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More Cambodians fleeing hardship return to Thailand illegally
News, Online Reporters, Published on 08/09/2025
» Fifty more Cambodians who said they were desperate to find work were caught returning illegally to Thailand in Sa Kaeo province on Monday.
Maris raises landmine concerns with Red Cross
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 30/08/2025
» Foreign Affairs Minister Maris Sangiampongsa said Thailand is concerned over Cambodia's repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement and the continued use of anti-personnel landmines along the border, during talks with Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
55 illegals nabbed in Chon Buri
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/07/2025
» Fifty-five undocumented migrant workers were apprehended at a construction site in Chon Buri's Si Racha district as part of a stepped-up campaign against illegal employment, led by the Department of Employment.
Department of Business Development hails investments worth B89bn
News, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 30/06/2025
» Foreign investment in Thailand reached about 89 billion baht in the first five months of the year, with Japan at the top with over 41 billion baht invested, says the Department of Business Development (DoBD).
Mobile operators need competition
News, Peter Cramton & Erik Bohlin, Published on 31/03/2025
» Thailand's mobile communications market has two service providers with an equal share of customers. In economic terms, it is a symmetric duopoly. This is the worst market structure because the two can easily discipline each other to limit competition: "I'll match any lower price you set; I'll limit 5G and 6G investment if you do." This reciprocity limits competition in price and quality, which helps the carriers' shareholders but harms consumers, especially in the long run, through slower innovation in a critical infrastructure industry.
Ripped-off job seekers left stranded at Suvarnabhumi airport
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 06/01/2025
» About 250 people have complained they were promised work in Australia or Israel by job brokers and then left stranded at Suvarnabhumi airport on Saturday without their promised air flights.
Man severely injured by runaway truck wheel
News, Online Reporters, Published on 24/12/2024
» CHON BURI - A 38-year-old deliveryman was gravely injured when hit by a big, rolling wheel that had come off a passing trailer truck on Tuesday.
No place on earth is worse off than Sudan
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/11/2024
» There are wars in the world worse than those in Ukraine and Gaza. The war in Sudan is insanely cruel and stupid, but you hardly hear anything about it. Why not? Because, like me, other journalists hate writing about it and avoid doing so if they can.
North Korea's human rights violations
News, John J Metzler, Published on 28/08/2023
» Most countries politely prefer to look the other way when it comes to confronting widespread reports of North Korean human rights violations. After all what can you do about what goes on in one of the world's most closed and repressive communist regimes?
Is Najib Bukele the world's coolest dictator?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/08/2023
» 'It's not perfect, but it's good. We've done something really good here," said El Salvador's vice-president, Felix Ulloa, defending the government's no-quarter war against the street gangs that have dominated the Central American republic for decades. President Nayib Bukele agrees, calling himself "the instrument of God".