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US lawmakers and Thai police target regional scam gangs

August 20, 2026

Representatives Sylvia Garcia and Lucy McBath met Thai police to discuss intelligence-sharing and prosecutions against Southeast Asian scam networks

Thailand rules out security-tariff trade-off before Hegseth visit

August 17, 2026

Hegseth may visit Thailand to sign a new defence vision, while drone, cyber, AI and space cooperation remain under discussion

Thailand placed in Tier 2 of US transshipment report

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2026

A White House report puts Thailand in Tier 2, citing significant transshipment volumes and deep integration with China-linked supply chains

Trimmed down Cobra Gold exercises set for Feb 20 to March 5

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 04, 2022

The Thai-US Cobra Gold military exercises are set to kick off later this month until early March, but this time it will be of limited scale with the 10 observing countries being excluded due to the Covid crisis.

King and presidents

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2018

As part of the celebrations marking the bicentennial of the US and Thai relations, the curators of the upcoming exhibition “Great and Good Friends” Trevor L Merrion and William Bradford Smith will give a lecture at the Siam Society on March 13 starting at 7.30pm.

Have Thai-US ties reached a ‘new normal’?

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2015

“Diplomacy is a great business,” said a diplomat from the world’s most powerful country to representatives at a Young Southeast Asia Leaders’ Initiative, held recently in Bangkok.