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BANGKOK — Tax collection throughout the first 6 months of 2014 fiscal has missed the target by six per cent thanks to the ongoing political crisis, officials said.

Convenience stores, telecoms, brewers, movie theaters and more are dominated by just one or two players in Thailand despite a 17-year-old antitrust law. A toothless law that, by design or defect, left critical portions unfinished and unenforceable.

SINGAPORE — Asian markets were mixed Tuesday in narrow trading on doubts that U.S. and China can manage to resolve their festering trade dispute.   Keeping...

(11 February) Thailand′s economic growth would increase by 1% if the government fully paid the farmers under the rice mortgage programme, a World Bank analyst suggested.

BANGKOK — Asia's leading mixed martial arts promoter ONE Championship will hold two events in Bangkok in 2017 and expects to soon confirm dates in Japan and South Korea as it expands into new markets.

Growing a digital economy requires a significant development in several areas, one of them is the startup ecosystem to help develop new companies and make Thailand – or more likely Bangkok – an attractive place for startups to come and do business.

BANGKOK — A former Thai Airways executive told a public forum today that privatising Thai Airways is the only way to save the debt-ridden national airline from an imminent financial collapse.

BANGKOK — The 6.0 magnitude earthquake that shook northern Thailand on Monday caused 2 billion baht in damages, a prominent economist has estimated.

SA KAEO — When police raided a house in the border town of Aranyaprathet on Sunday, they discovered more than 500 active phones lined...

BANGKOK — That next lager or ciggie could help put some food on grannie’s table.