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No deal yet on EU climate targets as COP30 looms
AFP, Published on 05/11/2025
» BRUSSELS — The European Union's (EU) member states have not yet reached an agreement on key emissions targets before the United Nations' (UN) COP30 summit in Brazil, and ministers will meet again on Wednesday to thrash out a deal, according to Brussels officials.
Trees, targets and trillions: what's on the agenda at COP30?
AFP, Published on 04/11/2025
» PARIS - This year's United Nations (UN) climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda?
PM Anutin vows prudence to avoid rating cut
Published on 25/09/2025
» Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul says he will look to build confidence in Thailand’s economy following an outlook downgrade by Fitch Ratings.
Fitch cuts Thailand’s outlook to negative
Published on 24/09/2025
» Fitch Ratings has downgraded Thailand’s credit rating outlook to negative from stable, citing rising risks to public finances from prolonged political uncertainty and weakening growth prospects.
PM's crisis and Thai political directions
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 27/06/2025
» What began just a month ago as a minor border dispute with Cambodia has spiralled into an existential political crisis in Thailand. In what she understood to be a private phone conversation with Cambodia's former prime minister and Senate President, Hun Sen, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra compromised her premiership and undermined Thai national interests. While she tries to ride out the storm, her tenure appears wobbly and unworkable. What comes next will likely proceed in one of three directions revolving around the Thai parliamentary processes, each with its own scenarios and considerations.
US presses NATO to seal defence spending deal
AFP, Published on 05/06/2025
» BRUSSELS - US defence chief Pete Hegseth on Thursday pushed NATO to agree a deal on increasing military spending that could satisfy President Donald Trump at a summit this month.
Three-airport rail link work ‘could start in April’
Post Reporters, Published on 17/01/2025
» Work on the long-delayed three-airport rail link could begin in April if amendments to the contract with the consortium developing it are approved, according to the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Policy Committee.
Thailand to increase emission reduction targets
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 20/11/2024
» Thailand will aim to further reduce its emissions of harmful gases because a follow-up on the 2015 Paris climate agreement shows the country’s efforts are falling short of its target to help control the rising temperature of the planet, according to Chalermchai Sri-on, the minister of Natural Resources and Environment.
Hopes dim for new constitution before 2027
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 31/10/2024
» A new constitution is unlikely to be completed before the government’s term ends in less than three years, meaning it will not be in place by the next general election, says the secretary of the joint House-Senate panel on the charter referendum bill.
Intractable issues await Asean ministers
Published on 24/07/2024
» Asean foreign ministers gathered in Laos on Wednesday as the group seeks to advance a stalled bid to resolve a crisis in Myanmar and cool tensions in the South China Sea, days ahead of a gathering of top diplomats from the world’s biggest powers.