BANGKOK – Thailand is part of the overall emerging markets bubble that I have been warning about in recent years, along with Indonesia, Malaysia and...
SANGKHLA BURI – When they were children, Johnny and Luther Htoo were bulletproof and invulnerable to landmines – or so went the story that briefly...
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...
Chiang Rai Unitd will face Ratchaburi F.C. on Sunday 20th October. The games kick off at 18:30 in the United Stadium. In recent result, Chaing...
CHIANG RAI – You could say it was an excursion to see how the other half lives. You know the “haves” of this world as...
BANGKOK – Thailand has decided to continue its costly rice program, but critics are questioning how the government will find the money to pay for...
CHIANG RAI – Every year, hundreds of thousands of pets are snatched in Thailand, then smuggled into Vietnam, destined for Hanoi’s top restaurants and street stalls. Demand for...
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 – An incentive program for first-time car buyers in Thailand has backfired with more than 100,000 indebted consumers defaulting, leaving the big global manufacturers...
TRAD– Thai Police have seized more than a dozen unregistered and illegally registered elephants from camps in three provinces in the south of Thailand as...
GUADALAJARA – Thomas Frank White, a convicted pedophile from San Francisco, died at the age of 78 at a Puerto Vallarta hospital on Tuesday morning. White was serving...
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...
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...
NEW YORK– Sandy Winick, from Stoney Creek Ontario Canada, is alleged to have “Masterminded” a plot that bilked $140 Million from investors in Asia, Europe...
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 – Thai rice traders have offered Bt20 million in compensation for any consumer killed by methyl bromide in packaged rice – an attempt to...
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...