Thai Rath


Thai Rath is a daily newspaper in Thai published in Bangkok and distributed nationwide. The paper is a broadsheet published with two sections. The first section is devoted to news. Although the news section is best known for its sensationalist coverage of crime and accidents, it also includes stories on Thai politics, economy and society. The second section features coverage of sport and entertainment. Thai Rath is the oldest newspaper in their native language and best-selling newspaper in Thailand, claiming a circulation in excess of 1 million copies daily.

History

Thai Rath was founded on 25 December 1962 by Kampol Wacharapol. Kampol had started two other newspapers, Khaopap Raiwan, which was published between 1950 and 1958, when the newspaper was shut down by the government. Following the shutdown of the newspaper, and the government did not allow any new newspapers, he "rent" the Siang Ang Thong newspaper name from Mr. Laor Ketkaew, and the newspaper was published between 1 May 1959 to 25 December 1962.
Thai Rath has been the largest-selling Thai newspaper for decades.

Political stance

Controversy

Thai Rath is the only one Thai newspaper that published a photo of the body of David Carradine. You can see a copy of the newspaper front page with the photo here:

Online edition

In the first half of 2020 the website thairath.co.th was one of the most popular and reliable sources in Thai Wikipedia.
According to Alexa, the website thairath.co.th is the 16th most popular website in Thailand.