Bangkok, Thailand

  • 19 Jan 2014

    Explosions in the Thai capital injure 28 and shake Bangkok’s reputation as an open, easy-going city. Asia Correspondent John Sparks blogs about changes in Thailand.

  • 12 Dec 2013

    Temporarily homeless and dismissed by opponents as a “dim-witted puppet”, Yingluck Shinawatra seems determined to hold on to power in Thailand.

  • 6 Mar 2012

    Channel 4 News Asia Correspondent John Sparks asks what Thailand has to gain from proving the innocence or guilt of the Iranian state following the Bangkok bombings?

  • 12 Feb 2012

    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.

  • 5 Oct 2011

    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.

  • 3 Aug 2011

    Mr Chuvit was widely known as the “Godfather of the Thai sex industry”. He owned six “massage parlours” off a tatty stretch of motorway in northern Bangkok. But something changed, as John Sparks blogs.

  • 17 May 2010

    Video blog: Asia correspondent Nick Paton Walsh shows the looting in a shop in Bangkok amid the violent Red Shirt protests.

  • 16 May 2010

    Nick Paton Walsh blogs from Bangkok on how Thailand’s political crisis seems to be nearing an end.

  • 14 May 2010

    Asia correspondent Nick PAton Walsh writes that the Thai protests have been “the most sporadic, volatile and unpredictable of protests, but it appears to be coming to an endgame”.

  • 22 Apr 2010

    Asia correspondent Nick Paton Walsh reports from Thailand’s capital where anti-government protesters continue to demonstrate after weeks of clashes with soldiers and police.