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'Major progress' in FTA talks
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 22/12/2025
» Thailand and Peru have made "significant progress" in negotiations to upgrade their bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), with both sides agreeing on major elements covering wider market access and deeper economic cooperation, Commerce Minister Suphajee Suthumpun says.
Saudi Arabia seen as trade gateway to Middle East
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 06/12/2025
» The Commerce Ministry has bolstered trade ties with Saudi Arabia as it seeks to explore the Middle Eastern market.
Thailand–Japan ties at a crossroads
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 18/11/2025
» For the past four decades, Thailand-Japan ties have been smooth as silk, reflecting the Japanese concept of ishin denshin, an idiom that describes communication without words. That idiom reflects a very good relationship, a deep mutual understanding between the two parties.
Suphajee supports trade zone with India
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 27/10/2025
» Commerce Minister Suphajee Suthum-pun on Sunday voiced support for an Asean–India Free Trade Area (FTA).
Terminal volunteers can save lives
News, Peter Singer & Benjamin L Sievers, Published on 13/09/2025
» At the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), a programme called Last Gift offers terminally ill patients the opportunity to help create more effective treatments. Their special circumstances transform the usual risk-benefit calculus of joining a clinical study of an untested drug. Researchers can ask them to consider consenting to being research participants in ways that they would not ask healthier people with long life expectancies, and terminally ill patients may choose to give that consent when others would be less likely to do so.
Asean+3's role in a rapidly fragmenting world
News, Hoe Ee Khor & Jae Young Lee, Published on 20/06/2025
» The risks posed by the fragmentation of the multilateral trading system transcend mere inefficiencies. Without a coherent, rules-based framework, global value chains will become vulnerable, investment risks will rise, and smaller, trade-dependent economies will be left increasingly exposed to the arbitrariness of bigger nations.
Sri Lankan premier courts investors
News, Jitsiree Thongnoi, Published on 04/04/2025
» Sri Lanka's political stability and sense of hope will propel it to become "the world's next success story", and investors are "invited to be a part of it", the country's prime minister, Harini Amarasuriya, said on Thursday at an investment seminar in Bangkok.
Govt hails FTA talks with Britain
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 09/12/2024
» Thailand and the United Kingdom are in talks to expand trade and investment between the two countries under a free trade agreement (FTA).
MoU aims to inspire youth in science and sustainability
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 22/08/2024
» The UN Global Compact Network Thailand (UNGCNT) has partnered with the National Science Museum (NSM) to promote science, technology, and sustainable development among Thai children.
Banks that don't want money bode ill
News, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 11/07/2024
» When is the last time readers experienced a situation like this? One takes money to deposit in a bank and the bank says please take your money elsewhere as we have no use for it. Such an unusual situation is happening in Thailand at this moment. Thai banks are reducing their credit portfolios and, consequently, reducing their needs for funding.