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A bank manager has been charged after 12 Lao workers — some as young as 14 — were found enslaved and kept in cages on a farm outside Bangkok. The workers, aged between 14 and 25 years old, were found sleeping in small spaces framed by ...

Thailand is among several countries in the East Asia and Pacific region to record an increase in financial inclusion thanks to greater financial services offered by state-owned banks, says a World Bank senior economist. Thailand registered a higher rate of financial inclusion among adults aged 15 ...

Busloads of visitors from China flocked to Bangkok’s glittering Grand Palace on 21 August but, days after a bomb at another of the city’s popular attractions killed five Chinese tourists, Thailand’s biggest spending holidaymakers are rattled. The attack on a Hindu shrine, particularly popular with Chinese devotees, did ...

Thailand has said that a deadly bomb attack at a popular shrine in Bangkok was “unlikely” to be the work of international terrorists, but appealed for Interpol help in hunting a foreign man accused of being the prime suspect. The military government was initially reluctant in ...

Costco Wholesale Corp was sued for selling farmed shrimp from Thailand, where slave labour and human trafficking in the fishing industry are widespread, and allegedly misleading US consumers about it. A California woman, Monica Sud, filed what may be the first such lawsuit against the retailer ...

The Thai government’s statement in late July that it is considering bringing water from the Mekong, Moei and Salween rivers to farmland to nine of its provinces has raised major concerns.  The water diversion has been described as a move to ‘extract blood from the Mekong’s ...

Thailand’s investment of 48.68 billion baht in the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will seek approval soon from the National Legislative Assembly. Keep reading ...

Business leaders believe the explosion at the Ratchaprasong intersection will hurt tourism but expect the overall negative effect on the economy will be more psychological and short term. Supant Mongkolsuthree, chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries, said tourism would be the sector hit hardest by the horrific ...

Twenty-three countries by 18 August had issued travel advisories in the wake of the 17 August Erawan shrine bombing, with most advising caution rather than avoiding travel to Thailand. Keep reading ...

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services sees limited immediate impact on the sovereign credit support for Thailand in the wake of the 17 August bombing at Bangkok’s popular Erawan Shrine that killed 20 people and injured another 125.  Keep reading ...