James Lovelock, Bangkok

Life is cheap in Thailand's murder capital

Gun violence spirals out of control in southern Thailand where scores are killed every year over trivial matters

Thailand needs more courageous media

Journalists become part of the problem when they self-censor and refuse to discuss sensitive topics

Sex abuse scandal at Thai school sparks outrage

Parents speak out after school administrators try to bribe them to hush up the sexual assault of boy

Young Thais resort to desperate measures to protest unjust law

Accused of insulting Thailand's royal family, a young activist cut his own arm during his trial

Thai anti-government protesters defy crackdown

PM Prayut under pressure to resign as rallies call for the people's freedoms to be restored

Thailand's saffron scandals undermine trust in Buddhism

Latest murder by a monk highlights the hidebound conservatism and conspiracy of silence that prevails at Thai monasteries

Horns blaring, car mob take to streets of Thai capital again

Protesters are undaunted by increasingly brutal police crackdowns as they step up calls for PM Prayut to resign

Elderly left to die as Thailand's Covid crisis worsens

Tragedies are taking place daily across the country as the pandemic shows little sign of abating

Thais facing poverty and ruin as Covid-19 surges

Most lay the blame on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's inept administration, and rightly so

Young activists in firing line as Thailand's Covid strategy fails

Military-allied regime slaps protesters with royal defamation charges as its tourism-dependent economy collapses

Lao farmers abandon rural areas in droves

Large-scale projects by the communist regime have left many villagers without any farmland to cultivate

Suffer the children: Laos does little to tackle child labor

Many parents see little point in educating their children as schooling is not required for menial tasks and agricultural work

Filipino pastor claims new Covid variant is God's punishment

Korean Church raises funds to renovate care homes for elderly

Defrocked Timor-Leste priest's trial reaches final stage

Yet another Catholic church destroyed by Myanmar junta

Singapore, Malaysia ease Covid curbs at busy border

Japan to bar new foreign arrivals over virus variant