New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to more than one million works of art from nearly every era and corner of the globe. For years, it housed two bronze statues that were illegally ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Certain historical statues have been disappearing in Thailand, but they are not effigies of colonialists or slave owners torn down by protesters. Instead, Thailand’s vanishing ...

The giant Buddha statue of Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen temple is seen at the end of an avenue in Bangkok, Thailand, June 9, 2021. Reuters BANGKOK, June 21 – A Thai temple building a 230-foot Buddha ...

BANGKOKBANGKOK — Thailand’s National Museum hosted a welcome-home ceremony Tuesday for two ancient statues that were illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities and were ...

SONGKHLA, Thailand – Two small bombs exploded at a popular beach in southern Thailand, one of them damaging an iconic statue beloved by tourists, police said. Police in Songkhla province said they're ...

A Cambodian military police officer suspected of smuggling antiquities was arrested on Saturday after Thai soldiers found three Cambodian Buddhist statues in his car, Phnom Penh Post reports. The ...

BANGKOK – At a military base outside Bangkok, soldiers stand guard over Buddha statues, showcases of Rolex watches and some very expensive French wine — a $4,000 bottle of Petrus and choice vintages ...

Southeast Asia's so-called Golden Triangle -- the notorious border region of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand -- has long been an infamous hotspot for drug production and trafficking. Thai drugs officers ...

BANGKOK - Certain historical statues have been disappearing in Thailand, but they are not effigies of colonialists or slave owners torn down by protesters. Instead, Thailand's vanishing monuments ...