Current Affairs

Water levels in the lower Mekong basin are at historic lows according to government and watchdog data despite the onset of the rainy season in South East Asia.According to data provided by the Mekong River Commission, the water...

Prawit Wongsuwan, seen as one of the masterminds behind the 2014 coup and a former military general, will be voted in as the leader of Thailand's ruling Palang Pracharath Party, local media and party insiders said on Thursday.Prawit...

Last week, the voters of Kaohsiung, Taiwan voted to throw out their mayor. The disgraced politician, Han Kuo-yu, had just earlier this year been on the presidential ballot. Now he has the dubious honour of being the first local...

Thailand's government said on Wednesday that it discovered no new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the 23rd straight day without cases outside of state quarantine.The number of cases remains at 3,135 infected.Three more patients have recovered...

The long-postponed Bangkok elections will be an early litmus test for public sentiment if it takes place at the end of 2020 as planned.Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha said this week that the elections will likely be held in...

The ruling Palang Pracharath party has been reaching out to members of the opposition as well as MPs of their coalition allies to tempt them into defecting and switching allegiances, several sources told Thai Enquirer on Wednesday.According to...

Phayao Akhad’s hands were shaking with nerves as she dialled her daughter's number. But after what felt like an eternity of anxious ringing, a man answered on the other end of the line instead of her eldest child, Kamolkade.“Hello?”...

Students, worshipers and caretakers of the Chao Mae Tub Tum Shrine gathered to protest against the removal of the shrine by Chulalongkorn University's Property Management Office on Monday with protesters say they plan on continuing protests to stop any...

Ford Tattep, a youth activist and alumni of Chulalongkorn University’s faculty of Political Science, was charged by police for violating the Emergency Decree for joining a protest demanding justice for victims of enforced disappearance.A post on an activist Facebook...

Thailand’s government said on Tuesday that it had discovered no new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the second day in a row that there have been no cases.The total number of infected stands at a 3,135...