German luxury automaker Mercedes-Benz (Thailand) is adopting a new pricing method by offering discounts on premium cars to lift domestic sales in the stagnant market.

Lt Gen Boonsin Padklang, commander of the Second Army Region, said his forces were not ready for a reopening of the border with Cambodia, joking that it may remain closed “until his retirement”.

Suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has submitted her defence to the Constitutional Court, in which she claimed the remarks she made in the leaked recording of her conversation with Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen were part of her negotiating technique — not an improper offer of favours.

Suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has not confirmed if she will be in court on Aug 21 to give evidence about her controversial phone call with Cambodian strongman Hun Sen, saying only that the date is her birthday.

Thailand’s top banks have started cutting lending rates, following the central bank’s move on Wednesday to reduce the benchmark policy rate to a two-year low of 1.50% to support a weakening economy hit by US tariffs.

Police on Thursday arrested a policeman-turned-influencer known as “Johnny the Enforcer”, his wife and three others on charges of building a hotel on public land in the northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani.