Thai Tourism Products Score High in new Travel Poll
Thai tourism destinations, airlines, airports, hotels and spa resorts scored high marks in the Best in Travel 2012 Poll announced by the popular website Smart Travel Asia 2012. More...
Tourism Council of Thailand : confidence index drops 8%
Tourism Council of Thailand reported, Wednesday, its tourism confidence index for April to June 2012 dropped eight points to 92. Research was compared to a normal confidence benchmark of 100. The index gained data More...
Thailand cuts taxes to boost investment in flooded areas
BOI gave a green light to the latest measure to encourage new investment projects in flood-affected districts. The new measure is aimed at attracting new investors as well as urging the current ones to expand their More...
United States has begun easing sanctions on Burma
The United States has begun easing sanctions on Burma, allowing it improved access to institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in response to a raft of reforms announced by the country’s President More...
Thailand’s ruling Pheu Thai Party to propose charter amendment
Thailand’s ruling Pheu Thai Party has finished its drafting on the charter amendment and will submit the draft for consideration of the government whip on Monday, said the party spokesman Prompong Nopparit More...
Yingluck needs to restore Thailand’s role in ASEAN
Thailand has elected female prime minister for the first time in its history.Yingluck Shinawatra and her Pheu Thai Party formed a coalition government of 300 seats in parliament. More...
Thai economy bottomed out in November, to rebound from Decembre (FPO)
The Thai economy bottomed out in November last year when the country was hit by the cumulative impact of severe flooding, but it is now likely to grow 5 per cent this year, said Somchai Sujjapongse, director-general More...
Thailand voted favourite sailing destination in Asia
Thailand was voted the favourite sailing venue and best regatta location in Asia in a survey conducted at the 2011 Phuket King’s Cup Regatta of international sailors from around the world. More...
Europe’s New role in the Pacific century
This century will be America’s Pacific century, wrote US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the November issue of Foreign Policy. As she put it: ‘The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan More...
Burma chairmanship: a test that ASEAN may be failing
Even before the announcement that ASEAN member states had awarded the 2014 rotating chairmanship to Burma, it was already a foregone conclusion. Burma’s campaign to be reinstated as a regular member of ASEAN More...