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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has unveiled its statistical forecast and budget allocation for the upcoming 2026 gubernatorial and city council elections. City Hall also projects a notable increase in both voter numbers and expenditure compared to the polls held in 2022.
A meeting between the foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia in New York has failed to reach a conclusion on stalled bilateral ties, including maritime boundary disputes, after Cambodia insisted on moving directly to compulsory conciliation under UN law, Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said.
The opposition People’s party has proposed two constitutional amendment drafts to parliament, seeking the creation of a 150-member Constitution Drafting Assembly by means of two different electoral systems.
The family of a deceased taxi driver on Samui Island has sought help and witness protection from the Justice Ministry following the fatal shooting of a family member on Sunday.
Rescue teams today reached five of the seven Laotians who have been trapped in a flooded gold mine in Laos’ Xaysomboun province for the past seven days.
Thailand has tightened its Ebola prevention measures by imposing mandatory 21-day quarantine requirements on all travellers arriving from Congo and Uganda, even if they show no symptoms of the disease, following worsening outbreaks in the two African countries.
Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya presided over the opening ceremony of the exhibition ‘La Mode en Majesté – Royal Thai Dress: From Tradition to Modernity’ at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris on May 25th.
Myanmar junta forces and their Karen allies, the Karen National Army, have renewed their dismantling of buildings in Shwe Kokko and KK Park, two scam hubs close to Thailand’s western border.
Two former senior members of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), Pol Gen Watcharaphol Prasarnratchakit and Supa Piyajitti, were sentenced to three years in prison today by the Criminal Court’s Corruption and Misconduct Cases Division over the luxury wristwatch case involving Gen Prawit Wongsuwan.
The recent fatal train-bus collision at a busy Bangkok intersection exposed safety failures that experts warn will trigger further tragedies unless urgently addressed.
The opposition Democrat Party is fighting to reclaim the Bangkok governorship, a stronghold it has won five times over the past half-century to dominate City Hall for a combined 15 years.
The Royal Gazette has officially published the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand’s (MRTA) new fares for the Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT) Chaloem Ratchamongkhon Line, commonly known as the ‘Blue Line’.
More than 25 million people have registered for the government's new economic stimulus scheme, ‘Thai Chuay Thai Plus’, in its first two days.
The Quad nations; Australia, India, Japan and the United States, have called for an immediate cessation of violence in Myanmar, saying the crisis is generating severe transnational crime and destabilising the broader Indo-Pacific region.
A special task force, known as “Phaya Sua” (the king of tigers), has been dispatched to Nakhon Nayok, Chanthaburi and Kanchanaburi to investigate the deaths of three elephants whose tusks had been removed.