Blog posts tagged "Thailand"

April 30, 2012 12:56 pm 1 Comment

Chiranuch Premchaiporn faces a jail-term of up to 50 years prison for "defaming, insulting, or threatening" Thailand’s royal family under the country’s ultra-strict "lese-majeste" laws.

February 21, 2012 11:16 am No Comments

John Sparks on developments in Thailand's international terrorism saga.

February 17, 2012 8:34 am No Comments

Thailand's politicians are struggling to explain to its public why it unwittingly played host to a botched bombing, writes Jon Sparks.

February 12, 2012 1:54 pm 18 Comments

Over the last five months, the Thai border police have made a series of spectacular animal seizures in the north east. Tens of thousands of dogs have been discovered, stuffed into 'pig cages', with ten or sometimes even fifteen animals packed into each one. Channel 4 News' Asia correspondent John Sparks reports.

December 28, 2011 4:45 pm 8 Comments

John Sparks meets the mothers who lost their sons on Thailand's roads - and who are campaigning to stop it happening again.

December 8, 2011 4:05 pm 2 Comments

The calls began in early October with panicked sounding 'pet' owners begging Dr 'Ning' Natarika to do something. Millions of Thais were evacuating their homes, taking only what they could carry. Everything else was left behind – and 'everything else' happens to include snakes, monkeys (including an endangered capuchin), wild boar, hundreds of deer, a couple of black panthers, Siberian tigers, black bears, a pride of lions and so on.

October 28, 2011 7:43 pm No Comments

The battlements are set and the trenches laid. In a part of town now called the “green zone” Bangkok’s commercial district is still dry for the most part but today we saw shop owners physically blocking themselves in, writes Asia Correspondent John Sparks. Thailand’s prime minister has called it “a crisis unprecedented in Thai history”. [...]

October 20, 2011 8:35 am 1 Comment

As flood waters encircle Thailand's capital of Bangkok, John Sparks observes the government's change in tune.

October 18, 2011 1:16 pm 11 Comments

I spoke to a senior government official. He told me that, "the situation is critical." He had seen the data he said but said the government didn't want release it for fear of "panicking people". I think many here would rather be forewarned.

October 5, 2011 8:09 pm No Comments

With over 200 already dead, Channel 4 News Asia Correspondent John Sparks sees for himself the devastation caused by the worst monsoon season Thailand has ever recorded.