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 ...
This is the moment a husband catches his politician wife in bed with their adopted Buddhist monk son in a scandal that has rocked Thailand. Footage shows the moment the suspicious businessman ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Phra Shine Wara Dhammo, 55, has become increasingly vocal about his pro-abortion stance – a controversial position in Buddhist Thailand Credit: Sarah Newey “Normally monks don’t really talk ...
(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.
The survey was conducted among 1,310 participants aged 15 years and over on March 18-20 about the Public Health Ministry regulation allowing people found in possession of up to five meth pills to ...
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 ...