The once formidable Myanmar military is cracking from within – riddled with spies secretly working for the pro-democracy rebels, the BBC has found. The military only has full control of less than a quarter of Myanmar's territory, a BBC World Service (...)
The end, when it came for the BGP5 barracks, was loud and brutal. First, a crackly speaker calling out for their surrender; then, a thunderous barrage of artillery, rockets and rifle fire that tore chunks out of the buildings in which hundreds of (...)
A second Australian teenager has died of suspected methanol poisoning, bringing to six the number of foreign tourists who have died after apparently drinking tainted alcohol in Laos.
The family of Holly Bowles, 19, said it was with "broken hearts" (...)
A woman in Thailand has been sentenced to death in the first of a string of cases in which she is accused of murdering 14 friends with cyanide.
The court in Bangkok found Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, 36, guilty of putting poison in a wealthy friend's (...)
Australian teen Bianca Jones has become the fourth tourist to have died in a suspected mass poisoning in Laos.
The 19-year-old's family confirmed her death to the media on Thursday. Hours earlier, the US State Department told the media that an (...)
A bus carrying dozens of primary school children has crashed and caught fire just outside the Thai capital of Bangkok.
Sixteen children and three teachers are reported to have escaped, but 22 pupils and three teachers are still unaccounted for, (...)
The number of people in Myanmar who have died in the wake of Typhoon Yagi rose to more than 220, with nearly 80 others still missing, the military government said.
The storm swept through northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar last week, (...)
Thailand's new Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and her 34-member Cabinet took an oath of office before King Maha Vajiralongkorn on Friday, local media reported.
Shinawatra, 37, of the Pheu Thai Party, and her Cabinet members pledged their (...)
Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, a member of a prominent Spanish acting family, was found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison by a Thai court on Thursday, in a high-profile case involving the dismemberment of his victim.
The Koh (...)
Thailand's newly elected Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra received royal assent on Sunday, officially allowing her to assume office.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn endorsed Paetongtarn as prime minister, two days after her election by Parliament, (...)
Thailand's parliament has picked Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of billionaire tycoon and former leader Thaksin, as prime minister.
At 37, she will be the country's youngest PM and the second woman in the post, after her aunt Yingluck.
Her (...)
Renewed fears of ethnic cleansing against the stateless Rohingya Muslim community are mounting after reports that hundreds of people, including women and children, were killed by drone strikes while fleeing violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine (...)
A Thai court has ordered the dissolution of the reformist party which won the most seats and votes in last year's election - but was blocked from forming a government.
The ruling also banned Move Forward's charismatic, young former leader Pita (...)
Six people, including two Vietnamese Americans, have been found dead inside a luxury hotel room in central Bangkok, with Thai police exploring the possibility that they were poisoned.
The bodies were discovered by staff in a fifth-floor room at the (...)
Thailand has expanded its visa-free entry scheme to 93 countries and territories as it seeks to revitalize its tourism industry.
Visitors can stay in the South-East Asian nation for up to 60 days under the new scheme that took effect on (...)
A Thai film about a young man caring for his dying grandmother as he vies for her fortune has struck a chord in South East Asia, where TikTokers' teary responses are going viral.
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies has topped box offices across (...)
Around 1,000 animals were killed in a fire in Bangkok's famous open-air Chatuchak market early Tuesday, gutting nearly 100 shops.
Birds, dogs, cats and snakes were burnt to death in their cages in the pet zone, which also included rats, pythons and (...)
At least 50 people were killed by Myanmar soldiers in a raid on a village in Rakhine State last week, say local residents and opposition forces.
Eyewitnesses told the BBC the village was subjected to two-and-half days of terror as soldiers (...)
It looks like something out of the dystopian show "Black Mirror," but it's just the latest adaptation of robotics for the modern battlefield.
During recent military drills with Cambodia, China's military showed off a robot dog with an automatic (...)
Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been indicted on lese majeste charges, authorities said Wednesday, in the latest twist in a decades-long political saga in the Southeast Asian kingdom.
The case, filed by police, alleged (...)
More than 20 people who were on a Singapore Airlines flight hit by severe turbulence are in intensive care with spinal injuries, the head of a Bangkok hospital has said.
A two-year-old child is among those in hospital in the Thai capital, where the (...)
Families of Rohingya people trapped in Myanmar's west are desperately trying to contact loved ones after a weekend of widespread arson attacks displaced up to 200,000 people and caused extensive destruction of homes.
The country's Rohingya have long (...)
Passengers have recounted scenes of "absolute terror" when severe turbulence hit their Singapore Airlines flight, launching people and objects across the cabin.
A 73-year-old British man, Geoff Kitchen, died from a suspected heart attack, while more (...)
A Thai activist accused of insulting the country's monarchy has died in detention following a months-long hunger strike.
Netiporn "Bung" Sanesangkhom died after her heart "stopped suddenly" on Tuesday morning, officials said.
The 28-year-old, part (...)
Myanmar's military government will no longer allow conscription-age men to travel out of the country for work, weeks after an enlistment order prompted many to try and flee.
On Thursday, authorities said they would suspend all applications from men (...)
