A drug dealer who fled to Thailand before his trial was due to begin has been extradited back to the UK and jailed. Luke Atkin was handed a ten-year prison sentence in his absence for his role in a drugs gang that supplied "huge amounts" of cocaine in York and Tadcaster after he left the UK ahead of court proceedings.

At least 39 Thai agricultural workers were killed in the Oct. 7 attacks, and at least 31 were taken hostage, according to the Thai foreign ministry. Of the 31 hostages, at least two died in captivity, Thai officials said. During a cease-fire in November 2023, 23 Thai hostages were released.

The founding family of Japan's Seven & i is asking Thailand's Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group to invest in a management buyout of the Japanese retailing giant, national broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday.

In a significant boost to recognizing transgender people’s rights, the Thai government announced this week that it will invest 145 million baht (US$4.3 million) in providing hormone therapy to transgender people.

The father of a Thai farmhand who was held hostage in Gaza for 15 months could barely get the words out at hearing the news of his son’s release.

Just days after marriage equality became the law in Thailand, the country’s national health ministry added hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to the free health services available to Thai citizens.

International pressure is mounting on Thailand – including from the new US administration – over the fate of dozens of Uyghur men held in detention for more than a decade, following reports the Thai government planned to deport the group to China.

After Thailand experienced a cool January in 2025, an old video of a car driving through a layer of sleet spread online alongside a false claim that the tropical country had experienced its first snowfall.

Hundreds of same-sex couples are tying the knot across Thailand on Thursday as the country becomes the first in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.

The founding family of Seven & i is asking Thailand's Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group to invest in a managed buyout of the Japanese retailing giant, NHK reported on Thursday.

The Turkish intelligence agency (MIT) negotiated with Palestinian Hamas for the release of five hostages from Thailand, who returned to Israel on Thursday, Turkish media reported, citing security service sources.