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  • Thailand’s export growth expectations revised down to just 3% in 2019

    Thailand’s export growth expectations revised down to just 3% in 2019

    “Export trends are aligned with global sentiment and the outlook for other Asian countries, making export prospects murky because of the escalating trade war.” The government is massively revising down their export growth targets to just 3% this year from an earlier 8% growth estimate.

  • Vote for new Thai PM on Wednesday – Democrats and Palang Pracharat still at loggerheads

    Vote for new Thai PM on Wednesday – Democrats and Palang Pracharat still at loggerheads

    The countdown is on to next Wednesday’s vote for a new Thai PM.

  • Bus plunges off mountain road in Phrae, Thailand, 17 injured

    Bus plunges off mountain road in Phrae, Thailand, 17 injured

    17 passengers have been injured after a bus crashed off a mountain road in Thailand’s north last night. The bus was travelling between Chiang Mai to Phrae in Thailand. The accident happened in Tambon Bor Leng Long, Phrae. The accident happened at 8.30pm on the Den Chai-Lampang road.

  • Thailand Events – June 2019

    Thailand Events – June 2019

    with The Sponsorship Experts – Paul Poole (South East Asia) June kicks off with the tail-end of one of the largest trading shows in the food industry in Asia, the THAIFEX – World of Food Asia 2019 .

  • Japan’s Nissin Electric moves production to Myanmar from Thailand

    Japan’s Nissin Electric moves production to Myanmar from Thailand

    Nissin Electrics of Japan are building a new plant in Myanmar, which will shift some of their production from factories in Vietnam and Thailand, in an effort to cut labour costs. Nissin Electrics manufacture gas insulated switchgears, capacitors, transformers, instrument transformers and medium-low voltage metal enclosed equipment. Bangkok Post reports that the company announced it will form a joint venture with Hosoda Holdings, a Japanese trader acting as Nissin’s sales agent for the Myanmar market, in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone on the outskirts of Yangon in June, with plant operations scheduled to start in March 2020.

  • Thailand’s Phu Kradueng National Park to close until September 30

    Thailand’s Phu Kradueng National Park to close until September 30

    Chief of Phu Kradueng National Park, Sombat Phimprasit says that the park will be closed from now until September 30. The park is in north-east Thailand, near Loei and just south of the Laos border. The park chief says the annual closure, during Thailand’s rainy season, is because trekking and trailing will be too tough and risky due to the difficult terrain.

  • Top Five things to consider when buying condos in Thailand

    Top Five things to consider when buying condos in Thailand

    Straight-talking about buying condominiums in Thailand from Desmond Hughes from Hughes Krupica … One of the most commonly read or spoken summary of foreign ownership of property in Thailand is along the lines of “Foreigners can buy a foreign freehold condominium in their name”. At this sentence, many foreign investors switch off, and assume that the rest of the detail provided by the author may be legal mumbo jumbo or a thinly veiled attempt to win their business. In fact, there is quite a lot you should know about Thai condominiums, before you start property hunting

  • Bali’s Mount Agung erupts again

    Bali’s Mount Agung erupts again

    PHOTO: Twitter/Phoebs A week after flights were cancelled in and out of Bali’s airport, Mount Agung has burst into life again today at 11:42am sending plumes of ash into the Balinese sky. Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center said the eruption lasted for 8 minutes Despite the renewed activity, Mount Agung remains on level alert level three,  or “standby” status, and officials have not changed the exclusion zone around the volcano, which remains at a 4 kilometre radius. Click HERE to see Mount Agung erupting this morning

  • Six vehicles damaged, one person injured, as truck swipes parked cars in Phuket

    Six vehicles damaged, one person injured, as truck swipes parked cars in Phuket

    PHOTOS: เป็นปาก เป็นเสียง Six vehicles parked on Yaowarat Road, Old Phuket Town, have been damaged after a truck has swiped them as it was driving down the road. A pedestrian on the footpath was also injured in the incident

  • King Power wins duty free and shopping management contract for Suvarnabhumi

    King Power wins duty free and shopping management contract for Suvarnabhumi

    In Friday’s biggest surprise (please say in sarcastic tone whilst rolling eyes) King Power Suvarnabhumi has won the bidding to manage the commercial area at Suvarnabhumi International Airport with the highest offer, AOT senior executive vice president Vichai Bunyu said this morning. The winner will be approved on June 12, he said. Earlier this year the AoT (Airports of Thailand) said they had been instructed by the government to open the long-standing contract to new tenders