Reverence for the saffron-robed Buddhist monkhood is deeply woven into Thai society, but a sex extortion scandal has besmirched the clergy and left the devout questioning their faith.

Police in Thailand have arrested a woman who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and then ...

A woman named Wilam Emsawat, aged 30 years, was arrested at her luxury home in Nonthaburi, just north of Bangkok. She is ...

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The scandal first surfaced in mid-June when the abbot of the prestigious Wat Tri Thotsathep monastery abruptly left the ...

The Bank of Thailand along with SEC has invited public comments on the launch of the crypto sandbox across the country that ...

Thailand expects the US to reduce a threatened tariff on its exports from 36% to a level in line with regional neighbors ...

The controversy erupted after Phra Thep Wachirapamok—widely known as Arch—the highly respected abbot of Bangkok’s Wat Tri ...

Nine monks, including high-ranking abbots from well-known temples, have since been defrocked. At least two have gone into ...

At least nine abbots and senior monks involved in the scandal have been disrobed and cast out of the monkhood, police said.

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