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The Industrial Works Department has asked the Department of Special Investigation to investigate the Xin Ker Yuan steel manufacturing company, after it allegedly refused to provide information about its distribution of rebar used in the construction of the collapsed State Audit Office building in Bangkok.
Thailand should diversify its export markets, lower trade barriers on US goods and pursue more free trade agreements (FTAs) to cushion the impacts of US tariffs, a leading Thai economist has urged.
Blaming political elements for distorting their controversial entertainment complex project, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said today that her government hopes to be able to convince all parties concerned of the real objective of the project during the upcoming eight-week parliamentary recess.
Washington, United States - US President Donald Trump abruptly paused tariffs on most countries Wednesday after admitting they made the markets nervous, but doubled down on a brutal trade war with superpower rival China.
Pig breeders, maize farmers and traders are crying foul over the government’s plan to allow the importation of US maize, pork and pork offal, as part of a bargain for lower tariffs on Thai products entering the US market.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has revealed that Bhumjaithai party leader has offered her an apology for comments made yesterday, in parliament, by the party's secretary-general, Chaichanok Chidchob, regarding the draft entertainment complex bill.
Despite the government's deferment of the first reading of the controversial draft entertainment complex bill, hundreds of anti-casino protesters continue their demonstrations, demanding that the bill be withdrawn.
The Constitutional Court has agreed, by 5:3 votes, to consider a motion for the court to rule on the duties and authorities of parliament in amending the country’s Constitution, in accordance with Section 210.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Thailand (CBCT) filed a petition today, with Deputy House Speaker Pichet Chuamuangphan and People’s party MP Teerajchai Phunthumas, representing the leader of the Opposition, calling for the withdrawal of the controversial casino bill, arguing that casinos would lead to numerous social problems.
The escalating trade war between China and the United States will result in the dumping of surplus Chinese products, especially consumer products, into the Thai market and this will seriously affect local manufacturers, according to M.L. Peekthong Thongyai, vice president of the Federation of Thai Industries, today.
Malaysia will dispatch officials to Washington to commence discussions on trade tariffs, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump imposed a hefty 24-percent levy on imports from the country.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - ASEAN must "act boldly" to accelerate regional economic integration as sweeping US tariffs leave much of the world caught in the middle of a devastating trade war, the bloc's chief said Wednesday.
The United States is alarmed by Thailand’s arrest of American lecturer Paul Chambers PhD for allegedly violating the country’s lèse majesté and the computer crime laws, according to US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.
A lone robber escaped with Bt9 million in gold necklaces and bracelets from a shop in downtown Hat Yai district before noon today.
A prominent American academic was detained on Tuesday and charged with insulting Thailand's monarchy, his lawyer told AFP, in a rare case of a foreign national falling foul of the kingdom's strict lese-majeste law.
China vowed on Tuesday to "fight to the end" against fresh tariffs of 50 percent threatened by US President Donald Trump, further aggravating a trade war that has already wiped trillions off global markets.
