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Hat Yai tourism reels as Chinese New Year bookings plunge
Online Reporters, Published on 15/02/2026
» HAT YAI - The Chinese New Year in Hat Yai has been markedly subdued this year, with room bookings plunging and many businesses still closed months after last year’s flood, local hotel and tourism operators said on Sunday,
Police bust illegal body modification clinic in Chon Buri
Online Reporters, Published on 12/02/2026
» CHON BURI - A man has been arrested for running an illegal body‑modification business from his home and promoting his services — including penile enlargement — using techniques he had learned in prison.
Myanmar woman arrested as 200,000 counterfeit items seized in Samut Sakhon
Online Reporters, Published on 04/02/2026
» Thai authorities have arrested a Myanmar woman accused of producing and selling counterfeit consumer products online with her Chinese husband, seizing more than 200,000 items in a warehouse raid in Samut Sakhon province.
GWM to close ORA Good Cat line as it expands EV expansion in Thailand
Online Reporters, Published on 02/02/2026
» Great Wall Motor (GWM) is set to discontinue production of its ORA Good Cat electric vehicle after four years on the Thai market, marking the end of a model that played a pivotal role in popularising battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the kingdom.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... and technology
Online Reporters, Published on 19/01/2026
» What happens when the romance of beauty meets the power of technology? In the ninth episode of the Bangkok Post’s Mind The Gap, "The evolution of beauty tech: Beauty has always been science", two voices from opposite ends of the beauty industry come together to explore this question.
Co-payment scheme ends, injecting B84bn into Thai economy
Online Reporters, Published on 01/01/2026
» The government’s Khon La Khrueng (half-half) Plus co-payment scheme has officially ended, with more than 9.21 million participants fully using their allotted benefits, while over 10.5 million users did not exhaust their entitlements.
Tearful concert ticket scalper recounts how she lost B850,000
Online Reporters, Published on 15/12/2025
» The online community was set alight by a dramatic Facebook post detailing the financial collapse of a concert-ticket reseller who claimed to have lost more than B850,000 speculating on demand for tickets to a major live event.
New Election Commission chief eyes Feb 8 as possible election date
Online Reporters, Published on 12/12/2025
» Narong Klunwarin, the newly appointed chairman of the Election Commission (EC), has affirmed the agency’s full readiness to organise the upcoming general election following the House dissolution.
Cabinet rejects extra-holiday plan for 2026
Online Reporters, Published on 02/12/2025
» The cabinet on Tuesday scrapped a plan to create additional holidays next year to promote tourism in Thailand, as ministers fretted about disruption of economic activity.
Co-payment scheme spending reaches B38 billion
Online Reporters, Published on 15/11/2025
» The Khon La Khrueng Plus (Half-Half Plus) co-payment scheme has recorded 37.9 billion baht in spending in the 17 days since its launch, with more than 710,000 participants having fully used their subsidy quota, according to the Ministry of Finance.