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WORLD

Asia airlines hike fares, eye groundings on fuel crunch risk

Bloomberg News, Published on 10/03/2026

» SINGAPORE — Airlines in Asia are raising ticket prices and mapping out contingency plans that include grounding planes as the escalating Middle East conflict threatens to trigger the worst oil shock since the 1970s.

BUSINESS

Amazon Web Services eyes Thailand as future AI hub

Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 10/03/2026

» Cloud service provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) Thailand has positioned its local cloud region as a future artificial intelligence (AI) hub, targeting enterprises' rising demand for highly complex, independent "frontier AI agents".

WORLD

Water emerges as a dangerous new war target

AFP, Published on 09/03/2026

» PARIS - Attacks on water systems are uncommon in wartime, but they have appeared in the war in the Middle East with strikes on desalination plants -- critical infrastructure for millions of people in the arid region.

WORLD

Beijing signals high hopes for South China Sea 'golden rules' by end of year

Published on 09/03/2026

» China has signalled strong optimism for finalising negotiations with neighbouring Asian countries to seal a new institutional framework on contested South China Sea waterways.

OPINION

It's never been more important to strengthen ties

Oped, Published on 09/03/2026

» Australia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) face a defining moment. Intensifying great-power competition, climate crises and economic fragmentation are reshaping the Indo-Pacific, raising urgent questions about how the two sides can build a truly resilient partnership.

THAILAND

Easing the shock of war

Published on 08/03/2026

» The escalating conflict in the Middle East, particularly the looming threat of a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, is casting a long shadow over the economy.

WORLD

Philippines shortens work week to save energy

Published on 07/03/2026

» Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has approved a four-day work week for government offices starting on Monday in the country’s bid to save on energy as tensions in the Middle East push fuel costs higher.

BUSINESS

Asian equities endure worst week since March 2020

Business, Published on 07/03/2026

» RECAP: Asian equity markets steadied on the final trading day of a volatile week, even as the Mideast conflict raged on. With a 6.4% decline, the MSCI Asia Pacific Index had its worst week since March 2020.

LIFE

Constant discipline

Life, Published on 07/03/2026

» For many in Bangkok, the voice arrived long before the performer. Long before Lea Salonga appeared on local concert stages, her voice had already travelled from Broadway theatres and West End productions into living rooms around the world -- and for many listeners, into childhood through the Disney heroines of Aladdin and Mulan.

THAILAND

Two Thai drug smugglers get lengthy jail terms in Indonesia

Published on 06/03/2026

» BATAM, Indonesia - An Indonesian court ​on Friday sentenced one Thai national to life in ​prison and another to 17 ‌years for smuggling nearly two tonnes of methamphetamine, in one of the country’s biggest drug busts in years.