U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published an article titled “America’s Pacific Century” in the latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine, in which she has...
Thai Baht Rises on Outlook for Growth of Asian Economies. Thailand’s baht rose, approaching a three-week high, after international investors boosted holdings of local assets....
Thai workers and employers agreed to a government proposal to boost the minimum wage, meeting a campaign pledge by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra as floods...
Myanmar’s nominal civilian government has suspended a controversial $3.6 billion hydroelectric power project which has faced objections from various social strata nationwide, according to the...
CHIANGRAI Times – The recent car bombs in Su-ngai Kolok district of Narathiwat province have prompted ten countries to warn their citizens against traveling to...
Capital inflows into Thailand may have a “vigorous” return after a selloff in the nation’s stocks, and the government is prepared to help control such...
An Abac Poll revealed that 64% of Thais think corruption is acceptable if the country or themselves benefit in some way from the corrupt schemes. Of...
At the school that I was teaching at in northern Korat, the majority of English teachers could read to an acceptable level, but the same...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – The value of foreign golf tourism to Thailand may reach 60 billion baht or $US2 billion in 2012 for the first time....
BANGKOK—Global companies are growing increasingly worried that Thailand’s recent clampdown on Internet traffic might drag down the country’s economic potential and make it more difficult...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Rapid economic growth, increased mortgage lending and little fear of a property bubble in the Thai property market is having a very...
Chiranuch Premchaiporn looks an unlikely threat to national security. Yet the diminutive editor of Thailand’s popular Prachatai news website sat in a Bangkok court last...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thaksin Shinawatra will visit Cambodia on Friday to attend a conference on the Asian economy – not to negotiate petroleum resources in...
-CHIANGRAI TIMES – Cambodia’s economy can grow as much as 8.7 percent this year, its strongest in a decade, propelled by a resurgence in its...
CHIANGRAI TIMES _ The issue was raised for discussion during a meeting of Ms. Annette Dixon, a representative from the World Bank, and Finance Minister Thirachai...
CHIANG RAI TIMES – Environmental activists say Chinese firms are pushing ahead with construction of the controversial Myitsone dam even though fighting is going on...
As debate goes on about whether Thailand should have its first nuclear power plant, Korea Electricity Power Corporation (Kepco) warns that any such development will...
Today the Tourism Authority of Thailand jointly announced with partner, Google Thailand, the launch of a new tourism promotion initiative featuring Google Maps with Street...
From riding elephants to working in fields, touring temples to visiting schools, Amanda Woodard sees Thailand and Cambodia through fresh eyes – those of her...
Twenty-one years ago this summer, a 59-year-old financial adviser from Florida named Jack Gargan began running full-page ads in newspapers around the country decrying a...