New accusations involving illicit sex and blackmail have shaken the nation and opened a debate on the privileges monks enjoy ...

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 ...

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

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

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

An investigation into the sudden disappearance of a monk has uncovered a saga of blackmail, sex, extortion, rocking ...

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

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

A 35-year-old woman in Thailand has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing several monks with photos and videos of their ...

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

Who is Wilawan Emsawat? Wilawan Emsawat, known as 'Ms Golf,' was apprehended at her upscale residence in Nonthaburi, near ...