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BANGKOK -- Out of countless insights and anecdotes that have emerged from conversations about art over the years, one particularly sticks in my memory. After visiting World War II memorial sites, an artist friend described the profound awfulness of viewing a room full of human hair. "This," he added, "is what art has to compete with."
BANGKOK (AP) — A court of appeals in Thailand has handed a political activist what is believed to be a record sentence for the criminal offense of insulting the monarchy, giving him a 50-year prison term after finding him guilty of 25 violations of the law, a lawyers’ group said Thursday.
BANGKOK (Reuters) -- Around 20 people were killed in Thailand in an explosion on Wednesday at a fireworks factory north of Bangkok, police said. Authorities were inspecting the site.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Clashes between Myanmar's military and armed ethnic groups appear to be continuing days after the announcement of a Chinese-brokered truce, raising concerns over a breakdown in the military chain of command.
SINGAPORE/BANGKOK -- Financial regulators in Singapore and Thailand have poured cold water on cryptocurrency-linked funds this week, even after their U.S. counterparts approved the introduction of such products there.
BANGKOK (AP) — An explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand killed at least 15 people on Wednesday, a rescue worker said.
BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Wednesday acquitted more than two dozen protesters who had occupied Bangkok’s two airports in 2008 of charges of rebellion and terrorism related to their demonstration, which at the time disrupted travel in and out of the country for more than a week.
BANGKOK (AP) — Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is serving a prison sentence after being convicted of wrongdoing in office, but he shouldn’t be called an inmate, the country’s Correction Department declared Tuesday.