BANGKOK – Keith Jones from Australia was scammed out of US$110,000 by a fraudulent investment firm. Not surprisingly, law enforcement initially had little interest in...
TRANG – Thailand risks becoming a failed state as a result of weak state mechanisms, conflicts between the legislative and judicial branches, and the...
BANGKOK – Thailand is part of the overall emerging markets bubble that I have been warning about in recent years, along with Indonesia, Malaysia and...
BANGKOK – Immigration officials in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday arrested a former Japanese pension fund manager, Yoshinobu Sakamoto who had been on the run for...
BANGKOK – Corruption threatens to turn Thailand into an investment “black hole” of Asean as it makes doing business in the country far too costly,...
CHIANG RAI -Thailand’s decision to expand subsidies for Rice and Rubber farmers to quiet protests is undermining efforts to control rising debt, even as governments...
CHIANG RAI – Drug Trafficking networks have smuggled tens of billions of baht out of Thailand, Labour Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung revealed at a workshop in Chiang...
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 – Laos has opened a Chinatown market in Bokeo province near the lawless Golden Triangle in a bid to draw more trade and...
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 – The search for lessons from lost economic decades has led from Japan to the U.S. to Europe. Now the spotlight turns to Thailand...
BANGKOK – Foreign companies have less than two years to benefit from Thailand’s current tax-break structure as the country is changing its incentives in a...
MYANMAR – Japan’s industrial investors stayed with Thailand through the army coups, the Bangkok-paralyzing massed Red-Shirt protests, and the mismanaged floods of 2011 that swamped...
BANGKOK—Thailand’s central bank cut its main policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday and said it is ready to implement capital controls...
Bank of Thailand Governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul maintained that the Monetary Policy Committee was under no pressure, despite the renewed attempt by Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong to...
YANGON – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has forgiven billions of dollars of Burmese debt and promised new aid. Analysts said despite China being its...
BANGKOK – Demand for food is set to surge within the region. Can productivity growth keep pace? Is it a Malthusianism catastrophe, or the stuff...
CHIANG RAI – Walk around a busy shopping mall anywhere in Thailand on a Saturday afternoon and you may think that this is a youthful...
BANGKOK – A Thai anti-graft commission says it will stop investigating asset concealment allegations against the prime minister after finding no grounds in the claims,...
BANGKOK – Thailand government is expanding its current transportation with grand plans 55 transportation projects worth 2.27 trillion baht (US$72 billion) which expect to be...