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With gender equality and inclusion fast becoming a norm globally, three top companies in Thailand – Dtac, Sansiri and Unilever – have joined hands in setting up a three-year roadmap to improve gender equality standards in the country.

Pride parade returns to Bangkok on June 5 to celebrate sexual diversity while raising issues of gay marriage, social justice, and gender inequality, its organisers said on Friday.

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Thailand’s exports grew almost 10 per cent in April, showing signs of a slowdown from the 13.7 per cent expansion in the first four months of the year.

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In a Historic first Israeli moroccan embassies in Bangkok host Mimouna Party

Tickets to watch the Thailand national football team take on Turkmenistan in tonight’s warm-up for the AFC Asian Cup qualifiers were sold out within 20 minutes today.

The state-run Transport Co Ltd aims to invest more than THB2 billion to rent 368 electric buses in a bid to reduce fuel costs by approximately 60 per cent.

China’s strict “zero Covid” policy has been blamed for a drop in Thailand’s cross-border and international border trade in April, which totalled 127.1 billion baht, down 10.8 per cent from the same period last year.

The Public Health Ministry believes the frozen sample of smallpox vaccine dating back 40 years may offer a key to the prevention of monkeypox.

Thai snooker legend James Wattana was selected by the Sport Development Fund Foundation as its first brand ambassador after he won his first Southeast Asian Games gold medal last Sunday in Vietnam.

Opposition Pheu Thai Party’s executive director Pachara Naripthaphan attended this year’s Southeastern European Gathering in Bucharest on Friday.

The face mask mandate will be lifted in Blue and Green zones from the middle of June, as Thailand transitions to endemic Covid-19.

Indians have become the largest group of tourists to Thailand, with more than 100,000 arrivals so far this year, with potentially up to 600,000 by year-end, a senior Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) official said.

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Syn Mun Kong Insurance Plc (SMK) on Thursday confirmed it will continue to pay out on ordinary policy claims and is studying guidelines to compensate Covid-19 insurance policyholders as part of its business rehab plan.

Eight thousand durian saplings worth THB240,000 were confiscated at a border checkpoint in the northeastern Ubon Ratchathani province on Friday as they were being transported across the border.

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC) must ensure that the True Corporation (True) and Total Access Communication (Dtac) merger does not cause market dominance, the Thailand Consumers Council (TCC) said on Thursday.

India is considering imposing restrictions on rice exports in a bid to ensure adequate availability in the domestic market and prevent a rise in prices, sources said.

Prime Minister Hun Sen told UN special envoy on Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer that Cambodia remains committed to assisting this country in finding the solution to ending the crisis and providing humanitarian assistance to those in need as well as spurring dialogue between all parties to the conflict.

In his first foreign policy pronouncement, Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Thursday said he would uphold a 2016 decision by the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) that favoured Manila’s diplomatic protest against Beijing’s sweeping claims in the South China Sea.

Hosted at W Bangkok on 3rd June 2022, “Love Out Loud” will be a colorful occasion that underscores the company’s deep commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

As a key foundation for digital development, 5G technologies will integrate advanced digital technologies such as edge computing, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and big data, providing new methods, paths, and ideas for digital transformation of the economy and society.

Bangkok governor-elect Chadchart Sittipunt plans to move all BMA organisations to City Hall 2 in Din Daeng district.