A political activist group has urged national police chief Samran Nualma to step up efforts to crack down on grey businesses, scam gangs and online gambling — and on the public officials who turn a blind eye to illegality.

KUALA ​LUMPUR — Malaysia has banned civil servants ​from using Alphabet's navigation application Waze after Prime ​Minister Anwar Ibrahim ‌said its origins in Israel raised security concerns.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has submitted legal amendments that would intensify drug suppression through longer detention, greater data access for authorities and a redefinition of all drug possessors as traffickers.

Higher Education Minister Yodchanan Wongsawat has confirmed plans to relocate a central Bangkok vocational college at the centre of decades-old land dispute, despite student protests, pledging support to minimise disruption during the 90-day transiti...

LONDON - The UK government said on Wednesday that it had approved plans to begin drilling in a controversial new gas field in the North Sea, ending months of speculation about the future of the site.

Suvarnabhumi airport has said it has not found any evidence that its staff opened and searched a passenger’s luggage, responding to a Thai travel blogger who claimed online that her belongings had been rummaged through.

PARIS (FRANCE) - Global commitments to cut planet-heating emissions are falling far short of the Paris climate goals and put the world on course for 2.6C warming this century, the UN warned on Wednesday.

SAINT PETERSBURG — US envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Saint Petersburgand meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday following "very productive" talks with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.

Floods persisted in parts of Bangkok and 19 provinces, mostly in the Central Plains, on Wednesday, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.

PHETCHABURI - Two suspected drug smugglers were killed and 500 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine seized following an exchange of gunfire with narcotics suppression police in Khao Yoi district on Tuesday night.