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Young pro-reform candidate won over many in the electorate – but not military appointees who blocked him from being PM

Thailand's parliament refused on Wednesday to allow progressive challenger Pita Limjareonrat to be given a second ballot for the prime ministership, said the house speaker. "Pita can't be nominated twice in this parliamentary session," the speaker said over howls of protest from the chamber.

The leader of Thailand’s Move Forward Party is expected to get a last chance to win parliament's confirmation as the country’s next prime minister

Puneri Paltan TT's maiden win in Ultimate Table Tennis season 4 was powered by Archana Kamath's all-round, aggressive display in the deciding rubber against World No. 38 Suthasini Sawettabutt of Thailand. After trailing 5-1, the home team surged to an 8-7 win. Harmeet Desai registered his second consecutive singles whitewash,…

The leader of the progressive party that won a surprise victory in Thailand’s May elections says he will make a second bid to become prime minister after being blocked last week by the country’s royalist and military establishment

Mixue has dominated Southeast Asia’s ice cream and tea businesses for five years, having opened its first outlet in Vietnam in 2018. Based in China, where it operates 22,500 stores. Around 1,000 Mixue outlets now operate in several Southeast Asian countries including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. In comparison, despite…

A hotel guest was arrested on defamation charges after he left a negative review. Sea View Resort, in Thailand, contacted the police after Wesley Barnes wrote what the resort described as “a series of harassment reviews”. Barnes spent two nights in prison, and now faces a potential two-year sentence. TripAdvisor…

Arsjad Rasjid, chairman of Asean Business Advisory Council (Asean-BAC) and chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), has shared his opinions about the electric vehicle industry in which Thailand and Indonesia can work together to establish an efficient and resilient supply chain in Southeast Asia for the…

Chinese manufacturers have shown interest in investing in the production of electric vehicles (EV) in Thailand to the tune of 1.44 billion US dollars, deputy government spokesperson Rachada Dhnadirek said on Sunday.

The amount of smuggled pork seized this year soared by 10-fold from the total last year due to high local pork prices, according to the Customs Department.

S. Jaishankar who arrived in Bangkok from Indonesia on Saturday on an official visit, met the Myanmar foreign minister on the sidelines of the Mekong Ganga Cooperation (MGC) Mechanism meeting.