The Latest Breaking News from Bangkok

The best of Bangkok’s crop of new schools, Wellington College International School Bangkok held an extraordinary Open Morning on Saturday, 22nd January. Despite the very ‘British’ weather (it poured with rain relentlessly throughout), spirits were high and the school was most welcoming to the crowd of keen parents and children…

The ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) has pledged to make a greater effort to appeal to the general public following a crushing defeat in Bangkok's Constituency 9 on Sunday.

There were 16 more Covid-19 fatalities and 8,008 new cases recorded during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Monday morning.

Pol Maj Gen Phanthana Nutchanart, 49, has distinguished himself as a tech-savvy cyber-crimebuster going after online scammers and transnational gangsters.

The first local transmission of Omicron confirmed in Thailand on Dec 20 last year prompted the government to abruptly suspend new registrations for quarantine-free entry into the country and raise the Covid-19 alert to level 4 amid fears over the highly contagious variant.

Surachart Thienthong of the Pheu Thai Party won a by-election in Bangkok's Constituency 9 by a landslide on Sunday.

The tragic death of an ophthalmologist struck by a powerful motorbike while negotiating a zebra crossing in Bangkok has exposed deep-seated flaws in traffic law, its enforcement and motorists' disregard for discipline.

A total of 800 police officers will be deployed to maintain order at 280 polling units during Sunday’s by-election in in northern Bangkok, police say.

Sunday's by-election in Bangkok is likely to be a two-horse race between the Pheu Thai and the Kla parties, according to a political analyst.