A nationwide test of the mobile phone emergency alert system will be conducted on Jan 20 at 2pm, with messages sent to millions of users across all 76 provinces and Bangkok, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said on Thursday.

NAKHON PHANOM - Four suspects have been arrested and 480 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine seized in this northeastern province after an expanded investigation into a transnational drug trafficking syndicate.

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is expected to be granted parole in May, when he will have served two-thirds of his one-year prison term, according to a source at the Department of Corrections.

Air pollution is worsening in Thailand, with Bangkok and numerous other provinces blanketed with unsafe levels of PM2.5 on Thursday morning.

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet on Thursday with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, whose pro-democracy movement he has sidelined since toppling her country’s leader, and whose Nobel Peace Prize he op...

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is expected to be granted parole in May, when he will have served two-thirds of his one-year prison term, according to a source at the Department of Corrections.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA - Authorities have ended the search for three missing persons after failing to locate their bodies at the site where a crane collapsed onto a moving train on Wednesday, killing 32 people.

SAMUT SAKHON – Two people were killed and five injured when parts of a construction crane collapsed onto Rama II Road in Samut Sakhon on Thursday morning, reportedly hitting two vehicles travelling below, police said.

WASHINGTON - The administration of US President Donald Trump is suspending processing of immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries including Thailand, a State Department spokesperson confirmed on ‌Wednesday, as part of Washington’s ...

Global trade in 2026 is expected to grow more complex, driven by geopolitical tensions, protectionist policies, stricter environmental rules and shifting supply chains. Yet opportunities in neighbouring countries and South Asia persist in a divided w...