A Miss Universe executive singled out and criticized one contestant at an event in Thailand, causing an international controversy after the video went viral.

Thailand has entered a period of national mourning after Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother, died on Oct. 24, 2025 at the age of 93. But despite the mourning period, Thai officials have said the country still remains open to visitors.

Elderly Thais still remember the early years, when she charmed Western crowds. According to Thai tradition, a good king must model Buddha-like equanimity. The counterpose to Bhumibol’s stoicism was Sirikit’s glamour. The combination made the royal couple wildly popular among their subjects during their seven-decade reign.

India is repatriating the first batch of hundreds of its nationals who last month fled to Thailand from Myanmar, where most had been working at a notorious center for online scams.

Alicia Machado, who won the title in 1996 and is now an Venezuelan-American, did a livestream on Nov. 5 to comment on the controversy involving the director of Miss Universe Thailand, Nawat Itsaragrisil, and Miss Mexico, Fatima Bosch.

Under the agreement, Thailand will support the sale of rice to Singapore on “mutually agreed terms” upon request by the Singapore government. Both countries have also committed to keeping rice trade “open, transparent and mutually beneficial”, while avoiding “unnecessary restrictive measures”.

For the past two weeks, Cambodian migrant Mony Sunret has been hanging around an electrical workshop in the Thai province of Rayong, hoping to pick up odd jobs and save enough money to make a covert exit from Thailand.

Prince Andrew allegedly once had 40 prostitutes brought to his five-star hotel during a taxpayer-funded trip to Thailand, his biographer has claimed.

Q3 2025 Management View CEO Dustin Olson highlighted "another quarter of meaningful progress for PureCycle across all parts of the business," noting the ramping of operations and initial shipments to key customers in Q4.