Thai authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Somsak Onchuenjit, a lawyer and land rights activist, in Trang province in southern Thailand, Human Rights Watch said today.

Welcome to the Land of Smiles. Thailand has never been the happy carefree place that many non-Thais have been led to believe Ornchai Kittiwongsakul / AFP / Getty Images. By David Stout.

Thailand will for allow foreigners to fully own land for residential use, a government official said on Friday, seeking to boost its economy by attracting a million new big-spending residents from ...

Thailand's indigenous people risk losing more of their land to hotels and national parks amid an unchecked tourism boom that has marginalised them, human rights groups warned on Friday.

Members of Thailand’s Moken ethnic group – known locally as “sea people” – are famed for their ability to stay underwater for long periods of time. Pre-pandemic, they earned money by ...

Oddar Meanchey provincial authorities remain puzzled about the Thai Appeal Court’s recent ruling in favour of more than 700 families who claimed to have been locked in a land dispute with three ...

Billionaire Prayudh Mahagitsiri issued the statement after a Thai court sentenced him to a 24-year jail sentence over the alleged land grabbing case.

Thailand was formed from a smattering of Buddhist kingdoms and the southern Islamic Sultanate of Pattani, which were brought to heel by successive monarchs from the current Chakri dynasty.