100,000 antigovernment and 50,000 progovernment protesters take to the streets in sign of continuing political tensions
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Scuba Divers Saved Tourists From Sinking Ferry in Thailand
More than 70 passengers pulled from the water before rescue services arrived
Six Dead as Tourist Ferry Sinks in Thailand
Victims include three Thais, two Russians and a Chinese passenger
Burma’s Small-Scale Oil Barons Get Their Hands Dirty
Waist-deep in pits of crude oil, longyi-clad roughnecks burrow a living from black gold in the most improbable of landscapes. Ko Min, 26, manually extracts the viscous liquid from his three 300-foot-deep wells in Minhla township, …
Thailand’s Amnesty Bill Unites Political Foes Against Government
The Red Shirts and the Yellow Shirts are agreeing on something for once — and that is, that neither side wants to forgive the other
Ex-Thai PM Abhisit and Former Deputy Charged With Murder
Charges relate to crackdown on Red Shirt anti-government protesters in May 2010 that resulted in 85 dead and 1,378 injured
Floods Surge Through 21 Thai Provinces
Disaster areas declared in northeast as deluge damages homes and farms
The Koh Samet Oil Spill Is Just the Latest Tourism Disaster to Hit Thailand
The current predicament is just one of a number of tourism calamities Thailand has suffered in recent years. And it’s likely the country’s tourism industry will survive this one as it has survived the others
Burmese Refugees Remain in Limbo by Thai Border Despite Political Reforms
The wrinkled limestone karst landscape of the Thai-Burmese border is home to around 130,000 Burmese refugees. Many who fled decades of ethnic conflict have lost their lands, families and livelihoods, and countless children born …
Internet Censorship Is Taking Root in Southeast Asia
Every time Le Anh Hung starts to write he thinks of his three young children. The 38-year-old has already been imprisoned twice for blogging about human rights and corruption from his home in Hanoi and lives half-expecting …
How Thailand’s Botched Rice Scheme Blew a Big Hole in its Economy
The plan was simple: Thailand’s government would buy rice from local farmers at a generous price, some 50 percent above the market rates. It would hold the rice in warehouses, cutting off exports to the rest of the world. The …
Thailand’s Full-Moon Parties Have Become a Trashy Disgrace
Onetime bastion of peace and alternative living has degenerated into a modern-day Gomorrah of tawdry overindulgence
Silver Sand and the Sound of Waves: It’s 1988 and Thailand’s First Full Moon Party
Colin Hinshelwood is a Scottish journalist living in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He attended the first Full Moon Party on Haad Rin Beach in 1988 and shared his memories with TIME.