Thailand

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi receives a rapturous reception in Thailand by crowds celebrating her first trip outside Myanmar in nearly a quarter of a century.

Chiranuch Premchaiporn faces a jail-term of up to 50 years prison for “defaming, insulting, or threatening” Thailand’s royal family under the country’s ultra-strict “lese-majeste” laws.

John Sparks on developments in Thailand’s international terrorism saga.

Thailand’s politicians are struggling to explain to its public why it unwittingly played host to a botched bombing, writes Jon Sparks.

An Iranian man has been badly wounded after a bungled bombing in Thailand. Israel’s defence minster described it as an attempted terrorist attack.

Over the last five months, the Thai border police have made a series of spectacular animal seizures in the north east. Tens of thousands of dogs have been discovered, stuffed into ‘pig cages’, with ten or sometimes even fifteen animals packed into each one. Channel 4 News’ Asia correspondent John Sparks reports.

John Sparks meets the mothers who lost their sons on Thailand’s roads – and who are campaigning to stop it happening again.

It is a top tourist destination – but what the guidebooks don’t tell you is that Thailand’s roads are lethal. Now a group of mothers whose sons died in a bus crash are campaigning to change that.

The calls began in early October with panicked sounding ‘pet’ owners begging Dr ‘Ning’ Natarika to do something. Millions of Thais were evacuating their homes, taking only what they could carry. Everything else was left behind – and ‘everything else’ happens to include snakes, monkeys (including an endangered capuchin), wild boar, hundreds of deer, a couple of black panthers, Siberian tigers, black bears, a pride of lions and so on.

Flood damaged blue chip companies consider quitting Thailand threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, reports John Sparks from Ayutthaya, Thailand.

Thai officials say central Bangkok has escaped the worst of Thailand’s most severe floods in half a century, but aid groups are now warning of the threat of water-borne diseases.

The battlements are set and the trenches laid. In a part of town now called the “green zone” Bangkok’s commercial district is still dry for the most part but today we saw shop owners physically blocking themselves in, writes Asia Correspondent John Sparks. Thailand’s prime minister has called it “a crisis unprecedented in Thai history”.…

Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra almost breaks down as she warns that Bangkok is “fighting against the forces of nature” amid heavy flooding.

Thailand’s floods crisis deepens as water begins pouring into Bangkok’s suburbs, forcing the Thai capital’s domestic airport to close.

The authorities are fighting to save the Thai capital from being submerged under three metres of water.