At least nine abbots and senior monks involved in the scandal have been disrobed and cast out of the monkhood, police said.

Police in Thailand have arrested a woman who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and then ...

BANGKOK: The National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) has released the findings of a new public opinion survey ...

Nine monks, including high-ranking abbots from well-known temples, have since been defrocked. At least two have gone into ...

Thai police have arrested a woman who allegedly had sexual relations with monks, and then used photos and videos of the acts ...

Wilawan Emsawat allegedly seduced and blackmailed several Buddhist monks to rake in large payments worth millions of euros ...

The monks in Thailand’s Chaiyaphum province wrap saffron robes around endangered trees to ‘ordain’ them and protect them from ...

The scandal first surfaced in mid-June when the abbot of the prestigious Wat Tri Thotsathep monastery abruptly left the ...

Reverence for the saffron-robed Buddhist monkhood is deeply woven into Thai society, but a sex extortion scandal has ...

Reverence for the saffron-robed Buddhist monkhood is deeply woven into Thai society, but a sex extortion scandal has ...

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

According to AP News, the woman, 35-year-old Wilawan Emsawat — known by the nickname Sika Kor, or "Ms. Golf" — had engaged in ...