KHON KAEN/UDON THANI – For the past two decades, Thailand’s north-east rural heartland has been an electoral stronghold for Thaksin Shinawatra, delivering staunch support for the billionaire ...

This paper studies how increasing migration changes the character of migrant streams in sending communities. Cumulative causation theory posits that past migration patterns determine future flows, as ...

Thailand’s longstanding urban–rural political divide is evolving. While Bangkok’s middle class once backed the conservative establishment, many now embrace the reformist Move Forward Party (MFP), ...

Worrawit Saepu resents being characterized as a money-grubbing illiterate too stupid to vote. The 23-year-old grew up in a village in northern Thailand and still passionately supports Thaksin ...

The World Bank study finds that greater rainfall and healthier vegetation improve welfare and reduce poverty and inequality ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Billions of dollars in government spending aimed at revitalising Thailand's ailing rural economy have failed to reach farmers hit by weak commodity prices and drought, fuelling ...

It is not often that one gets to make the acquaintance of a true “Renaissance Man.” Well-schooled and able to converse about multiple subjects in many languages, a Renaissance Man is master of many ...

A Chilean man who began an around-the-world bicycle journey four years ago and was closing in on a Guinness distance record has been killed. Juan Francisco Guillermo was hit by a passing pickup truck ...

Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit has died at the age of 93 after contracting blood infection while in hospital. She is revered ...

CHIANG MAI (Reuters) - When hundreds of jubilant demonstrators flocked to Chiang Mai's train station on Friday to welcome fellow "red shirts" driven out of Bangkok, the message was clear -- their ...