BANGKOK – Thailand’s finance minister has mounted a strong defence of a much-criticised official rice subsidy scheme, saying it can continue indefinitely even though its...
BANGKOK – Energy consumption in Thailand is set to jump by 75% over the coming two decades as the economy expands and a more affluent...
BANGKOK – Corruption threatens to turn Thailand into an investment “black hole” of Asean as it makes doing business in the country far too costly,...
BANGKOK – Thailand has decided to continue its costly rice program, but critics are questioning how the government will find the money to pay for...
BALI – Chinese President Xi Jinping and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra met here Sunday, pledging to further bilateral ties and China’s relations with...
BANGKOK – Tens of thousands of small factories across Thailand are battling for survival after the government raised the minimum daily wage. Instead of making...
BANGKOK – Thailand may need to raise new funds for a rice buying scheme in the crop year from October as it has fallen behind...
THAILAND – Driven to despair by a plague that has laid to waste young shrimps across east Asia, Suraphol Pratuangtham, a seafood farmer in southern Thailand,...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s parliament has approved a bill to borrow 2 trillion baht, or $64 billion, to finance seven-year infrastructure projects aimed at sustaining economic...
BANGKOK –Â The Board of Investment of Thailand (BOI) said its latest survey has found that a number of foreign businesses have eyed to expand...
BANGKOK – A Division of Special Investigation has announced an inquiry into a Bangkok-based fraudulent investment fund. The investigation followed a complaint by the Security...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s economy may not easily pull out of recession, data on factory output suggests, even as a retreat by foreign investors puts further...
CHIANG RAI- Several provinces in the North and Northeast still face heavy rain, whereas 5,000 rai of corn fields in Chiang Rai province have already...
BANGKOK– Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce will sell rice directly to state enterprises and the private sector abroad in a new attempt to release rice from the...
News spread worldwide that Thailand’s economy enters recession, sparking panic selling in Thai shares and depreciation in the dollar/baht exchange rate. BANGKOK – Thailand has...
BANGKOK – The Pheu Thai-led government pushed the controversial amnesty bill through its first reading in the House of Representatives on Thursday, raising the specter...
BANGKOK – Trading the virtual currency bitcoin is now considered illegal by the Bank of Thailand. That’s according to a blog post by Bitcoin Co. Ltd,...
BANGKOK– The Bank of Thailand joined the Finance Ministry and International Monetary Fund in cutting the country’s economic growth forecasts for this year, a reflection...
Smuggling of rice appears to be rampant. CHIANG RAI – Hidden in 18-wheeler trucks, carts and pick-up vans, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rice...
BANGKOK – Asia is fighting a new disease that has reduced shrimp output in Thailand as much as 40%, driving prices higher for Western restaurants...