BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) --A man dressed as a Buddhist monk and wielding an AK-47 assault rifle was arrested after he took 30 hostages at a security checkpoint on the grounds of Thailand's ...

BANGKOK: A Thai court was set Thursday to charge a disgraced ex-monk with raping an under-age girl, fraud and money laundering after he was extradited from the United States. Thailand is an ...

For hundreds of years, men have been visiting this Thai Budhhist temple famous for its tattoo culture. Monks use fine point needles to ink sacred tattoos or 'sak yant' by hand on to the devotees ...

(JKDM Kedah pic) PETALING JAYA: The customs department arrested a Thai national with 14,000 methamphetamine pills at the Langkawi ferry terminal’s international arrival hall last Wednesday.

Thailand’s most senior monk? Meanwhile, allegations of ‘cheque-book Buddhism’, cronyism and corruption abound – including allegations about tax-evasion on an imported vintage Mercedes car.

SILVER SPRING, Md. — The monks of the Wat Thai Washington DC Buddhist temple had a memorial service Sunday morning for congregation members who died over the last year. The service was meant to ...

Bangkok (AFP) - Thailand's Buddhist monks could soon be issued "smart ID cards" flagging any drug or criminal records, in the latest move by the junta to restore the tarnished image of the men in ...

Not long after, however, the black market for meth took root in San Francisco. Motorcycle gangs, notably the Hell's Angels, started to make and distribute the drug. It followed where they went ...

From the United States, travelers can expect to spend a day or longer flying to Thailand. The U.S. embassy in Thailand is located at 120/22 Wireless Road, Bangkok (tel. 66-2-205-4000). There is a ...

This great, fast version of American-style pad thai with shrimp has an appealing combination of sweet, sour, and spicy flavors. For this shrimp pad thai recipe, fish sauce is combined with light ...

World-class fakeaway incoming… Saiphin says: “A few years ago a friend was planning to visit a temple in Thailand. She wanted to make fishcakes for the monks, not realizing that Thai monks don ...