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Preparations have been underway for the opening of the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge linking Thailand’s Mae Sot district and Myanmar’s border city of Myawaddy on Tuesday. Therdkiat Chinsoranand, the mayor of Nakhon Mae Sot Municipality, on Sunday inspected the preparations. The construction of the bridge, ...

Hundreds of thousands of voters crowded into schools, parking lots and temples across Thailand on Sunday, eager to cast an early ballot a week before the country’s first election in eight years.Advanced voting is usually a tepid affair, but on Sunday excitement was high as ...

The Election Commission (EC) has promised the advance ballots cast on Sunday in a prelude to the general election will be in safe hands. EC deputy secretary-general Nat Laosisawakul said on Sunday that maximum security measures will be maintained as advance ballot papers are sent ...

The Government Public Relations Department (PRD) has cooperated with the Election Commission (EC) to organize an event called “The Path to Building Thailand, Election 2019” at Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University (BSRU) in Bangkok.The PRD Director-General, Lt. Gen. Sansern Kaewkamnerd, chaired the event to provide knowledge and ...

State welfare cardholders will have no negative records and no restriction to financial transactions, said Finance Ministry Spokesman Lavaron Sangsanit.He dismissed rumors circulated online alleging low financial credit scores and restricted financial services being provided for welfare cardholders.Keep reading ...

Thailand’s and Laos’ immigration units held talk in Udon Thani province on security measures and cooperation in immigration affairs.Thai Immigration Bureau Commissioner Pol Lt Gen Surachet Hakpal, and Laos’ Department of Immigration Director-General Col Saisaming Sivilay co-chaired a meeting on bilateral cooperation in immigration at ...

Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor, a 1.7 trillion baht (US$54.2 billion) development heavily reliant on Chinese backing, should emerge unscathed by the kingdom’s pre-election political turmoil, analysts say.Keep reading ...

Thailand was ranked 99 out of 180 countries and territories in the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which shows that despite some progress, many countries are still failing to make serious inroads against graft.The index ranks the countries and territories by their perceived levels of ...

Last November Russian President Vladimir Putin and Asean leaders took a historic decision to raise the Asean-Russia Dialogue Partnership to a strategic level.This year marks the start of that new cooperation, as Thailand takes the Asean helm. Thailand’s role as chair of Asean is crucial ...

After a series of false promises on a general election, Thailand is scheduled to hold one on March 24 after more than four years of military rule. Election commissioners met and agreed on the date after a royal decree calling for the election of a ...