Wilawan Emsawat, thought to be in her mid-30s, was arrested at her home in Nonthaburi province, just north of Bangkok, ...

Wilawan Emsawat, in her mid-30s, was arrested at her home in Nonthaburi province north of the capital Bangkok on charges ...

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

Wilawan Emsawat has caused chaos in Thailand with her sordid affairs with several monks, and then subsequent extortion, which ...

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. Thai police ...

Thai police this week arrested a woman accused of bedding at least 11 monks in violation of their vows of celibacy, before ...

Thai police investigate senior monks in connection with extorting hundreds of millions for temple projects. The case is ...

Thailand’s new Monk Misconduct Complaint Centre, which investigates clergy misdeeds. The centre aims to separate individual ...

The case of Wirapol Sukphol, the infamous “jet-set monk” who was sentenced to over 100 years in prison for fraud, money ...

The 2025 Open Championship is officially underway at Royal Portrush. While the spotlight is on big names like Rory McIlroy ...

Women should be prosecuted for having sex with monks, Thai politicians have proposed, amid a nationwide scandal over an ...