Bangkok
(2000 est. pop. 10 million). Bangkok is situated on the Chao Phraya River. It is both the capital and hub of the country; Bangkok's residents establish standards, outlook, dress, and p...
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Bangkok Declaration
Beset by internal conflicts and divided by ideology, history, religion, and culture, various countries in Southeast Asia came to recognize the need for some sort of cooperative gro...
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Authorities detained 15 suspects, including some military officers, in connection with a string of New Year's bombings that killed three people and threw celebrations in the Thai capital into chaos...
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At Bangkok's watery gates, Buddhist monks cling to a shrinking spit of land around their temple as they wage war against the relentlessly rising sea.During the monsoons at high tide, waves hurdle t...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Climate experts and state representatives from 105
countries met Friday to formally adopt a 24-page report on means of
mitigating the worse impacts of global...
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They're crowded, sticky and sweltering hot, but when it comes to bargain-hunting, Bangkok's markets are well worth the effort.
Scout for that dream table lamp, wooden chest ...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Two commercial passenger airports might be serving
Bangkok by March 15 if a proposal by the Airports Authority of
Thailand gets cabinet approval, media repor...
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Bangkok (dpa) - The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will
launch a survey of the capital's 5.5 million vehicles to determine
how many are environemntally unfriendly and o...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Thailand's criminal court sentenced a Bangkok
businesswoman to seven years imprisonment for physically abusing and
enslaving a 13-year-old servant girl, medi...
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Myanmar's national airline has suspended its daily flights to
Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur since Thursday because recent unrest in
Myanmar has made an international insurer decline to renew the
...
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Bangkok (dpa) - The United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) which gathers in Bangkok this week is expected
to throw its weight behind nuclear energy...
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Bangkok
15 questioned in Bangkok bombings
