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 ...

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Tun Min Lat climbs a bamboo ladder in the longan orchards of eastern Thailand, moving from tree to tree as he plucks the ...

When National Geographic photographer Rena Effendi traveled to northern Thailand, she was in search of a story about sustainable farming. What she found was something deeper: a quiet revolution rooted ...

Whatever the outcome of Viet Nam’s vicious war, the next target of Communist aggression in Southeast Asia will doubtless be Thailand. Already the nation’s six northeastern provinces, whose population ...

Whether drying seeds with computer fans or fashioning water filters from barrels, a global agriculture ministry combats poverty with improvisation. In the fight against world hunger, Patrick Trail ...

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra pleads not guilty to corruption charges after returning from exile. He remains very popular, particularly among Thailand's rural people and urban poor for ...

Growing up in Thailand’s northeastern Isan region, Suwimon Chantajohn learned from her grandfather which insects were best to eat. Captivated by his stories of surviving on bugs during his military ...

Bangkok: Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, who supervised royal projects to help the rural poor, preserve traditional craft-making and protect the environment, died on Friday. She was 93. The Royal ...