SONGKHLA - Immigration police have arrested a Chinese former flight attendant who is suspected of acting as a broker for a human smuggling network that helps foreigners across the Thai-Malaysian border.

JAKARTA - Seven years after Covid-19 put the brakes on Indonesia’s new women’s football league, Zahra Naqiyyah will finally return to the field with “high hopes” for the women’s game in the country.

VIENNA - As the new school year gets under way in Austria, a headscarf ban for girls under 14 has sparked protests on the streets and in the classroom, with dozens of pupils refusing to comply.

LOS ANGELES - When Americans vote in next month’s midterm elections, one question on the ballot in California could echo far beyond the state: should the ultra-wealthy pay a special tax on their fortunes?

WASHINGTON - A typhoon in the Philippines and flooding in Brazil. Twice in less than a year, the British energy giant Shell has been the target of a new type of lawsuit seeking to make polluters pay part of the cost of specific extreme weather events...

SONGKHLA - Immigration police have arrested a Chinese former flight attendant who is suspected of acting as a broker for a human smuggling network that helps foreigners across the Thai-Malaysian border.

From wowing headbangers in Singapore to livening up a dinner for the planet’s financial elite, it’s been another eventful week for Nene Royal, the young Phuket rocker and winner of this year’s “America’s Got Talent&rdquo...

Demonstrators gathered on Thursday morning near the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, the venue of IMF-World Bank Group meetings, but were prevented by police from advancing.

More than 2,000 businesses under the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) suffered losses from severe flooding late last month, with total damage estimated at 6-7 billion baht, according to representatives.

Thai tourism could lose between 50-150 billion baht in revenue a year thanks to the proposed departure tax, compared with the 45.9 billion baht it is expected to raise, with airlines opposing the levy due to its poor timing and the likelihood of it u...