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.