Supattra Vimonsuknopparat is the producer in the ABC's Bangkok bureau. She joined the ABC in 2008 after working as a freelance producer for several international news outlets in Thailand.
After the deaths of six young backpackers, including two Australians, due to methanol poisoning in Laos, a distiller explains how untrained or unscrupulous brewers can easily create a deadly concoction.
The two teenage girls from Melbourne are reportedly fighting for their lives in Thai hospitals after drinking suspected tainted cocktails in Laos.
Australian boxing champion Jayson Tonkin is in a coma after he was found next to the body of his dead friend and fellow boxer, Joshua Goldstone, at a hotel in Thailand.
Thousands of long-tail macaques are following increasingly aggressive ringleaders into attacks on tourists and schoolkids, and now they're wising up to the "Anti-Monkey Unit's" tactics, leaving the town no choice but to try and round them up before they storm another police station.
Authorities arrest an American man over the fatal stabbing of a Perth man during a holiday to Thailand.
As fans eagerly wait for a new lot of guests to check into the White Lotus, a behind-the-scenes drama has been unfolding to secure the filming location of the Emmy-award winning show.
Myanmar has started to impose conscription laws that require young men and women to join the military. But people the ABC spoke to are considering getting married or fleeing the country to exploit a loophole.
After Thailand decriminalised the sale of marijuana for recreational use in 2022, weed dispensaries have exploded around the country, but already the future of this industry is up in the air.
A well-known Thai fugitive known as "Wealthy Pang" has been on the run since October, and his TikTok videos taunting the police chasing him have stirred up some serious questions about corruption and misconduct in the country's most powerful institutions.
On the holiday island of Phuket, an influx of Russians buying property and setting up their own businesses is driving up prices and driving a wedge between the new residents and Thai locals.
Investigators looking into the poisoning of a woman on a pier unearthed a string of other crimes connected with "Am Cyanide". This is how Thailand's worst suspected serial killer was brought undone.
A powerful village chief invited dozens of police officers to his house for a wild party. But when one of them wound up dead, it kicked off a huge scandal that threatens the unchecked power of Thailand’s authorities.
The city of Bangkok is sinking, with coastal residents rebuilding their homes on stilts and erecting giant walls to protect sacred buildings from being swallowed by the sea.
Pita Limjaroenrat was the only candidate for leader of his party, which was the top finisher in May's general election, and was hoping to have another tilt but opponents say he was unqualified to run due to owning shares in a media company.
The leader of Thailand's pro-reform party has been blocked from taking power. Here's what could happen next.
Pita Limjaroenrat is a charismatic young businessman-turned-politician whose party has been climbing the polls. Here's how Move Forward is making is mark on mainstream Thai politics.
Thailand's rising political star is Paetongtarn Shinawatra, a 36-year-old heiress, who is determined to break the cycle of coups and court battles that have dogged her powerful family for years.
A former worker at the Australian embassy in Bangkok has been sentenced to two years' jail for installing tiny hidden cameras in women's bathrooms inside the secure government building.
A former staff member at the Australian embassy in Thailand pleads guilty to installing tiny hidden cameras inside women's bathrooms at the secure government building.
Since coup leaders took control of Myanmar two years ago, Kanchana Thornton has never been busier, helping injured villagers and resistance fighters fleeing despotic rulers.
The people of Uthai Sawan — one of the poorest communities in Thailand — are struggling to come to terms with the shocking attack that claimed 37 lives at a local daycare centre. WARNING: Readers may find details in this story distressing.
It was once known for its zero tolerance policy. Now it has some of the most lax cannabis laws in the world.
In Thailand, it's forbidden for women to be ordained as monks. But one woman has found a way to defy the all-male clergy and has helped hundreds of other women do the same.
Deep in the jungle where Myanmar, Laos and Thailand's borders meet lies the Golden Triangle, a trafficking heartland where drug runners and police play a dangerous — and sometimes deadly — game of cat and mouse.
Thailand’s sex industry generates billions of dollars, but the workers have to work in the shadows because it’s not legal. Now Thai sex workers have been holding protests, wielding high heels and underwear, to demand their labour be recognised and regulated.