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SONGKHLA — Hundreds have sought medical help in the south of Thailand as smoke and haze from Indonesia’s slash-and-burn farming spread has spread to blanket the region.

BANGKOK — To celebrate its 50 anniversary, legendary German rock act Scorpions will stop by to perform live in October.

The capital’s underground music scene mourned the loss of a former nightlife institution last year after Dark Bar shut its doors once and for all, afflicted by authorities’ progressively tougher measures to quieten the after hours party scene in Bangkok.

BANGKOK — Eighties hardcore punk band Agnostic Front will touch down in the capital to rock out for the first time.

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre
Reuters

PATTAYA — Filipina Trixie Maristela was crowned Miss International Queen 2015 on Friday at a contest billed as the world's largest transgender pageant.

BANGKOK — Tim Hortons is coming to town: hunker down with a steaming cup of dark roast, a sausage bagel, and a vanilla donut...

By Genevieve Glatsky BANGKOK — A dusty, unremarkable residential area off Naradhiwas Road seems an odd location for the hub of Bangkok’s next generation of...

BANGKOK — Artists and art aficionados were relieved to learn an important space for thought-provoking art will reopen after renovations are completed in two years, though there was skepticism about what the future would bring.

PRACHUAP KIRI KHAN — Following decades of bureaucratic delays, Thai authorities have finally granted citizenship to descendants of Thais who found themselves without a formal nationality after the British Empire declared their homes to be in Burmese territory nearly 150 years ago.

BANGKOK — Thailand's military government has asked New Zealand authorities to confirm whether a 23-year-old Thai charged with lese majeste has been granted asylum there.