In 2004, Fatima Bouchar and her husband, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, were detained en route to the UK, and rendered to Libya. This is the story of their imprisonment, and the trail of evidence that reveals the involvement of the British government

Published: 9/04/2012 at 02:14 AM Newspaper section: News A manhunt by Interpol and Italian police for a fugitive banker accused of mafia ties ended quietly in Thailand after 26 years. Italian businessman and mafiamoney launderer Palazzolo Vito Roberto talks to a Thai immigration

Published: 18/03/2012 at 02:23 AM Newspaper section: News For people on a fixed salary, the runaway cost of living has bitten deep into their pockets and many are forced to take second and even third jobs to make ends meet. State employee Arpasri Khamjui sells food during weekends

Published: 18/03/2012 at 03:35 AM Newspaper section: News A senior Thai diplomat in the western Laos city of Savannakhet has raised concerns about Thais who cross the second Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge from Thailand's Mukdahan to "get lucky" gambling at a casino there. Russ Jali

Published: 17/03/2012 at 09:11 PM Online news: Thai Airways International is reviewing its plan to acquire 38 new aircraft after it lost more than 10 billion baht last year, says chairman Amphon Kittiamphon. The board of the national carrier instructed management to conduct a ca

PM supports retention areas, walls and dykes Published: 18/02/2012 at 03:35 AM Newspaper section: NewsBangkokPost The government has approved an additional budget of 5 billion baht to implement 117 urgent water management projects ranging from upstream to downstream areas, Prime M

Sukhumbhand urges alert for whole of city Published: 18/02/2012 at 03:31 AM Newspaper section: NewsBangkokPost Police investigators believe two other suspects may have been involved in the bomb blasts that shook Sukhumvit Soi 71 on Tuesday. A security officer uses a Segway to c

Global financial watchdog adds Thailand to its 'grey list' Published: 17/02/2012 at 06:21 PM Online news: Security Thailand has been named a "high risk" jurisdiction by the global Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for its failure to take sufficient steps to guard against money la

Buddhist temple has been built by monks in northeast Thailand who used over a million recycled beer bottles to make the walls and roof. Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, also known as Wat Lan Kuad or ‘the Temple of a Million Bottles’, is about 400 miles northeast of Bangkok in the city of Khun Han clo

Up to 50,000 residents of In Buri district of Sing Buri may be evacuated if the broken dyke at the Bang Chom Sri water sluice gate cannot be fixed fast enough, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said yesterday.  Ms Yingluck made an aerial inspection of the gate aboard a helicopter and later c