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Major moments to watch in Thailand
News, Published on 02/01/2026
» As the nation steps into the New Year, the 'Bangkok Post' highlights several events that will define the months ahead.
Pheu Thai criticises lukewarm reaction to House speaker plan
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/07/2023
» The wrangle over the House speaker position has taken a new turn as the Pheu Thai Party may not be so keen on the Move Forward Party (MFP) filling the role after all, after it apparently displayed a lukewarm reaction to the Pheu Thai proposal.
Potash investment upsets locals
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 13/03/2023
» Locals in Chaiyaphum province have expressed alarm after the cabinet's decision in February to put an extra 90 million baht investment into Asean Potash Chaiyaphum Plc (APOT), seen as a push to revive the local potash mining industry.
A fraught year in politics
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 30/12/2020
» It is often said that Thailand resolves around political events. Here are the five most dynamic and attention-grabbing stories — the youth-led, anti-government protests, the Future Forward Party’s spectacular fall, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha surviving the Constitutional Court’s rulings that threatened to deliver the death warrant on his premiership, the Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO) elections held for the first time in six years and the internal turbulence experienced by the main opposition Pheu Thai Party — which have left their mark this year.
Arkhom secures finance post
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/10/2020
» His Majesty the King has endorsed the appointment of Arkhom Termpittayapaisith as the new finance minister, ending the month-long vacancy left by the sudden resignation of his brief predecessor, Predee Daochai.
String of tragedies spur green push
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 31/12/2019
» Dugong deaths and plastic bags
Pope reveals 'secret to a happy heart'
News, Thana Boonlert & Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 23/11/2019
» His Holiness Pope Francis urged all young people to "keep the fire of love burning" in darkness, in a message to encourage the youth in their times of difficulties, during a Holy Mass at the 109-year-old Assumption Cathedral in Bang Rak yesterday evening.
Pope boosts morale of sick in St Louis Hospital
News, Thana Boonlert, Published on 22/11/2019
» Pope Francis made time in his busy schedule to visit patients at Bangkok's St Louis Hospital, which is marking its 120th anniversary.
Pope Francis begins papal tour
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 21/11/2019
» Pope Francis arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday, greeted by a sea of devout Catholics awaiting the first apostolic visit in almost four decades.
How Catholicism took root in Thailand
News, Nauvarat Suksamran & Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 20/11/2019
» The first Christian to establish diplomatic relations with Siam was Alfonso de Albuquerque, the Portuguese governor-general assigned to Asia. Portugal was at the time occupying Malacca, in modern-day Malaysia, and sent its diplomats to the Ayutthaya Kingdom during the reign of King Ramathibodi II to forge relations in 1511.