Thailand’s former prime minister appeared in court last week to defend his popular cooking show.

While prices of wheat, corn and other agricultural commodities have surged since the end of 2006, rice held fairly steady.Aware that shortages of such a vital staple could spell…

Dengue fever is sweeping South-East Asia in an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus that is already threatening to become the worst in almost a decade. Hospitals across the…

Two trucks with cages crammed with Burmese migrant workers halt abruptly beside the Thai-Burmese frontier’s river landing stage. Detainees, standing and sitting, are pressed hard…