A former naval reconnaissance officer arrested on Wednesday has admitted to being the gunman in an attack on a Narathiwat MP, police say, while other suspects have also confessed but their conflicting accounts have failed to shed light on the masterm...

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT - A funeral held in this southern province has drawn widespread attention after dancers were hired to perform in front of the coffin on the final night of mourning, in accordance with the last wishes of the deceased.

MOSCOW - Russian ⁠billionaires increased ⁠their wealth by ​11% to a record $696.5 billion over the past ​year despite the war ‌in Ukraine and the toughest Western sanctions ever imposed on a major economy, Forbes Russia has reported.

PARIS - Britain and France have agreed a new three-year deal to stop undocumented migrants making the risky journey across the Channel in small boats, the two sides announced.

A government panel has increased the reduction in the refining margin to 5 baht per litre, from 2 baht earlier, in a move aimed at easing fuel costs.

PATTAYA - A Turkish engineer linked to the collapse of a building during a deadly earthquake in Adana, Turkey in February 2023 has been arrested at a hotel in this beach city in Chon Buri.

TOKYO - Every actor in kabuki — a traditional Japanese performing art celebrated for its striking makeup and elaborate costumes — relies on one final, essential element to fully inhabit their role: the wig.

Restaurant-related associations have collaborated to tackle surging energy costs, fluctuations in raw material prices, and digital transformation.

KINSHASA - Spending the past five days cooped up in a hotel in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not quite what a group of Latin Americans expected when they sought asylum in the United States.

WASHINGTON - When US President Donald Trump this week attacked Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, two of America’s most prominent Black figures, he chose a particularly pejorative insult: “...