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Aidan Jones
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
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Russian and Chinese firms are also competing to be the first to reach a tungsten mine in a conflict zone, sparking concerns of NGOs.
The ban comes as Thailand’s embattled fisheries sector faces increased competition, tariffs, shrimp disease, rising costs and reduced catch.
The former leader served eight months of a one-year sentence for corruption before he was released on parole last month due to his age.
Critics of the religious practice claim that a ‘two-tier’ policing framework protects British ethnic minorities at the expense of others.
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The men emerged weak and dazed to an outpouring of emotion from rescuers and relatives on the muddy topside. Two others remain missing.
The president, who visited Ho Chi Minh’s former home in Udon Thani, will meet the Thai king and hold talks with PM Anutin.
A Thai-led rescue team broke through to an area where they found the five villagers on a muddy ledge, but two others remain missing.
In a rare gun crime in Vietnam, the suspect admitted that he and an accomplice were in Ho Chi Minh City looking for two victims.
The raid on a brutal bile extraction facility disguised as a zoo was believed to be the largest in Southeast Asian history.
Thai teams have joined the mission, as rescuers share photos of the treacherous conditions in the cave tunnel.
Only 54 countries and territories will get a 30-day visa exemption as authorities aim to curb illegal activities involving foreign tourists.
Tigers, giant catfish, gibbons and pangolins are among the thousands of ‘critically endangered’ or ‘endangered’ species in the region.
A drug-positive train driver with no licence. A barrier raised too late. Thailand’s capital asks: when will the city finally fix itself?
The T-beauty industry is growing by 5 per cent each year and is estimated to be worth over US$10 billion by 2030.
The security chief turned paramount leader is chasing the markets and capital required to reach high-income status by 2045.
The former prime minister’s once unassailable Pheu Thai party is now just a minor player in Anutin Charnvirakul’s government.
Vietnam’s drive to energise its economy may take time to materialise in the face of rising fuel costs and trade barriers, analysts say.
Thai businesses are asking online experts to help reel in young big spenders who prize authenticity over heavily advertised content.
Police believe that some Chinese cyber scammers are using these false registrations to launder money through firms they can fully control.
Thailand is a key pipeline in a lucrative global trade that animal activists warn risks spreading zoonotic diseases and erasing biodiversity.
While the plan to bypass the Malacca Strait is popular with Anutin’s government, economists and environmentalists say it is not realistic.
The sanction freezes all US assets linked to Senator Kok An and his named associates, and bars any American national from dealing with them.
The Asian pangolin has been hunted for its meat and scales to the point of extinction, causing poachers to turn to its African cousins.
The Cambodian public is maintaining a boycott of Thai businesses even as the country’s economy is reeling from the global fuel crisis.
The region faces a perennial haze scourge, with enforcement of bans against slash-and-burn farm practices remaining patchy.
Burned by soaring energy prices, Southeast Asian nations are racing to future-proof themselves against the volatility of war.
A new UNDP report has forecast job losses, crippling inflation and food insecurity, with the poorest nations brutally exposed to the oil shock.
Soaring costs for fuel and ice fail to dampen the mood as a wave of ‘revenge travel’ provides a much-needed economic boost.
Rising fertiliser costs and fuel rationing have affected farmers’ productivity, but Myanmar has little capital to replenish these stocks.
