Latest News in Thailand

Exports Head Out and Up
Thailand’s exports grew at their fastest rate for 18 months in January as the financial system of key markets gained force, helping lift orders for commodities from farm products to auto parts.
Exports increased 30.8% from a year earlier to $13.72 billion, while increasing 26% in baht terms to 453.42 billion baht. [...]

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 Soros [...]

Tune In and Turn On or Tune Out and Turn Off Today for Thaksin TV
Former Thai Prime Minister and all around pain in the ass for the current Thai government,Thaksin Shinwatra, will make a test broadcast of two new television channels at noon on Sunday.
‘The first channel will be called “O Channel” which will [...]

Tourists Turn Away From Thailand
International tourist arrivals to Thailand will diminish by 38% to 1.5 million this year due to the doggedness of global economic troubles and local political volatility. This is according to The Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA).
Surapol Sritrakul, the association’s president, said advance reservations for the high season had been greatly [...]

Thai Political Veteran Sick and Tired of the Whole Mess
Thailand’s Pracharaj Party leader Sanoh Thienthong said on Sunday that he is weary of political affairs and is in preparation to leave the political stage, claiming to be sickened by the entire mess.
While speaking about former Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh’s return to politics by joining [...]

Thai Economy Chugs to Life
Thailand’s Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva on Wednesday voiced his assurance that the country’s gross domestic product will turn upward in the last quarter of this year for the reason that economists are now seeing many improved economic indicators and greater government revenue.
The government had to use merely 50 billion baht in [...]

Impotence Drugs Available At Last in Thailand
Thailand’s Food and Drug Administration secretary-general Pipat Yingseree yesterday stated that guidelines were being created to permit Erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra to be sold at certified pharmacies.
The FDA had been monitoring the use of the brand-name impotence drugs Viagra, Cialis, Elonza, Levitra and Tonafil for the last [...]

Online Lottery Closer to Approval
Thailand’s Council of State has given an opinion that the process of the two- and three-digit online lottery is legitimate, council secretary-general Pornthip Jala stated on Wednesday.
The Thai Government Lottery Office (GLO) had requested the council for an estimation of whether the sale of lottery tickets from an electronic online machine [...]

Gold prices in Bangkok, Thailand up 2.6 percent on Monday, Gold up to Record High
Bangkok, Thailand: Gold prices went up 2.6% Monday in Gold Market in Bankok, Thailand due to the rise in tensions with Iran and Israel in Middle East.
Gold jewelry went up to a record high of 15,600 Baht or $466 per 1 [...]