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CHIANG RAI: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and major financiers on Thursday launched a facility to spur more than US$1 billion (31.78 billion baht) in green infrastructure investments across Southeast Asia.The facility offers loans and technical assistance for sovereign ...

Thailand sits at the crossroads of Southeast Asia and is a gateway to other burgeoning markets like China and India. The Land of Smiles is well aware of this, and is growing its transport links to drive its grand ambition: to be the region’s digital ...

TAK: An ambitious plan to turn the border village of Kokko in Myanmar into a new Chinatown has sparked calls for the Thai government to speed up making Tak a fully fledged special economic zone (SEZ). The huge investments from Chinese businessmen in Kokko, opposite ...

Residents in many parts of the upper northern Thailand continued to suffer dangerous levels of air pollution on Thursday, while officials and volunteers battled forest fires.Keep reading ...

All sectors are preparing to take care of and facilitate everyone who will return to their hometown to celebrate the Songkran festival while the cabinet has acknowledged three measures to promote the Thai traditional Songkran festival.Keep reading ...

The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) marked its third anniversary last week with the announcement that China’s trade with the five Mekong member countries – Cambodia, Lao, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam – has reached over US$260 billion for the period, highlighting the overarching role China plays in ...

The government’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) project, which is aimed at attracting technological and innovative investments by targeted industries, is receiving increasing interest from foreign investors.Keep watching ...

Thailand is ready to cooperate with ASEAN to push regional cooperation on border management to ensure security in a sustainable and concrete manner. Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha hopes this year’s High Level Regional Conference will serve as a forum for members to exchange ideas, ...

Beyond the harm done to human health by the North’s smouldering blanket of forest fires, concern has arisen for wildlife and rare plants on the slopes of Doi Luang Chiang Dao in Chiang Mai. The mountain is protected as the only locale in Thailand where “sub-alpine ...

The global economic slowdown, the prolonged US-China trade war, lack of clarity on Britain’s exit from the EU and trade sanctions from other countries have led to Thai exports failing to achieve their target in the first quarter of the year, the Thai National Shippers’ ...