Bangkok (dpa) – Thailand's goal to be a manufacturing hub for small, fuel-efficient cars came closer to reality last week when two Japanese auto makers launched their new made-in-Thailand eco-car models.
On March 20 Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) (...)
Yangon (dpa) – The following is a chronology of the important political developments in Myanmar after the November 7, 2010 general election brought the pro-military Union Solidarity and Development Party to power, ending two decades of junta (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Come April 1, Thailand will join the ranks of South-East Asia's increasingly costly labor markets, with a hike the minimum wage that not everyone is convinced will be in the workers' best interests.
The ruling Pheu Thai party is (...)
Yangon (dpa) – President Thein Sein urged the people of Myanmar to help keep the April 1 by-elections “free, fair and clean” as the world watches the outcome, media reports said Sunday.
“This coming by-election is a first-ever election which will (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Suzuki Motor (Thailand) on Wednesday launched a new version of its Swift compact model under a Thai government program to promote local manufacture of fuel-efficient vehicles.
Suzuki Motor Corp's Executive Vice President Toshi (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Government troops and Kachin rebels in Myanmar have blocked humanitarian aid from reaching more than half of the 75,000 Kachin refugees who have fled fighting in their northern state, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
“The Burmese (...)
Yangon (dpa) – Myanmar granted amnesty Monday to a Karen rebel leader who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason.
Mahn Nyein Maung, a commander of the Karen National Union (KNU), had his sentence upheld by an appellate court (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – At least six of Thailand's leading garment manufacturers have plans to invest in Myanmar this year, news reports said Saturday.
“The election on April 1 will show that Burma will not move backwards,” Vallop Vitanakorn, an advisor (...)
BANGKOK (dpa) – A Thai taxi driver on Friday returned 13 million baht (426,230 dollars) of gold jewelry and ornaments that had been left in his cab by a forgetful couple.
Saksri Kaetsrigeow handed over a suitcase containing 8.1 kilograms of gold (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Bangkok police have delivered 100 babies in the capital's notorious traffic jams since special maternity training was introduced to the force 15 years ago, officials said Wednesday.
“One of our officers has delivered 30 babies, (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Thailand's navy on Tuesday acknowledged that it had dropped plans to purchase four second-hand German submarines for an estimated 7.6 billion baht (250,000 dollars), media reports said.
“The deadline for the purchase has passed (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – A Thai woman was arrested Monday on the Cambodian border with a kilogram of cocaine she had allegedly bought in Brazil.
Police said they found 950 grams of cocaine hidden around the waist of Ruangruang Pimpuangsa, 27, after (...)
Ruili, China (dpa) – Myanmar's government failed to sign a peace agreement with ethnic Kachin rebels over the weekend after three days of fruitless negotiations, officials said Monday.
Similar talks ended in failure in late January.
“The (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Haze caused by forest fires and land clearing has hit dangerous levels in northern Thailand, prompting authorities to plan evacuations of children and elderly, media reports said Sunday.
Air pollution in Mae Sai district of Chiang (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Muay Thai superstar Buakaw Por Pramuk has gone missing since early March, forcing his manager to cancel exhibition fights in Japan, France and Britain, news reports said Saturday.
Buakaw, who won the K1 Max World Championships in (...)
BANGKOK (dpa): A fire at a Bangkok hotel left one foreign tourist dead and 22 other people injured, police said Friday.
The fire broke out at 9:40 pm (1440 GMT) Thursday at the Grand Park Avenue Hotel near the city centre's Sukhumvit (...)
Bangkok: Thailand's Dusit Group hotel chain opened a new luxury property in the Maldives this month that promises it a much sunnier future than any of their hotels at home.
“Our hotel in the Maldives will get an average of 1,000 dollars a night, (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – A Thai court of Tuesday sentenced a political activist to seven and a half years in jail for violating the country's lese-majesty law.
The Bangkok Criminal Court initially sentenced Surachai Danwattananusorn, 71, Tuesday to 15 (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Thai courts have “systematically” denied bail in lese majesty cases involving supporters of the political movement behind the 2009-10 protests, Human Rights Watch said Saturday.
The New York-based group said bail was denied in 12 (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Thailand's parliament voted Saturday to pave the way for a rewrite of the military-backed 2007 constitution.
After a two-day debate, both houses voted to permit a redrafting of the charter written after the September 2006 coup (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – A fire destroyed more than 500 bamboo huts in a Karen refugee camp in Thailand near the border with Myanmar but no one died, Karen sources said Friday.
The fire in Umpiem Refugee Camp in Phop Phra district of Tak, 300 kilometers (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Myanmar has much to do to prepare for hosting the Association of South-East Asian Nations' (ASEAN) in 2014, the head of the group's secretariat said Friday.
“If Myanmar is going to carry out its chairmanship successfully, many (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – The discovery of 6 slaughtered elephants last month in two of Thailand's national parks has exposed a nasty secret about the country's ubiquitous elephant tourism industry.
Dutch national Edwin Wiek, founder of the Wildlife (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – HIV patients in Myanmar are unlikely to benefit from the increased foreign aid expected to flow the country as a reward for recent reforms, the medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Wednesday.
“There are all kinds (...)
Bangkok (dpa) – Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday approved the government's emergency spending plan in the wake of last year's floods, avoiding a potential crisis of confidence in the administration.
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (...)