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Bangkok girds for big rains
Published on 01/06/2025
» As Thailand officially enters the 2025 monsoon season, concerns about prolonged heavy rainfall and potential flooding are rising, particularly in Bangkok.
Bangkok tops the world for remote work, fast internet and stunning scenery
Online Reporters, Published on 31/05/2025
» Bangkok has been named the world’s best city for remote work for digital nomads in a recent ranking by experts at QR Code Generator, which specialises in transforming interaction through quick response (QR) technology.
Pride seen as 'economic opportunity'
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 31/05/2025
» While the recently passed Marriage Equality Bill marks a historic milestone for Thailand's LGBTQ+ community, some experts say the country must go further by positioning this group in the upcoming Pride Month not just as symbols of progress but as drivers of economic growth.
Cable car divide
News, Editorial, Published on 31/05/2025
» With its digital cash wallet scaled back and its casino entertainment policy under fire, the Pheu Thai Party has been in search of a good news story, and so in the past week, it touted the building of a cable car in Loei province's Phu Kradueng National Park.
New dugong duo spotted in Thailand's Krabi province
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 30/05/2025
» KRABI - Park officials have reported the sighting of two new dugongs and a group of green turtles near Ao Nam Mao in Muang district of this southern Thai province, suggesting improving marine biodiversity.
Bangkok housing developer index for Q1 tallies 4th-lowest level ever
Business, Kanana Katharangsiporn, Published on 30/05/2025
» The sentiment index for Greater Bangkok housing developers in the first quarter of 2025 fell to the fourth-lowest level ever, behind previous troughs recorded in the fourth quarter of 2011 during severe floods, the global financial crisis in 2008, and the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
South Korea is facing a triple challenge
Oped, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 30/05/2025
» Few countries have transformed themselves as dramatically as South Korea has over the last half-century. A poor, authoritarian country with annual per capita income of less than US$400 (13,000 baht) has become a vibrant and prosperous democracy, with direct presidential elections, peaceful transfers of power, and a per capita income of more than $33,000.
Thailand's false sense of tariff security
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 30/05/2025
» Thailand is in deeper trouble among its peer group in view of United States President Donald Trump's tariff offensive. Yet senior Thai officials appear nonchalant, complacent and smug. They seem to think Thailand will come out of the US tariff war in good shape as the Trump administration will prove unable to go through with its hefty import duties. The domestic political battle between the US executive and judicial branch -- with the Court of International Trade's injunction this week on most of the Trump tariffs -- further adds to the absurd sense of security and false perception of Thailand's importance by Thai officials.
Collapsing glacier buries Swiss village
Published on 29/05/2025
» WILER, Switzerland - The army was deployed and rescue specialists were airlifted in to search for a man still missing on Thursday after a huge chunk of a glacier crashed down a mountain in Switzerland, burying much of a picturesque Swiss Alpine village.