A Thai court on Thursday ordered exiled former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay more than 10 billion baht ($304 million) to compensate for losses incurred by a money-losing rice farming subsidy program that her administration had implemented more than a decade ago. The Supreme Administrative Court partially reversed a 2021 court ruling that cleared […]
Read MoreA mudslide has killed at least 13 people, including a Russian couple, in a resort on the Thai island of Phuket. Thai authorities announced the end of the search for the missing on Sunday. Phuket Governor Sophon Suwannarat said heavy rains last week caused a mudslide near the Big Buddha in Phuket, a popular tourist […]
Read MoreThe figurehead of Thailand’s main opposition party has warned that court decisions this month may dissolve his party and potentially unseat the prime minister, risking fresh instability in the economy. Pita Limjaroenrat, who led the reformist Move Forward Party to an electoral victory last year but was thwarted from forming a government, said in an […]
Read MoreBANGKOK: Thailand is set to be Southeast Asia’s second country after Singapore to tax carbon emissions, a move that experts say will give the region greater impetus to adopt clean technologies that help slow global warming. Its carbon tax, expected to be introduced by next year, is not likely to make a dent on domestic […]
Read MoreThailand’s government will meet next week with commercial banks and state agencies to investigate transactions allegedly used for weapons purchases by Myanmar’s junta, and urge tighter scrutiny, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Thai bank representatives last week told a parliamentary committee they had followed regulations but lacked capacity to investigate all transactions that could […]
Read MoreVIENTIANE, May 31 (Xinhua) — Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs Maris Sangiampongsa and his delegation paid an official visit to Laos to strengthen bilateral friendship and cooperation. During the visit on Thursday, Maris held talks with Lao Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith, Lao News Agency reported on Friday. The two […]
Read MoreThailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who returned home last year after 15 years in exile, will go on trial next month on charges of insulting the monarchy. Prayuth Pecharakun, a spokesman for Thailand’s attorney general, said 74-year-old Thaksin would be summoned to appear in court on June 18 to answer charges under Thailand’s lese-majeste […]
Read MoreThe last train rolled across a steel bridge spanning the banks of the Golok River between Malaysia and Thailand 18 years ago. Now, the approaches at either end are sealed – rust and floodwaters have gnawed away at the rails alongside the decaying wooden sleepers. In Kelantan on the Malaysian side, speaking near the derelict, […]
Read More61 people died in Thailand due to intense heat and heat wave this year. The Ministry of Health of the country informed this information in a notification on Friday. The death rate in Thailand this summer is almost double that of last year. According to the Ministry of Health, 37 people died of heat stroke […]
Read MoreBangkok: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on Wednesday for Bangkok on a six-day official visit to Thailand at the invitation of her Thai counterpart Srettha Thavisin to strengthen the bilateral ties between the two countries. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the premier and her entourage, departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at […]
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