A ministerial announcement, to be issued in 40 days, will require all cannabis users, Thai and foreign, to have a medical certificate to access cannabis legally. BANGKOK – Public Health Minister ...

LANG SON – Police have arrested 12 individuals in connection with a massive multi-level marketing (MLM) fraud scheme that allegedly involved thousands of victims across the country and transactions ...

BANGKOK – The event brings together government officials and business leaders from Laos, Korea and Thailand to explore trade and investment opportunities. The mission aims to strengthen regional ...

PHNOM PENH – A healing initiative: Half a century after the collapse of the Khmer Rouge genocidal regime, 600,000 young Cambodians learn about Khmer Rouge history each week in their classrooms April ...

JAKARTA – Property developers have proposed a rent-to-own scheme as a way to ease homeownership access for workers in the informal sector. Junaidi Abdillah, chairman of the All-Indonesia Association ...

SEOUL – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Wednesday that it had developed South Korea’s first AI-powered system that automatically monitors, detects, reports and requests the removal of ...

ISLAMABAD – The Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday rejected the claim made by India that Pakistan had attempted to attack the Golden Temple in Amritsar — one of the holiest sites in Sikhism — during the ...

TAIPEI – In a rare move for a major speech, Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te did not make any mention of China or cross-strait relations in his May 20 address marking his first anniversary in office.

HANOI – The Government has proposed abolishing the death penalty for several offences as part of a broader amendment to the Penal Code, marking a significant shift in the country’s approach to ...

JAKARTA – Rights activists and historians gathered at the House of Representatives complex in Senayan, Jakarta, on Monday to demand lawmakers reject the government’s controversial bid to rewrite ...

TOKYO – Over 100 years ago in Japan, a shortage of rice and a steep rise in its price caused a great uproar for about a month. This has been called the Kome Sodo, or rice riots. Although Japan at the ...

ISLAMABAD – “It is a credit to Noor’s family that they weren’t coerced by blood pardons,” says Barrister Asad Rahim. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of Zahir Jaffer, convicted ...