encouraging the students to video blog. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media ...

Thailand heads to the polls for a general election on 3 July. HelpAge’s East Asia Pacific regional team is using this opportunity to draw attention to shortcomings in the major parties’ social ...

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra announced on Sunday that Thailand had protested the incident in which Myanmar's navy fired on Thai fishing boats, after a fisherman died, two were hurt, and ...

INTERVIEW: Scariest moment wasn’t his arrest but what followed, Murray Hunter tells . The 67-year-old felt alone and helpless in his jail cell and remembers thinking: ‘Nobody cares about this, so I am ...

An Australian academic and journalist will face a Thai court in December after being charged with defaming the Malaysian government. Murray Hunter will stand trial in Bangkok on December 22 charged ...

A chronology of key events: 7th-10th cent AD - Hindu and Buddhist Dvaravati culture, thought to be of the ethnic Mon people, predominates. Ruins of Sukhothai, capital of the first major Thai kingdom ...