A comment on lese majeste made by Bangkok governor-elect Chadchart Sittipunt in response to a question has drawn reaction from camps supporting and opposing the law.

One of the country's largest banks bought a $220 million majority stake in Indonesia's Bank Maspion on Monday.

Health officials are monitoring the condition of 12 people who were in close contact with a traveller diagnosed with monkeypox who transited through Thailand for two hours while en route to Australia.

A pact between Thailand and Vietnam to raise rice prices would be "impossible", a top industry official said on Monday, in another sign of opposition to a government-proposed plan for a rice cartel amid a global food crisis.

The number of seriously ill coronavirus patients is falling overall and the coronavirus-related death rate is also declining, but at a slower pace, health officials said on Monday.

Thailand's factory output in April rose at a smaller pace than expected as higher costs continued to affect production, despite improved economic activity, the industry ministry said on Monday.

Thailand will sell 55 billion baht of government savings bonds next month to help finance a budget deficit, a Finance Ministry official said on Monday.

KYIV/KHARKIV: European Union leaders will meet on Monday to reiterate support for Ukraine as Russian forces intensified attacks to capture Sievierodonetsk, a key city in the southeastern Donbas region that Moscow has prioritised taking over.

KHARKIV, Ukraine: Ukrainian forces have counterattacked in the country's south, claiming to have pushed back Russian troops near three villages in the Kherson region, as President Volodymyr Zelensky made his first visit to the embattled east since th...

SAMUT PRAKAN: A fire at the warehouse of Samsung SDS Global SCL (Thailand) in Bang Phli district destroyed a large quantity of electrical appliances on Sunday night.