Thailand looks set to enter this year’s rainy season next Monday. It will last through to mid-October and signals the end of the long hot summer, with a forecast for…
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Thailand looks set to enter this year’s rainy season next Monday. It will last through to mid-October and signals the end of the long hot summer, with a forecast for…
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Palang Pracharath’s Thawee Suraban filed complaints with Election Commission (EC) on Friday against two Democrats, Chuan Leekpai and Sathit Wongnongtaey, accusing them of defaming him during their election campaigns. Thawee’s…
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Forest rangers in Wang Nam Khiao district of the north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima are trying to track down a gaur, believed to have been injured when it was struck…
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Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) has set this Sunday as the new election day for Nakhon Pathom’s constituency 1. The original election in the constituency on May 14th was suspended after…
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Nakhon Ratchasima, in Thailand’s north-east, has become the world’s fourth place to gain UNESCO’s coveted “Triple Crown”, after the international organisation declared the Khorat Geopark a Global Geopark on Wednesday….
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Thai snooker star James Wattana, who is better known locally as “Tong Sitchoi”, has fallen victim to a call centre scam gang who allegedly cheated him out of about 3.2…
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Thailand’s Central Juvenile and Family Court ordered the release of 15-year-old “Yok” yesterday (Thursday) after 51 days of detention at Baan Pranee remand home in Nakhon Pathom province on a…
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Three former MPs of the Bhumjaithai party were sentenced to nine months in prison without suspension today (Thursday), after they were found guilty of allowing their colleagues to insert their…
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Thailand’s Constitutional Court voted 8:1 today (Thursday) to ditch the government’s executive decree delaying the enforcement of the Act of Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance until October…
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A senate committee set up a working panel on Thursday to study controversial issues related to Move Forward’s leader and potential prime minister Pita Limjaroenrat, including his anti-establishment position. The…
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Deputy Prime Minister Wisanu Krea-ngam has advised the Move Forward party to use “diplomatic means” to woo support, especially among senators, for approval for its leader Pita Limjaroenrat to become…
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Move Forward party’s Pita Limjaroenrat said on Thursday that his eight-party coalition is taking shape and whether more parties will join the coalition depends on the negotiating team he has…
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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has told election candidates in Bangkok that they must collect any campaign posters from pavements across the city by the end of tomorrow (Friday). Bangkok…
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A monk at a temple in Bang Pakong district of Thailand’s eastern province of Chachoengsao was arrested by police yesterday (Wednesday) and charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing dozens…
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Exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has made clear that the Pheu Thai party, his family and himself are loyal to and have respect for the monarchy and he hopes…
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The Move Forward Party’s victory in the general election has, for many, boosted hopes for the country’s future and the numbers issued to the party and its candidates for the…
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Police have seized assets and cash worth more than 7 billion baht from a major online gambling and money laundering network, allegedly linked to a suspect only identified as “Inspector…
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The general election yesterday (Sunday) is being regarded as having gone smoothly, with only 43 election law violations being recorded, Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittipraphat, the national police chief, said today…
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Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of Move Forward Party and tipped to be the next premier, took part in a convoy around Bangkok on Monday to thank the public for their overwhelming…
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A combination of the Thaksin factor, appeal of a youthful image and repellence of old-style politics has contributed to one of the biggest surprises in modern Thai political history. Signs…
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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha may consider ending his political career, United Thai Nation Party’s deputy leader Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said on Monday. Thanakorn said he personally believes this to be the…
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The Election Commission (EC) declared victory for Move Forward Party on Monday, after the ballot counting was completed. EC chairman Ittiporn Boonpracong said the Move Forward Party of Pita Limjaroenrat…
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Only hours after the Election Commission unofficially confirmed Move Forward Party’s victory in Sunday’s general election, its leader Pita Limjaroenrat has begun the process of forming a coalition government with…
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A legal challenge is waiting for Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of the Move Forward Party, who is tipped to be the country’s next prime minister after his party emerged as the…
