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Gone are the days when getting around Bangkok (Thailand) meant hours stuck in tightly gridlocked traffic. The city’s new network of sky-trains, underground trains and river ferries, all connected at interchanges, makes getting around this sprawling city a breeze.

Bangkok, Thailand, has been called everything from the Venice of the East to the Capital of Sin, but only recently has it been raising eyebrows as a cosmopolitan destination.

BMC Software today announced that Thai Airways International Public Company Limited, Thailand' s national air carrier, has selected BMC' s Software ' s leading IT Service Management solutions to transform ...

Thailand's inflation rate soared to 7.6 per cent in May, the highest in nearly a decade, due to the unrelenting rise of oil prices.

Anti-government street protests and rumors of a military coup are hurting Thailand's economy and investors' confidence, the finance minister said Monday as the stock market dropped 2.8 percent.

Anti-government protesters in Thailand will keep up their demonstrations until Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej steps down, one of the group's leaders said Sunday. Chamlong Srimuang, a former Bangkok governor who helped lead similar protests in 2006, said...

Today I once again took a weekend "stroll" to one of the largest markets in Thailand, the Chatuchak Weekend Market.

Ten hours of stand-off between the government and the People's Alliance for Democracy was defused last night after the government backed down on its threatening "ultimatum". PM Samak Sundaravej had promised in ...

A leader of anti-government protesters in Thailand says they will keep up their demonstrations until Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej steps down.

Unlike mainland Krabi and Phi Phi, rough sea conditions mean access is relatively harder and the passenger ferries stop running altogether; in addition the limited number of non-beach activities means there is ...

Sex and the City Opens a Few Days Later in Thailand Than in the US, but the Buzz for it is Huge Font On Thursday, I'm going to see the new Sex and the City movie here in Bangkok, Thailand.

Leaders of the People's Alliance for Democracy submitted a petition on Friday to launch impeachment proceeding against 164 senators and members of parliament who supported a motion to amend the Constitution.

The People Power Party decided on Friday to file a second motion on charter rewrite after its first one was dropped due to insufficient sponsors.

Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej declined to say who he will assign to replace Jakrapob Penkair as the minister attached to the Prime Minister's Office.

Scuffles last weekend between pro- and anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok as well as ongoing anti-government protests have sharpened fears of another upheaval in Thailand in the weeks or months ahead.

BANGKOK, Thailand Oil was supported above $132 a barrel Monday in Asia by ongoing worries about global petroleum supplies and the outlook this week for the U.S. dollar.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Myanmar on Thursday on the diplomatic mission of a lifetime - persuading the ruling generals to let in a torrent of foreign assistance for millions of cyclone ...

Thailand made their Olympic debut in Helsinki, Finland in 1952 and have since taken part in every tournament except the 1980 Moscow Games when they joined a US-led boycott. It took Thailand 24 years to win their first Olympic medal when ...

With no sign of soaring global oil prices ending, price rises that directed impacted domestic prices, the cabinet Tuesday gave the green light to measures to cushion the future impact as well as promoting the ...

Leading Thai scholars urged the public to push for a new constitution drafting process, including a complete redrafting of the current 2007 constitution by a broad-based group representing all segments of ...