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Ambassador Pimchanok Vonkorpon Pitfield. File photo: www.wto.org Thailand has replaced its Ambassador to WTO Pimchanok Vonkorpon Pitfield from here following a strong protest lodged by India on her contentious comment on New Delhi’s rice procurement programme, a top government official said on Friday. The official said that Ms. Pitfield has been asked to report back to…
Thailand is targeting about 28 million arrivals this year (Representational) Bangkok: Thailand will waive visa requirements for arrivals from India and Taiwan from next month to May 2024, a government official said on Tuesday, in a bid to draw in more tourists as the high season approaches. Thailand in September scrapped visa requirements for Chinese…
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Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin reads the policy statement at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, on September 11, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin vowed to act quickly to relieve the country’s economic problems in his inaugural speech to Parliament on September 11, following four months of political uncertainty while parliamentarians…
Thailand’s king has formally endorsed members of a new Cabinet, paving the way for a government headed by PM Srettha Thavisin, in picture, to take office more than three months after the general election. File | Photo Credit: AP Thailand’s King has formally endorsed members of a new Cabinet, paving the way for a government…
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Thailand’s former PM Thaksin Shinawatra arrives at Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Thailand’s jailed former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra had his prison sentence cut from eight years to one by the King on Friday, just days after he returned from a decade and a half in exile….
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Thaksin was elected as PM twice and ousted in a 2006 military coup. (File) Bangkok: Thailand’s jailed former premier Thaksin Shinawatra had his prison sentence cut from eight years to one by the king on Friday, just days after he returned from a decade and a half in exile. The move came a day after…
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