PHUKET - A local civic group is going ahead with its planned demonstration on Friday against a Jewish New Year celebration, despite organisers scaling back the event amid security concerns.

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court overturned Thursday a presidential pardon granted to a hardline nationalist Buddhist monk and ordered him to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence for intimidating the wife of a missing cartoonist...

CHON BURI - The policeman who shot his teacher wife to death at a kindergarten on Wednesday has surrendered after an overnight siege at his house in Bang Lamung district.

Veteran activist Sondhi Limthongkul on Thursday rallied supporters outside the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok, where he called on Israel to monitor the behaviour of its citizens in Thailand, cooperate with investigations into Chabad centres and land owne...

TOKYO - A landslide struck a car park on Mount Fuji, with the final day of the volcano’s summer climbing season on Thursday marred by downpours and dense mist.

NEW DELHI - Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu says she “will not let go” of the chance to round off a glittering career with an elusive Asian Games medal, saying her goal feels “so close”.

A 66-year-old abbot accused of embezzling 92 million baht from a well-known temple in Ayutthaya was arrested on Thursday, along with a female aide who was seen having sex with the monk in security video taken in his quarters.

MANILA - At least five people were killed and 86 remain missing after a fire erupted aboard a ferry near a tourist hotspot in the Philippine province of Palawan, the coast guard said Thursday.

Industrial sentiment weakened in August as heavy rainfall disrupted economic activity and the prolonged conflict in the Middle East pushed up energy costs, according to the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI).

BANGKOK - Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures he has found: leopards, hornbills, and once an anteater.