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 – 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...
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 – 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...
BANGKOK – Asia is fighting a new disease that has reduced shrimp output in Thailand as much as 40%, driving prices higher for Western restaurants...
BEIJING – Asian powers are outpacing the United States to become the biggest spenders on defense by 2021 and are fuelling an “explosion” in the...
BANGKOK – Thailand’s baht fell to a five-month low after foreign funds pulled money from local assets amid speculation the government will take steps to...
BANGKOK — Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating. The United Nations’...
BANGKOK – Demand for food is set to surge within the region. Can productivity growth keep pace? Is it a Malthusianism catastrophe, or the stuff...
BANGKOK – As well as dousing each other liberally with water during the recent Songkran festival to mark the country’s traditional New Year’s Day holiday,...
SUPHAN BURI – Thailand is set to sell 500,000 metric tons of rice on world markets at a loss as it scrambles to offload a...
BEIJING – Asia’s Military spending overtook Europe’s for the first time last year, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said on Thursday, reflecting China’s...
CHIANGRAI – Thai farmers vowed on Monday to stage a major protest after the government signaled it was weighing a plan to cut rice intervention...
BANGKOK – The day after PepsiCo Inc’s bottling deal in Thailand expired, its partner of 59 years launched its own soft drink that has knocked...
BANGKOK – The Royal Thai Police in Chumphon Province for foiling a cross border elephant tusk smuggling operation, and for arresting a main culprit and...
BANGKOK – Anti-Corruption Network (ACN) this year has become a key organization that has shed unprecedented light on corruption in Thailand. This group, comprising...