Chiang Mai - The elephant that chose the site of Doi Suthep temple must have been a truly far-sighted creature. Legend has it that King Kuna wanted to build a temple to house a relic of the holy Buddha. He ordered that the precious artefact be strapped to the back of a white elephant which was let loose into the jungle.
The elephant stormed through the undergrowth and stopped just short of the summit of Suthep mountain. The monarch took this to be a sign and in 1388 he ordered that a spectacular golden temple be erected on the site. The building still clings to the slope of the peak today. Northern Thailand is hillier, cooler and compared with the south of the country, it calls for more effort on behalf of the tourists intent on discovering its charms.
Bangkok - Thai police were searching Monday for the body and identity of a foreigner whose head was found hanging by a rope off a Bangkok bridge over the weekend.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Sunday shot dead and beheaded a couple working on a rubber plantation in Yala province, part of Thailand's troubled deep south where an estimated 3,300 people have died violently over the past five years.
Assailants gunned down Khomphet Janyalert, 39, and his wife Yinjai, 38, at 7 am as they were driving their motorcycle to work at a plantation in Raman district of Yala province, 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, police said.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Sunday shot dead and beheaded a couple working on a rubber plantation in Yala province, part of Thailand's troubled deep south where an estimated 3,300 people have died violently over the past five years.
Assailants gunned down Khomphet Janyalert, 39, and his wife Yinjai, 38, at 7 am as they were driving their motorcycle to work at a plantation in Raman district of Yala province, 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, police said.
Phuket, Thailand - Finance ministers from South-east and East Asia met Sunday on the Thai tourist island of Phuket to try to come up with joint measures to tackle the effects on the region of the global economic slide.
Although institutional investors in East Asia generally stayed away from the kind of financial instruments that led to the current economic crisis in the West, the countries of the region have already experienced dramatic falls in volumes of exports to the West, with further drops expected.
Jakarta - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Saturday his government was conducting a comprehensive review of the way the conflict in the country's south was being handled, and promising a new direction to achieve peace.
A five-year-old conflict in Thailand's southernmost region has resulted in the loss of almost 3,300 lives and cost the state an estimated 109 billion baht (3.1 billion dollars).
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Sunday shot dead and beheaded a couple working on a rubber plantation in Yala province, part of Thailand's troubled deep south where an estimated 3,300 people have died violently over the past five years.
Pattani, Thailand - Suspected separatists on Sunday shot dead and beheaded a couple working on a rubber plantation in Yala province, part of Thailand's troubled deep south where an estimated 3,300 people have died violently over the past five years.
Phuket, Thailand - Finance ministers from South-east and East Asia met Sunday on the Thai tourist island of Phuket to try to come up with joint measures to tackle the effects on the region of the global economic slide.
Jakarta - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Saturday his government was conducting a comprehensive review of the way the conflict in the country's south was being handled, and promising a new direction to achieve peace.
