Thai PM to end missing railway link to Cambodia. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra promised to complete a missing rail link with Cambodia to foster closer ties with the neighboring country. Ms Yingluck inspected the… Read More
Poll: Border dispute won’t end happily for Thailand. Most Thai people polled recently did not believe the Thai-Cambodian border dispute would end in a good way for the country and that the case… Read More
More than 23,800 tonnes of used commodities, worth about 1.32 billion Baht (~ 33 million EUR/44 million USD), were imported into Thailand between January and November 2012. Laem Chabang port in Chon Buri province, not far… Read More
The Thai police scrambled to defend their alcohol testing program after scientists reported that almost half of the Breathalyzers they tested gave erroneous readings or did not work at all. “The Breathalyzers used… Read More
Eight people, including four children, were killed in a fire that tore through a popular night market in the Cambodian tourist town of Siem Reap. The children, aged between nine and 14, were… Read More
Bangkok is preparing for the return of the ultra-right group, Pitak Siam (Protecting Siam). From the police force to members of the public, that name carries confusion. However this time the boundaries of… Read More
AEC pushed back 12 months – Visa, drug trafficking concerns linger. SOUTH-EAST Asian leaders have delayed launching their long-awaited ASEAN Economic Community by nearly a year. The AEC will be inaugurated on December… Read More
Small-scale pig raisers can’t compete on price with Thai imports and big local farms. Cambodians like pork. The average Cambodian consumes 9.29 kilogrammes of the meat a year and local farmers have long… Read More
Yesterday’s top world economic stories. Finance-public-debt-G7-EU-eurozone. PARIS: Finance ministers of the Group of Seven top developed countries held talks on the eurozone crisis and the threat it poses to the world economy, several… Read More
