Latest News in Thailand

I Don’t Recall a Recall Like This A Thai spokesperson for Toyota Motor Thailand announced today that customers who imported or purchased their cars from neighborhood independent importers or on the grey market need to contact Toyota dealers countrywide to check whether their imported cars match those being recalled. Toyota’s Thai unit will then synchronize [...]

Hun Sen Touchy About His Appearance in Uniform A fresh barrage of insults by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen aimed at Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is expanding the diplomatic gulf among the two countries. Thailand and Cambodia had been struggling to find ways to mend fences after a series of quarrels but Hun Sen [...]

Committee May Pretend to Test Hoax Bomb Detector to Save Face for Big-Shot Suckers Thai Science and Technology Minister Khunying Kalaya Sophonpanich, a name which may soon live in scientific infamy, and who has the power to actually scientifically test the GT200 dowsing rod and expose the deadly fraud, has chosen instead to set up [...]

Thaksin’s Two Billion Dollars The total of 76 billion baht in frozen assets of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra could be confiscated as the court is being demanded to do so by Thaksin’s adversaries, Jaturon Chaisaeng, former acting head of the dissolved Thai Rak Thai Party, announced on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Jaturon asserted that [...]

Thai Airlines CEO Speaks of Immunization Thai Airways International’s new leader wants to bring in what he calls an “immune system” into the organization, to stop interlopers receiving benefits. Piyasvasti Amranand says he will call for staff to fight off what he calls the pressure of interfering politicians and avaricious management. THAI would never live [...]

Bank Hopes Baht Won’t Take a Bath The Bank of Thailand should take care that the Thai baht’s value stays at between 33 to 34 baht per US dollar, Manoon Siriwan, an energy authority, said on Saturday. “If the Thai currency is weaker than that levels, it could affect domestic retail prices of fuel”, Mr [...]

Political Parties Meet to Discuss Charter Amendments Influential leaders of Thailand’s Bhumjaithai and Chart Thai Pattana parties concurred on Wednesday to work together in pushing for modifications to some parts of the Thai constitution, Chart Thai Pattana leader Chumpol Silpa-archa said to reporters following the meeting. “We would like to announce our standpoint, that we [...]

More than 70 per cent of Thai people think Thailand’s economy is worsening, according to an opinion survey by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University released on Saturday. The opinion poll called “People’s confidence in economic recovery”, questioned 1,327 people, and had been conducted from Dec 1 to 3. 56.55 per cent of those respondending to the [...]

Small and Medium Enterprises Bank Issues Report The latest statistics as to the total value of loans supported by the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Bank (SMEs Bank) during the first 10 months of this year increased by 99.96 per cent over the same period during last year, reaching 33.61 billion baht, the bank’s president [...]