A drug dealer who fled to Thailand before his trial was due to begin has been extradited back to the UK and jailed. Luke Atkin was handed a ten-year prison sentence in his absence for his role in a drugs gang that supplied "huge amounts" of cocaine in York and Tadcaster after he left the UK ahead of court proceedings.

The founding family of Seven & i is asking Thailand's Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group to invest in a managed buyout of the Japanese retailing giant, NHK reported on Thursday.

In a significant boost to recognizing transgender people’s rights, the Thai government announced this week that it will invest 145 million baht (US$4.3 million) in providing hormone therapy to transgender people.

Just days after marriage equality became the law in Thailand, the country’s national health ministry added hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to the free health services available to Thai citizens.

Mr. Pongsak was among five Thai hostages who were released on Thursday. Working on farms in often dangerous parts of Israel, Thai farmhands suffered a heavy toll in the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. At least 39 were killed, and at least 31 were taken hostage, according to an earlier tally from the Thai foreign ministry.

After Thailand experienced a cool January in 2025, an old video of a car driving through a layer of sleet spread online alongside a false claim that the tropical country had experienced its first snowfall.

Hundreds of same-sex couples are tying the knot across Thailand on Thursday as the country becomes the first in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.

A freeze on foreign assistance programs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump has led to cuts in services to refugees from war-torn Myanmar, including the shutdown of hospital care in camps in Thailand where more than 100,

BANGKOK -- TikTok will spend 126.8 billion baht ($3.76 billion) to launch a data center project in Thailand, according to the country's investment authorities. The Chinese-owned video content platform plans to provide data hosting functions to affiliate companies, Thailand's Board of Investment (BOI) said Wednesday.

The founding family of Japan's Seven & i is asking Thailand's Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group to invest in a management buyout of the Japanese retailing giant, national broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday.

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