Aidan Jones
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
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From Singapore to Thailand, private operators and luxury resorts are cashing in, as more retirees seek care on their own terms.
Military links have brought waves of Americans to Thailand since the 1940s, with the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln the latest to visit.
Over 5,000 sailors and Marines have arrived in the Thai resort city for their first shore leave in 286 days.
Dislodged from Cambodian compounds, cyberscam cartels have been setting up shop in Laos, Myanmar and even Malaysia.
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Pattaya has faced a grim low tourist season, driven in part by the economic downturn triggered by the Iran war.
Malaysia has the chips. Vietnam has the assembly lines. But Thailand’s humble circuit boards help keep the AI boom alive.
The self-taught guitar prodigy has come a long way from Phuket market performances as she prepares for her biggest stage yet.
A 1.2-tonne seizure reveals how transnational syndicates bypass bans to move poached tusks from Africa to Asia.
Aeon is selling its MaxValu stores in Thailand to Central Retail, retreating from a market dominated by local giants.
Seven people were arrested after nearly 200 children from Myanmar were found falsely registered as occupants in cramped flats in Bangkok.
Fresh off a five-year military deal, Min Aung Hlaing is meeting Vladimir Putin for talks on further economic and security cooperation.
Instalments and resales are helping customers from Bangkok to Jakarta bridge the gap between aspiration and affordability.
Tens of thousands have been displaced in Laos and Myanmar, with rescue efforts hampered by threadbare resources.
The recent school shooting and killing of an official have raised the tally to 12 in three weeks in the tiny province of Nonthaburi alone.
Myanmar’s economy has shown signs of life after years of sky-high inflation and negative growth, but experts say it is far from recovering.
The 14-year-old suspect, who later killed himself, had used a gun that belonged to his grandfather, authorities say.
Thailand’s acknowledgement of Min Aung Hlaing’s legitimacy stems from a ‘straight up pragmatism’, analysts say.
Bangkok says no efforts were made to verify the claims of UN Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews with Thai authorities.
The suspected ringleader behind the murders of two Russian siblings and a Thai family was released just seven weeks before the first crime.
Bangkok talks spark warnings that Southeast Asian diplomats are legitimising a military regime still waging a bloody war on its own people.
The bar in Thailand’s capital was crowded with hundreds of revellers at the time of the suspected electrical fire.
Commercial surrogacy is illegal in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. It is also worth an estimated US$15 billion a year.
Despite the leaders’ personal chemistry, the seafood row shows the ‘frictions’ embedded within the countries’ relationship, analysts say.
Four years after decriminalisation, a wave of international drug busts could force Asia’s only legal cannabis market to recriminalise.
The mother says she has tried to be fair to both her sons after ‘Psi’ went public with his childhood abuse accusations against his brother.
Five monks were killed at the roadside in Mukdahan province, while three others later died in hospital.
Family and friends of the victim who was allegedly murdered by an Australian man mourn for a teenage girl who was ‘beloved by everyone’.
Siranudh ‘Psi’ Scott broke his silence on alleged childhood trauma as his estranged mother wielded a century-old legal weapon against him.
Popular incumbent Chadchart Sittipunt swept aside rivals to claim a second term leading a city grappling with floods, smog and gridlock.
