Revellers in colourful shirts and goggles fired water guns at each other to celebrate Thai New Year on Sunday, a festival that is marked with water as a symbol of renewal, cleansing and a fresh start.
A powerful earthquake in Myanmar rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, killing several people and causing major damage as Bangkok rescuers searched for 81 people in the rubble of a collapsed building.
Australian woman hospitalised after drinking contaminated alcohol in Laos died, the sixth fatality from suspected methanol poisoning, the government said on Friday.
Thailand recorded 20.3 million foreign tourist arrivals from Jan. 1 through July 28, up 34% from the same period a year earlier, the tourism ministry said on Tuesday.
Farmer Tanyapong Jaikham and a team of workers planted the seedlings at various spots in the field in the northern province of Chiang Rai to depict cartoon cats, hoping to lure tourists and cat lovers
Vetoon Phoome's family feared the Thai farm worker had been killed by Hamas in last month's attack on Israel, until they found out on Saturday he had been freed along with other Thai hostages in Gaza.
