BANGKOK – Thailand produces about 20-21 million tonnes (mt) of milled rice and India processes 23-24 mt of sugar annually. The largest single denominator between...
BONTOC, Philippines – Seventeen people, including two foreigners, were killed while 31 others were injured when a bus plunged into a 150-meter-deep ravine in Bontoc,...
BANGKOK — South Korea is looking to sell more weapons systems, including warships and aircraft, to Thailand, which is pushing to modernize its armed forces...
BANGKOK – Thailand is part of the overall emerging markets bubble that I have been warning about in recent years, along with Indonesia, Malaysia and...
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...
YOKOSUKA — The former captain of the destroyer USS Mustin, a Navy special agent and a Singapore-based defense contractor have been arrested in connection with an...
CHIANG RAI – Narcotics suppression police in Chiang Rai have arrested three men in possession of one million methamphetamine pills in Mae Fa Luang district. Pol...
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 DELHI– In one of the worst-ever naval disasters, India lost a submarine and 18 of its sailors who were on board the Russia-made vessel...
CHON BURI – Police on Sunday arrested Tasaphol Haekla who shot dead his bride-to-be and her mother in cold blood at a car modification shop...
THAILAND SOUTH – Strung along the coast of southern Thailand is a line of small fishing towns, nestled between the rugged beauty of the Tanaosri...
CHIANG RAI – The waters of the mighty Mekong have sustained generations of families but nowadays its fishermen often find their nets empty and...
BANGKOK – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul says the country must tighten safety and security for foreigners who explore the country by...
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 – 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 — Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday became the first woman to head the kingdom’s defense ministry in a cabinet reshuffle that gives her...
ROME – A friend of James Gandolfini says the actor was discovered by a family member after he suffered an apparent heart attack in his hotel...
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 – The greater Mekong region in Southeast Asia could lose nearly a third of its forests within the next two decades if governments...
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,...