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Thai Economy Expected to Return to Health by End of 2010 Kanit Saengsuphan, director of the Fiscal Policy Research Institute, said Wednesday at a seminar called “Financial Situation in the Current Economic Crisis” that the economy is unlikely to return to normal growth until sometime around the end of 2010. He estimates that the growth [...]

Swine Flu Stampedes Through Thailand Official reported cases of H1N1 flu virus have reached 310, doubling in the last 24 hours. The Public Health Ministry has asked provincial health and hospital officials not to speak to the media about swine flu cases in an effort to calm public concern about the spread of the virus. [...]

Burma Continues Preparing for Aung San Suu Kyi Trial Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winner, who will turn 64 this Friday, is currently being held at Rangoon’s infamous Insein prison on charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest after an incident where an American man swam to her lakeside house in [...]

400 Billion Baht Stimulus Plan Hopes to Boost Thai Economy Today’s parliamentary session is expected to work toward approval of a 400 billion baht loan package designed to improve the state of the Thai economy. The debate in parliament will last through Tuesday and be carried live on Thai television. Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij hopes [...]

Thai Community Radio to Come Under Government Supervision About 1,200 owners and operators of small community radio stations have hurried to submit an application for advance registration so they will be at the top of the line up when the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issues licenses and frequencies designations The NTC has informed more than [...]

Baby Panda in Chiang Mai Names Narrowed to Four A committee made up of members of the Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand has chosen four names from thousands of suggestions submitted from throughout the kingdom for the new female baby panda recently born at the Chiang Mai Zoo. The four possible names making up the [...]

Thai Government Vows to End Violence in Southern Thailand in Three Years Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva spoke today about the violence in southern Thailand related to the Muslim insurgency which continues to take innocent lives. The government is setting a deadline of three years to end the violence which has recently included a shooting [...]

Cambodia and Laos Removed from U.S. Trade Blacklist Companies doing business in Laos and Cambodia will be eligible for loans from the U.S. government with the removal of Laos and Cambodia from a trade blacklist meant to prevent loans going to “Marxist-Leninist” governments by the U.S. export-Import Bank. * President Obama stated : The Lao [...]

Swine Flu Toll in Thailand Now at 150 Confirmed Cases. 44 new cases of H1N1 flu have been reported by Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health. This brings the official total to 150. According to the Permanent Secretary for Public Health, Dr. Prat Boonyawongvirot, most of the new cases are students who contracted the virus at [...]