Former ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan has said that the universally low fluency in English of Thais in general and Thai students in particular is one result of the "abnormally low"…
Floods after a heavier-than-usual monsoon season have flooded 22 provinces in Thailand and caused evacuations in nine, affecting 600,000 people and killing four so far. Flood water from the North…
Forget paddy farming or raising pigs, a new type of resource is available in the village of Khon Kaen, Thailand; crickets (and they go good with beer, supposedly). It’s the…
Take a stroll back in the year 2551 (that’s 2008 on the Western calendar) where it’s hard not to see the bargains at the local Tesco-Lotus supermarket in Nonthaburi, Thailand….
Some of the older generation might remember Kodak, or Eastman Kodak Company, once the leader on the analog photographic market in the 1970s and 1980s that, however, completely missed out…
Latest political and economic developments in Thailand have given many observers reason to believe that the country has crossed the line to being a banana republic. As it is known,…
Thailand’s national carrier Thai Airways after the crash landing of an Airbus A330-300 on September 9 at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport has tried to protect its image by blackening out the…
Thailand’s government said on September 6 that it had reached a deal with most rubber farmers in the country’s south demanding greater state support for prices, signalling a breakthrough in…
When Ex-UK Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Bangkok on September 1 to attend a conference on peace and reconciliation in the Thai capital organised by the government the following…
A protesting rubber farmer was killed and another seriously wounded when armed men opened fire at protesting rubber farmers on September 1 in Thailand’s southern Nakhon Si Thammarat district. The…
