IN Cambodia, we met our son and his girlfriend, fresh from their two-day voyage on a slow boat down the Mekong from north Thailand into Laos, and cheerful despite their 20-hour bus journey to meet us at Siem Reap.

An elephant is being treated by vets after it was injured by a land mine near the border between Thailand and Burma.

An artificially-inseminated elephant has given birth in Thailand to a ’bouncing baby boy’, a first in Asia that could be a crucial step in conserving the endangered species.

Search dogs led rescuers to three bodies buried under mud and two people who had passed out on a hill, starving, days after torrential rains triggered flash floods in northern Thailand, officials said today.