With Thailand’s foreign tourism sector closed and stasis at the top driven by virus fears, the economy’s industrial and domestic base is also being ravaged.… Read More ›
New lineup sees only two sitting Palang Pracharat MPs and one ex-MP elevated to a ministerial role. It is also coming at a time of… Read More ›
Minister for Digital Economy and Society, Buddhipongse Punnakanta, criticised Facebook this week for offering ‘little cooperation’ to Thai authorities in removing material requested under current… Read More ›
The escalating tensions between the US and China are now at unprecedented levels. It is time for foreigners in Thailand and those with ties to… Read More ›
Dismal set of figures from the Ministry of Commerce on exports just adds to the economic woes facing the Prime Minister’s proposed new economic team… Read More ›
Nadet Sitmanomai used a van he had borrowed from his employer in Samut Sakhon as an instrument of murder on 42-year-old Somkiat Kriangkraiwakin as he… Read More ›
The deepening economic effect of this crisis is leaving behind a ravaged tourism industry in hotspots such as Bangkok, Pattaya and Phuket. Swathes of the… Read More ›
Deputy Army Chief, Nattapol Nakpanich, says the State of Emergency is required to manage the screening and entry of returning Thais and foreigners into the… Read More ›
Political experts in Thailand are not holding out much hope for the flash protests staged on Saturday evening and Sunday organised by a body calling… Read More ›
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The shocking poll number comes as one of Thailand’s leading health practitioners, Dr Prasit Watanapa of Siriraj University, has called for the government to tighten… Read More ›
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A flurry of phone calls and approaches to top business and financial executives in the past week has been made as Prime Minister Prayut Chan… Read More ›
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Standoff in Khlong Toei as police were called at 8 pm after a European Union diplomat insisted on access. The incident drew clarification today from… Read More ›
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Wednesday’s shock resignation of the non-aligned economic team will lead to a cabinet reshuffle at an earlier stage. It may also lead to political infighting… Read More ›
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Outgoing Bank of Thailand boss, Veerathai Santiprabhob, says economic recovery may mean having to live with up to 30 infections per day as the government… Read More ›
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Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) gave details surrounding the visit by 31 military personnel to Rayong onboard an Egyptian… Read More ›
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A 43-year-old Egyptian soldier was only tested on Saturday having flown from Rayong’s UTapao Airport on Friday to Chengdu in China and back again. The… Read More ›
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Prime Minister Prayut Chan ocha has revealed that he has already approached some economists to take up a role in his new government but that… Read More ›
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G4 was highlighted earlier this month by a team of Chinese disease control experts and derives from the 2009 Swine flu or H1N1 virus. The… Read More ›
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The move comes as Thailand’s economic leadership resumes regular meetings with dismal numbers emerging from the country’s industrial and export sector for May. Thailand’s exports,… Read More ›
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Thailand’s Covid 19 centre has warned of complacency among the Thai public following the publication of an opinion poll this week which showed two-thirds of… Read More ›
Public virus fear: Poll shows that 95% of people want foreigners barred from entering Thailand at this time 
PM facing a political challenge from within the ruling party which put him into power in 2019 over cabinet plans 
Visa amnesty ‘grace period’ being drafted says government official but must first get top-level assent 
Economic team led by Somkid quits government in a shock move as rumours spread of a new lineup 
Entry for privileged groups tightened up as flack swirls over Egyptian military’s flying visit to Rayong 
Stranded foreigners must get embassy letter, new visa or leave Thailand to avoid arrest by police 
Plans to relaunch tourism from China thrown out as conflicting reports emerge of a new swine flu virus threat 
Agony for stranded western foreigners as ‘Fast-track’ Chinese charter flight jets in from Shanghai 
Thai economy has until October to rebound or bad debts will begin to weigh heavily on the banks 
Russian woman arrested for suspected filicide in Pattaya after surviving 3rd-floor condo jump 
Thailand is red-lighted in the UK for quarantine purposes alongside Brazil, China and the US, inexplicable move 
Move to prevent a tourism wipeout as minister pushes 3 phase plan especially targeting Chinese tourists 
Buriram judge brokers justice for Danish man and his Thai wife after abrupt relationship breakdown 
IATA calls on countries like Thailand to think again over quarantine schemes and travel curbs costing jobs 
Slow progress as list of foreigners allowed entry expands but there is some confusion at embassies 
Thailand’s closure biting harder as one airline gets ready to cease operations forever and lays off staff 
Bangkok Metropolitan police officer gets bail in court after admitting he killed his pretty wife unintentionally 
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