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As no party is likely to win an absolute majority in the 500-member House of Representatives, a new coalition government will need to be formed and there are some potential…
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The Move Forward party surprisingly dethroned Pheu Thai as Thailand’s most popular party in yesterday’s general election, enjoying stunning victories in numerous constituencies formerly dominated by influential political families. In…
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Move Forward party candidate Rukchanok Srinork, has become a giant-killer in Bangkok’s Bang Bon electoral constituency, a political stronghold of the Yubamrung family, as she was beating Wan Yubamrung by…
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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Sunday night said he respects the election results which see Move Forward Party emerge as the top winner. Speaking briefly to journalists as he was…
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Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat declared a surprise election victory, beating the Pheu Thai party based on 95% of the vote counted by 1.45am on Monday. In his Tweet,…
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Jurin Laksanawisit has resigned as leader of the Democrat party to take responsibility for the party’s poor performance in the May 14th general election. In his Line message to Democrat…
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Encouraged by extremely-positive signs for his party in Sunday’s general election, Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat has reiterated that his party will go ahead and push for a reform…
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The Pheu Thai Party is still widely tipped to win more seats than any other party, but signs are that their ambition of surpassing the 300-seat mark is unlikely to…
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Election observers in Chon Buri province have protested about the officials counting the ballots, claiming that they did not punch holes in ballots once they were counted, as required by…
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According to early counts and the most recent polls, the Move Forward Party has surged into an early lead in the capital and looks poised to make an impressive sweep…
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Super Poll has predicted that the Pheu Thai party will emerge the winner of Sunday’s general election, taking a combined total of 133 constituency and party-list seats in the House,…
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Move Forward Party’s candidates are projected to win in almost all of Bangkok’s 33 constituencies, according to an opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA). NIDA released…
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Major foreign media outlets see the Thai general election as a major crossroads for a country familiar with military intervention in politics, but with a ballooning movement against the old…
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2pm – Thailand’s super star singer Thongchai McIntyre cast his ballot at a polling station in the Sukchai housing community in Phra Khanong district. He told reporters that he personally…
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There have been three reports of voters destroying their ballot sheets so far today (Sunday) in Thailand’s general election. They all claimed they had unintentionally violated the election law. In…
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Eager Thai voters queue up on Sunday in front of their polling stations, even before their official opening at 8am for the general election. They waited to exercise their voting…
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Violence continued in the southernmost provinces on Friday, after a bomb killed a ranger and seriously injured three others. The attack took place in Ban Ngokapo village in the Bannang…
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Today (Friday) is the last day the candidates vying for parliamentary seats in Sunday’s general election are allowed to campaign. Many major political parties have, therefore, organised major rallies around…
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Cyclone Mocha will not directly hit Thailand after it makes landfall in Myanmar this Sunday, but it will bring rain from today through Monday, with isolated heavy downfalls in some…
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Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Narongpan Jitkaewtae has requested that the media to stop asking him about the possibility of another coup after the May 14th general election and to stop reporting…
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Three Thai boxers beat their rivals from Myanmar and Singapore to reach the final round of the SEA Games boxing competition in Cambodia today (Wednesday). Thanarat Saengphet, bronze medallist in…
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The owner and the helmsman of the speed boat from which actress Nida Patcharaveerapong, aka “Tangmo”, fell to her death in the Chao Phraya River, were given suspended jail terms…
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The Criminal Court sentenced a man and a woman to 12,640 years in prison each on Wednesday, after finding them guilty of operating a Ponzi scheme. The sentences were based…
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Warnings that voters should not use pens provided in voting booths, because the ink they contain will “disappear” allowing ballots to be re-marked, was dismissed as fake news by Thailand’s…
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The Election Commission (EC) is expected to be able to announce unofficial results at about 10pm on May 14th, said Suranee Pontawee, deputy secretary-general of the EC, today (Wednesday). She…
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Police are now focusing their cyanide poisoning investigation on the financial transactions in the bank accounts of serial murder suspect Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, with the amount of money involved totalling about…
