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Bank of Thailand and Indonesia`s Financial Services Authority signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) committing efforts to strengthen banking supervision in both countries. Antara News reported that the MoU was signed by Chairman of the OJK Commissioner Wimboh Santoso and Governor of the Bank of Thailand Veerathai Santiprabhob on the sidelines of the Annual Meeting of
Friday, October 12, 2018: Up to 2.5 million people can vote in the Democrat “primary”, a virtual survey on who party members want as the next leader of Thailand’s oldest political camp, the party’s poll officials said. It was initially believed that only about 80,000 people could vote after reconfirming their party membership earlier this
Wearing yellow, the colour of the late HM the King, thousands of people joined the medical staff of Siriraj hospital to hold a merit-making and alm-offering ceremony in front of the hospital on Saturday morning in remembrance of the second year of passing of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Members of the public presented alms
Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwon today confirmed that the government has replaced the leader of the government’s team responsible for holding peace dialogue with southern insurgent groups. But he declined to confirm whether it is Gen Udomchai Thammasaro-rat, a former commander of the Fourth Army Region, who will lead the peace
The Thai Foreign Ministry has dismissed rumours that Thailand is imposing a limited quota of visas for Chinese visitors to Thailand. The ministry had checked with the Thai embassy in Beijing and learned that those rumours were partially based on a recent shortage of visa stickers at the Thai embassy and consular offices in China,
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and other ASEAN leaders have arrived in Bali today for an informal gathering of the regional leaders. The inaugural ASEAN Leaders’ Gathering (ALG) ALG is a brainchild of Indonesian President Joko Widodo. The gathering is held simultaneously with the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank from
Thursday, October 11, 2018: Key political figures provided no major development today, but sources within Pheu Thai explained a very interesting strategy to cope with possible dissolution of the party. It was initially thought that if Pheu Thai was dissolved too close to the election, that would be the end of it, as its election
In the third conviction concerning with the fake bomb detector known as GT200, Avia Satcom executive Sutthiwat Wattanakit was on Wednesday sentenced to nine years imprisonment by Don Mueang District Court for the supply of 6.8 million baht worth of the bogus detectors to the Central Forensic Science Institute. The court found Sutthiwat guilty
PTT Public Company’s attempt to take over Glow Energy Company or GLOW has been blocked by the Energy Regulatory Commission. An informed source said the commission on Wednesday decided with a unanimous vote to reject the plan of Global Power Synergy Company Limited (GPSC), a subsidiary of PTT Public Company, to acquire up to
ASEAN leaders have agreed to reduce disparity in development in the member countries during an informal gathering held on the sidelines of the IMF-WB annual meetings in Bali, Indonesia. Ananta News reported that President Joko Widodo said in a press statement after the ASEAN Leaders` Gathering on Thursday said ASEAN leaders agreed on the importance
What was supposed to be Abhisit Vejjajiva’s stroll to a new term as the Democrat leader has apparently changed. Whispers within Thailand’s oldest political camp have it that chances for an upset in its leadership contest are a lot bigger than anyone thought, thanks largely to two key factors. The first factor is the
People watch Hurricane Michael October 10, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. Michael slammed into the Florida coast on October 10 as the most powerful storm to hit the southern US state in more than a century as officials warned it could wreak “unimaginable devastation.” Michael made landfall as a Category 4 storm near Mexico Beach,
NEW YORK/DUBAI (Reuters) – Media companies are pulling out of a Saudi investment conference because of growing outrage over the disappearance of a prominent Saudi journalist in Turkey this month. Economist Editor-In-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes will not participate in the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, spokeswoman Lauren Hackett said in an email. Andrew Ross
An ethnic Mon man implicated in the Saiyok National Park wildlife hunting trip told police he was forced by two men in the poaching group to shoot the bearcat. Identified only as Tata, he said he works as a caretaker at Tao Dum monastery in the national park, in Saiyok district of Kanchanaburi. The suspect
Tuesday, October 9, 2018: It was a day of verbal wars. Suthep Thaugsuban, who led massive street protests against the Yingluck government and is a key member of the Action Coalition of Thailand Party, warned that any attempt to “tear up” Thailand’s new Constitution would be tantamount to an “unacceptable insult” on nearly 17 million
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its projection of Thailand’s economic growth for this year to 4.6% from 3.9% last year, while cutting the economic growth forecast of Asean. In its global economic growth forecasts for 2018 and 2019, released Tuesday, the IMF however projected that Thailand’s economy would grow only 3.9% next year.
