The South Thailand provinces of Pattani and Narathiwat are pretty much at the bottom of the heap in terms of tourism. That is set to change over the next three years thanks to upcoming improvements in ...

BANGKOK (AP) – It happens with horrifying frequency in southern Thailand, a country much of the world associates with pristine beaches and alluring, sapphire blue seas: a bomb goes off. Victims are ...

HAT YAI, Thailand — Largely forgotten by the public, politicians and the media, the flood crisis that Hat Yai, the largest city in the south of Thailand, experienced in November 2025 is far from over.

To call Thailand an international destination right now is a major understatement. Bangkok was 2024's most visited city in the world at a mind-boggling 32.4 million visitors (per Euromonitor), while ...

Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is the darling of millions of Thai voters, but his human rights record legacy in the Deep South is as bleak and dismal as his military rivals’. That cannot ...

Battlefields to Trading Fields: Turning South Thailand into Tourism and Trade Hub The southern border provinces are located in the central part of the Malay Peninsula and are a central point of ...

For months the Thai government has been trying to come to grips with the sporadic Communist terrorism along the country’s northeast frontier with Laos. Bangkok has devoted less attention to a similar ...