Phuket International Airport has stepped up health surveillance of passengers arriving from India following reports of a Nipah virus outbreak there, while concerns have also emerged among residents and workers in Pattaya, a major tourist destination for Indian visitors.
More than a year after Thailand’s Marriage Equality Bill came into force, over 26,000 same-sex couples have legally registered their marriages nationwide, accounting for roughly 10% of all marriage registrations and marking a significant milestone in the country’s push for legal equality.
Thailand’s most aggressive fiscal stimulus came during the pandemic in 2020-2021, when the government was forced to borrow 1.5 trillion baht, the largest such programme in Thai history, to support an economy that had effectively ground to a halt.
Telenor’s sale of its shares in True Corporation may be based on the calculation that it is more difficult to achieve strong profit margins in the Thai telecom sector after 2026, says an analyst.
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Thailand’s customs-cleared exports rose 16.8% in December from a year earlier, the Commerce Ministry said on Friday, higher than analysts’ expectations.
SA KAEO – An 11-year-old Finnish girl has been rescued from a house in this northeastern province, after she sent an email to police in her home country saying she had been confined and tortured by two Finnish adults.
The new National Defence Industry Policy aims to reduce Malaysia’s reliance on foreign security and defence technology and bolster long-term domestic industrial capacity.