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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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The energy firm will maintain prices for 15 days, even as Thailand says it will still export oil to Laos.
Bangkok has been here before: 46 Thais died in the Hamas assault that started the Gaza war. Now it fears history may be repeating.
Vietnam’s Communist Party chief is staking his legacy on 10 per cent growth, domestic megaprojects and an overseas charm offensive.
Around 150,000 young ravers are expected to flood Pattaya for the world’s largest electronic music festival in December.
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‘By the time we realised they were sick, it was too late,’ said an official, as welfare groups decry a life of misery and confinement.
The country’s heavy investment in wooing Chinese visitors appears to have paid off as it overcomes safety fears to secure holiday growth.
With counting errors forcing revotes this Sunday, the reformist opposition is seizing on irregularities to demand a fresh election.
While Cambodia takes its border grievances to Trump’s Board of Peace, Thailand rejects its ‘false’ claims and threatens a border wall.
Shuttered borders have choked trade and sent migrant workers home, forcing Phnom Penh to seek new partners and markets.
Sasiphat Sinsamosorn, 54, had negotiated with the attacker for the release of a pupil in exchange for herself.
The People’s Party, among others, cites ‘clear evidence of irregularities during the tallying process’, including vote-buying and tampering.
Voters weary of upheaval embraced Bhumjaithai’s technocratic promises of debt relief and subsidies, sidelining the reformist People’s Party.
The Bhumjaithai Party is forecast to win nearly 200 seats as People’s Party concedes election.
Born in a Thai refugee camp and raised in Texas, Kham Paneboun is now stateless in Laos, one of thousands punished again for old crimes.
Whoever wins will become Thailand’s fourth prime minister in three years but face a daunting task to revive the economy and ease political gridlock.
Two Russians have been accused of murdering Mikhail Emelianov after his body parts were found across abandoned land near Pattaya.
Reformers, conservatives and populists face off in the coming election with lofty promises to fix the country’s economy and political system.
With the economy struggling and corruption rife, Thai voters will look to the February 8 election as a chance to turn the country around.
Chinese visitor arrivals slumped by nearly 30 per cent last year amid concerns over safety, the border war with Cambodia and the strong baht.
Disenfranchised citizens and migrants dismiss the election as a meaningless exercise designed solely to validate the military’s iron grip.
The former leader was blocked from leading government and banned from politics after his party stunned the ruling elite in 2023.
Nations are likely to try to avoid early commitment while steering clear of outright rejection to minimise US retaliation, analysts say.
In eastern Thailand, 5,000 pigeons brave predators and exhaustion in a gruelling sprint for a US$2 million purse.
Amid public anger, PM Anutin issued an order to end two contracts and blacklist Italian-Thai Development after two crane disasters killed 34 people.
From US$2,000 for newborns to debt write-offs, Thai political parties are dangling a raft of handouts in a bid to woo voters on February 8.
The Senate can no longer pick the prime minister, opening a path to victory for the reformist People’s Party in the election on February 8.
Caretaker PM Anutin rides nationalist wave over Cambodia; Pheu Thai taps Thaksin’s nephew to revive brand; reformists drop key vows to stay relevant.
Analysts warn that conflict, power shortages and resource extraction under military rule are pushing Myanmar’s economy further into reverse.
As the country mourns the loss of Queen Mother Sirikit amid political chaos and a sluggish economy, Lisa’s global reign lights up Thai public.
