The seaside resort town of Hua Hin was hit by fresh blasts on Friday (Aug 12), hours after explosions killed one and injured more than 20, as Phuket and Surat Thani were also rocked by explosions, official said.
Both Beijing and Manila have kept a low profile over the visit of former Philippine president Fidel Ramos to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the past couple of days, but his mission has been evident: to seek the possibility of easing the strained bilateral relations.
Thailand will hold a general election in 2017, the country's junta chief confirmed yesterday, his first comments since voters backed a new military-crafted Constitution in a referendum.
More than 2,000 incidents, including sexual abuse, assault and attempted self-harm, were reported in about two years at an Australian detention centre for asylum seekers in Nauru, more than half involving children, a newspaper reported on Wednesday (Aug 10).
MH370 plunged into the ocean at high speed - up to 20,000 feet a minute - reinforcing analysis that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet crashed in the current search zone, a report said Tuesday.
Brazil’s Senate voted early Wednesday (Aug 10) to hold an impeachment trial for the nation’s suspended president Dilma Rousseff, a process that could see her permanently removed from office.
Philippine officials said yesterday that the government would build new jails to address severe congestion made worse by President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war, describing conditions as "inhumane" and "unacceptable".
The Philippines' Supreme Court on Tuesday (Aug 9) ordered an inquiry into four judges whom President Rodrigo Duterte has linked to the drug trade, a day after the Chief Justice criticised the President's name-and-shame campaign in his war on narcotics.
A French court on Monday remanded in custody a 16-year-old girl accused of planning an attack in a country on edge following a series of brutal terror assaults, a judicial source said.
The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Tuesday (Aug 9) marked 71 years since its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with its mayor lauding a visit by US President Barack Obama to Hiroshima earlier this year.
Just like countless other countries, Spain has been hit so hard by the Pokemon Go craze that travel agencies are seeking to cash in on the global phenomenon with specialised tours.
Delta Air Lines Inc cancelled hundreds of flights and delayed many others on Monday after an outage hit its computer systems, grounding planes and stranding passengers of one of the world's largest carriers at airports around the globe.
The main airport serving the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Tuesday (Aug 9) opened a new terminal that will allow the overcrowded aviation hub to handle tens of millions more passengers a year.
Crown Prince Naruhito, who is the next in line to Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne, is one of the fiercest critics of the cloistered monarchy institution he belongs to.
Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito may be heir to one of the world's oldest monarchies, but he is not shy about knocking the institution he represents or his country's warring past.
A referendum victory for Thailand's ruling generals over a new constitution is a "backwards" step for the country, the toppled ex-premier said on Monday (Aug 8) as the democracy movement reels from its first poll defeat in a decade.
Six Molotov cocktails were flung into a bustling summer samba street festival in Tokyo on Sunday (Aug 7) night, wounding 15 people including a one-year-old girl.
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