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The Department of Business Development (DBD) is investigating the operations of three food delivery applications that serve Chinese customers to determine whether they comply with Thai laws.

The Bank of Thailand (BoT) is widely expected to leave its benchmark policy rate unchanged at 1% at Wednesday’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, with research houses noting that subdued inflationary pressures and heightened external uncertainties warrant a steady stance.

Thai police arrested about 30,000 scammers, including gang leaders, impounded about 24 billion baht of their assets and took legal action against 1,450 proxy companies over the past nine months.

WASHINGTON — Alan Greenspan, the longtime United States Federal Reserve (Fed) chief who presided over an unprecedented period of American economic expansion but was later faulted for failing to rein in markets ahead of the 2008 global financial crisis, has died.

BURGENSTOCK — United States Vice President JD Vance declared Monday that a “very good foundation” had been laid for negotiations towards a final deal with Iran, after a marathon session of direct talks at a mountain-top resort Switzerland.

BUERGENSTOCK, Switzerland/DUBAI – The first round of talks between ​high-ranking US and Iranian officials in Switzerland ended on Monday, mediators said, after a tense opening marked by ‌Tehran’s announcement it had again closed the Strait of Hormuz and US President Donald Trump repeating his threats to resume attacks on Iran.

No matter how stifling the heat, every night Sanong Suepthai endures it — sleeping under two layers of blankets propped up by a pillow placed on her chest, in a house with no air conditioning.

Wellness tourism has emerged as a pillar of Thai tourism in recent years as intense global competition nudged the country to seek new mechanisms to attract high-quality travel markets.