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BANGKOK -- Thailand's ruling party will push forward with its long-delayed digital wallet stimulus, opening registration for the 10,000 baht ($277) handout from Aug. 1, but has yet to set a rollout date for the scheme meant to improve the Thai economy's year-end prospects.
BANGKOK — Thailand will work towards legislating marijuana for medical use, a deputy prime minister said Tuesday (July 23), signalling a U-turn on plans to re-criminalise the plant and another change in the government's hazy position on cannabis.
VIENTIANE/SINGAPORE -- Thailand's national railway opened a new passenger service to Laos this month, the latest addition to an expanding Southeast Asian rail network aimed at increasing cross-border traffic of people and goods with China.
BANGKOK (AP) — Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar’s military-government, on Monday also took the position of acting president to replace the holder of that post who was unable to perform his duties due to health problems, state media reported.
BANGKOK (AP) — An intensification of fighting in Myanmar’s civil war has brought a sharp increase in destructive attacks on schools, a group that monitors armed conflict in the Southeast Asian nation said in a report Saturday.
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government held a wreath-laying ceremony in the country’s largest city Friday to mark the anniversary of the assassination of the country’s fallen independence heroes, including Gen. Aung San, the father of the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares retreated in Europe and Asia on Friday after a broad washout across Wall Street dragged U.S. stocks lower.
BANGKOK — Thailand's government will meet next week with commercial banks and state agencies to investigate transactions allegedly used for weapons purchases by Myanmar's junta, and urge tighter scrutiny, the foreign minister said on Thursday (July 18).