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Thailand is reeling from one of its largest monk scandals in history. While many Buddhists worry about the national religion’s deteriorating state, others maintain a different view: “Whatever happens is always for the good.”
The government will set aside about 200 billion baht in soft loans for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to cushion the impacts of new tariffs on import of Thai goods to the US market.
Interior Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has given the director-general of the Land Department seven days to explain why he has not complied with a court order to reclaim about 800 hectares of State Railway of Thailand (SRT) land, at Khao Kradong in Muang district of Buri Ram, from alleged trespassers, among them the Chidchob family.
The Thai Cybercrime Investigation Division submitted its investigative findings today, in the case of the leaked phone call between Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Cambodian Senate Speaker Hun Sen to the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG).
Thai PBS World has explored the significance of the Buddha’s first sermon in the modern context. Despite being over two millennia old, its message, of inner transformation and sustainable development, remains strikingly relevant.
Bhumjaithai Party Leader Anutin Charnvirakul reiterated today that his party does not agree with the entertainment complex project, a flagship policy of the ruling Pheu Thai party, because it is just a front for casinos and the legalisation of online gambling.
Thailand would need to overhaul its negotiation strategy on reciprocal tariffs with the Donald Trump administration, following a shock 36 per cent import tax levied by Washington effective from August, experts said.
Suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s legal team may seek an extension of the defence filing deadline, set by the Constitutional Court, regarding an accusation that she had committed gross ethical misconduct in her conversation with Cambodia’s Hun Sen, according to Phumtham Wechayachai today.
The Thai army’s Suranaree Task Force has detained a former paramilitary ranger for allegedly assaulting a Cambodian military officer at Ta Muen Temple in Thailand’s Surin province, army spokesman Maj Gen Winthai Suvaree said today.
Thailand is considering offering zero tariffs on more U.S. imports, the finance minister said on Monday.
The Netherlands and Thailand, both of which face increasing seasonal flooding, are boosting cooperation to mitigate flood risks, Dutch Ambassador Remco van Wijngaarden has said.
Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has been discharged from hospital, his office said on Sunday, after being admitted for fatigue following a picnic celebration for his 100th birthday.
In the continuing onslaught on his former longtime ally, Thaksin Shinawatra, Cambodia’s strongman Hun Sen claims that Thaksin had sought advice and input concerning Thai political affairs nearly every day in the past two decades.
The vow of celibacy that every Thai monk makes upon entering the Sangha is founded on the Buddha's observation over 2,500 years ago that sexual attachments block the path to enlightenment. Yet not all monks who have pledged to follow this path manage to resist sexual temptation to the end.
The Sangha Supreme Council, the governing body of the Buddhist order, has agreed to cooperate fully with the police in their investigations of sex scandals, in which over 20 senior monks are allegedly implicated, according to Pol Maj-Gen Charoonkiat Pankaew, deputy commissioner of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB).
A recent opinion poll indicates that a majority of respondents believe that suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra should resign, with Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, a prime ministerial candidate from the United Thai Nation Party, topping the list of preferred successors.
