Thailand has started banning the sale of cannabis to those without a prescription, three years after becoming the first country in Asia to decriminalize the plant.

Thailand is, notoriously, the only middle-income or high-middle income country that continues to have regular coups. (Brazil defeated a coup plot in 2022 but has not had successful coups since the ...

Thailand appoints another acting prime minister amid political turmoil The country has had three leaders in as many days, following a court’s decision to suspend Paetongtarn Shinawatra.

Amid political uncertainty in Bangkok, a violent insurgency continues in the country’s majority Malay Muslim provinces in the south, with no possible settlement in sight.

A former private sector executive with experience of handling major state-owned financial institutions and a long-time central banker who could maintain continuity are in the race to become the ...

Reuters The Bank of Thailand logo is pictured in Bangkok, Thailand, January 30, 2025. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa/File Photo ...

Thailand's central bank left its key interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, as expected, saying it was saving some policy ammunition if needed to support an economy expected to slow amid trade ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -A former private sector executive with experience of handling major state-owned financial institutions and a long-time central banker who could maintain continuity are in the race ...

BANGKOK — Thailand’s government is moving to recriminalize cannabis, plunging into limbo an industry estimated to be worth over $1 billion that has boomed since the substance was taken off the ...

Thailand's Constitutional Court has suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an ethics investigation over a leaked phone call with a senior Cambodian leader.

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Vitai, 54, president and chief executive of Government Savings Bank, Thailand's largest state-run lender, could be better aligned in working with the Pheu Thai party-led government, which has been ...