SONGKHLA - Immigration police have arrested a Chinese former flight attendant who is suspected of acting as a broker for a human smuggling network that helps foreigners across the Thai-Malaysian border.

From wowing headbangers in Singapore to livening up a dinner for the planet’s financial elite, it’s been another eventful week for Nene Royal, the young Phuket rocker and winner of this year’s “America’s Got Talent&rdquo...

Demonstrators gathered on Thursday morning near the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, the venue of IMF-World Bank Group meetings, but were prevented by police from advancing.

More than 2,000 businesses under the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) suffered losses from severe flooding late last month, with total damage estimated at 6-7 billion baht, according to representatives.

Thai tourism could lose between 50-150 billion baht in revenue a year thanks to the proposed departure tax, compared with the 45.9 billion baht it is expected to raise, with airlines opposing the levy due to its poor timing and the likelihood of it u...

The World Bank says data is the new collateral for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) seeking credit, unlocking capital constraints and enabling financial institutions to better understand their borrowers.

Business dynamism is crucial for a country's productivity, which requires transformative regulatory and financial mechanisms to help drive entrepreneurs with high growth potential instead of allocating resources to less productive firms, say panellis...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Thailand to strengthen its economic fundamentals and deepen regional trade integration as persistently high global borrowing costs threaten to constrain growth and limit policy flexibility.

Thaksin Shinawatra's lawyer has urged the amnesty committee to consider the political origins of the former prime minister's cases, warning that excluding him could prolong Thailand's political divisions.

Corruption can reduce real GDP per capita growth by 3% for up to two years, while money laundering amounts to as much as US$6 trillion annually worldwide, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).