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Marigold flowers have been in great demand in the months leading up to the general election as politicians have been racing to meet people across the country in an attempt…
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Thailand’s consumption of electricity surged to a new record high of 34,826.50 megawatts at 9.41pm on Saturday May 6th, breaking the previous record of 33,177.30 megawatts, set at 2.30pm on…
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Thailand’s Industrial Works Department has promised to tighten regulations, making it compulsory for importers of cyanide to report to the authorities every sale of the lethal chemical, to prevent it…
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Over one million people have signed an online campaign, launched by the change.org website, demanding the ouster of Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) over a series of problems and errors allegedly…
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Thailand is scheduled to host a retreat of BIMSTEC foreign ministers in July, to reinvigorate the 25-year-old intergovernmental organisation, An informed source told Thai PBS World that Thailand, the current…
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Thailand’s Revenue Department has no intention of imposing a departure tax on Thai nationals and permanent foreign residents travelling out of Thailand, as has been widely misunderstood. Revenue Department Deputy…
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The poor quality of Thai education has been a major national issue for decades. Many people in the education sector have attempted reform, by introducing a competency-based curriculum in the…
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The Pheu Thai party is expected to win 139 House seats, with a 5% margin of error, in the May 14th general election, but no landslide, according to Super Poll….
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Actress Preechaya Pongthananikorn has offered a public apology for ordering cyanide online to poison snakes and monitor lizards in the backyard of her house, not knowing that it is illegal…
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Combining resources, materials and innovative products from Russia and Thailand can boost industrial competitiveness, according to H.E. Evgeny Tomikhin, the Russian ambassador to Thailand. Speaking at a “meet the ambassador”…
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Many people have shown up since Songkran to get COVID-19 vaccine booster doses, provided by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said today (Friday). At some vaccination…
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Police will summon an actress for questioning next Monday, after it was discovered that she had bought cyanide from the same lot as that obtained by a serial murder suspect….
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A former Special Forces trooper was arrested by police after they found gun accessories and spare parts in his possession during a raid on his house in Muang district of…
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Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will not attend the ASEAN-related summit next week, according to an informed source. The source said that Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai…
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Former governor of Yala province, Thira Minthrasak, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison without suspension, after being found guilty of malfeasance by the Criminal Court for Corruption and…
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Pheu Thai Party’s prime ministerial candidate, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, on Wednesday tried to play down remarks by her father, former prime minister Thaksin, that he is yearning to end his self-exile…
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The former husband of serial murder suspect Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn surrendered to police in Nakhon Pathom province today (Wednesday), to acknowledge charges of embezzlement, fraud and falsification of documents. Pol Gen…
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Corals around Tachai Island, in the Similan Islands Nation Park off the southern province of Phang-nga, are bleaching due to the rising temperature of the sea water. Paisan Boonsawat, chief…
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Thailand has decided to implement a new PM2.5 standard level, reduced from 50 microns (microgram/cubic metre) to 37.5 microns, and a new air quality index (AQI) standard, reduced from 91…
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Residues of cyanide have been found in tea bags obtained from the car of Thai serial murder suspect “Sararat”, according to police, quoting a toxicology expert. Dr. Weerachai Phutdhawong, a…
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The Thailand Development Research Institute has criticised the Election Commission for its failure to check whether populist campaign policies, promised by political parties in their election manifestos, are worth the…
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Election ballots were dispatched, under tight police security, from Thailand Post Company’s head office in Bangkok today (Monday) to 400 electoral constituencies across the country, ahead of advance voting this…
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42.4% of working Thai people, aged from 15 years and up, are overweight and at risk of developing non-communicable diseases, because of their lifestyle involves frequent consumption of fast food,…
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Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property has registered the Geographical Indication (GI) of the Nong Bua Daeng hom thong banana, for its unique texture due to the potassium-rich soil in Nong…
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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha praised Thailand’s workers as being vital in the development of the country and, as such, it is necessary that their quality of life be improved and…
