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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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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.
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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.
Chadchart Sittipunt has won fans with his dog parks and flood alerts. Now he says he needs four more years to finish the job.
Thousands of applicants allegedly paid bribes to secure civil service positions in the multimillion-dollar fraud.
Nearly US$700 million in assets have been seized in Thailand so far, an example of the amount of dirty money sloshing through the economy.
Every few years, the Pacific runs a fever. This year, it could be worse than anything seen for decades, scientists warn.
In a video, Kim Aris notes it is the sixth birthday in a row he has been unable to see his mother in person, as calls for her release continue.
Animal activists say the cat and dog meat trade often operates over large networks that sometimes span all of Vietnam.
Talks are advancing on resolving the dispute, but every day of delay is costing thousands of Thai shrimp farmers.
While the former PM is ‘no longer a political magnet’, analysts say he will still be behind the scenes as Pheu Thai tries to make a comeback.
Southeast Asia’s second- and third-largest economies opt for bilateral insurance over reliance on the regional bloc.
The worst attack on the city in recent history killed 20, including tourists from China, Malaysia and Singapore.
Prices have collapsed and buyers have vanished since Malaysia banned Thai shrimp. Bangkok is now threatening WTO action.
Thailand is investigating businesses that circumvent curbs on foreign ownership by using Thai nationals for majority ownership registration.
Russian and Chinese firms are also competing to be the first to reach a tungsten mine in a conflict zone, sparking concerns of NGOs.
The ban comes as Thailand’s embattled fisheries sector faces increased competition, tariffs, shrimp disease, rising costs and reduced catch.
The former leader served eight months of a one-year sentence for corruption before he was released on parole last month due to his age.
Critics of the religious practice claim that a ‘two-tier’ policing framework protects British ethnic minorities at the expense of others.
The men emerged weak and dazed to an outpouring of emotion from rescuers and relatives on the muddy topside. Two others remain missing.
The president, who visited Ho Chi Minh’s former home in Udon Thani, will meet the Thai king and hold talks with PM Anutin.
A Thai-led rescue team broke through to an area where they found the five villagers on a muddy ledge, but two others remain missing.
