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BANGKOK — The leader of the Thai Airways union has threatened to call a strike and shutdown the company if the government refuses to resign by 21 May.

BANGKOK — Thailand is seeing the smallest growth in tourist numbers in five years as a result of the country’s prolonged political crisis, says the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).

BANGKOK — The Department of Internal Trade has announced a plan to install food stalls selling inexpensive items inside major supermarkets across the country.

BANGKOK — Farmers who are still waiting to be paid for participating in the government’s rice-pledging program will be forced to wait even longer now that the country lacks a Finance Minister, a government official said.

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

LOS ANGELES (DPA) — A California jury handed down its verdict in the Apple-Samsung trial Friday afternoon, finding that Samsung infringed on two Apple patents.

BANGKOK — Despite the economic fallout caused by Thailand’s protracted political crisis, Thai commercial banks are still enjoying a high level of stability, a top official insists.

BANGKOK — Thailand has reached a trade agreement that will allow the kingdom to sell at least three million tonnes of rice to the Philippines over the next three years, a top official said.

BANGKOK — Facing huge financial losses, Thai Airways is slated to "encourage" 5,000 of its employees to resign in order to save operational costs, the director airline said.

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.