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Thai police rounded up 94 gamblers, mostly Indians, at an illegal casino set up in the conference hall of a hotel in the eastern province of Chon Buri on Sunday…
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Pheu Thai party’s prime ministerial candidate, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, gave birth to her second child this morning (Monday), and said that she will return to the campaign trail as soon as…
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Today (Friday), Thailand’s Election Commission disclosed the maximum amount that each constituency candidate and each party can spend during pre-election campaigning. Campaign spending is divided into two types. Firstly, if…
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Twelve of the first group of 78 Thais evacuated from Sudan, who arrived in Bangkok Thursday night, have been diagnosed with a respiratory disease, with one is suffering from stress…
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The Election Commission (EC) has rejected the government’s proposal to use about 11 billion baht of a special budget to ease household electricity charges, on the grounds that the proposal…
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A complaint was lodged with the Office of the Ombudsman today (Friday) by Sonthiya Sawasdee, a political activist, asking the Constitutional Court to investigate Pheu Thai party’s campaign promise to…
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Traces of cyanide have been found in the car of the suspect in a series of cyanide poisonings and traces of an antidote were found in a parcel addressed to…
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Thai students, who arrived in Bangkok from Sudan via Saudi Arabia Thursday night, said that they took advantage of the 72-hour ceasefire in Khartoum to escape to the Port of…
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Looking for a fun and exciting way to celebrate World Book Day? Look no further than the Sant Jordi Day celebration, brought to you by the Mesa312 cultural lab, in…
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The influx of African migrants to Thailand has increased over the years. Kasit Piromya, the former Foreign Minister of Thailand, stressed the need to convey knowledge and understanding between Thai…
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Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat issued a statement today (Thursday) via Facebook to defend himself against allegations that he lied about being detained by military officials at Bangkok’s military…
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The Election Commission’s Office has come up with a method for sharing remaining party-list seats, after the distribution of 100 party-list seats based on the number of party-list votes received…
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Advance general election voting for Thais living overseas is scheduled to begin tomorrow (Tuesday) at Thai embassies and consular offices, Election Commission (EC) Secretary-General Sawaeng Boonmee said today. The advance…
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Thailand’s Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases is to hold its first hearing in the murder case of ethnic Karen human rights activist Porlajee Rakchongcharoen, aka “Billy”, on Monday….
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COVID-19 infections in Bangkok have doubled to about 700 cases a day since the Songkran festival, with the number of actual infections possibly surpassing 1,000 cases day, including those not…
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Thailand’s Industrial Sentiment Index (TISI) was at its highest for a decade in March, boosted by a rebound in domestic demand, production increases and improved performance, with the exception of…
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Several houses were damaged and trees and power poles felled by strong winds and hailstorms which struck Mae Rim and Samoeng districts of Chiang Mai yesterday (Saturday). Widespread blackouts were…
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The Thai Foreign Ministry has been coordinating with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United States over the use of their airbases, such as the US airbase in Djibouti, in case…
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Incumbent Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has expressed confidence that his United Thai Nation Party will win enough seats in the upcoming election for him to be nominated as the…
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The hot weather, currently affecting many parts of Thailand, is being caused by persistent low pressure cell, according to Somkuan Tonjan, head of the Central Weather Forecast Sub-division of the…
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Striking a right balance in its relationship with the US and China whose ongoing geopolitical rivalry is rattling the world will be a major policy challenge for Thailand’s new administration,…
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Kong Salak Plus CEO Panthawat Nakvisut was among 17 suspects indicted today (Friday) by public prosecutors on charges of operating an online gambling platform and money laundering. Pongsathorn Inamnuay, director…
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The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) is blaming the increase in electricity bills for many households in Bangkok on the hot weather, requiring greater use of air-conditioners. Government Spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri…
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Bangkok police have assured the public that they will investigate the shooting death of a well-known Thai Internet idol and her boyfriend in a straightforward and fair manner, without outside…
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Thailand’s pig farmers have proposed that a joint working committee, between the government and the private sector, be urgently established to deal with the widespread smuggling of pork into the…
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