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Twenty-one years after the 2004 tsunami almost wiped out Ban Nam Khem, the small fishing village is coping with changing ...

The smartest thing I did in Bangkok was to move from the Buddy Lodge on Khao San Road to the Oriental, which I selected because it has an author’s wing with Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, and Noël ...

THAILAND, A VOLATILE nation where foreign investors know too well that economic turmoil is no novelty, finds itself at an interesting juncture: one that perhaps offers lessons for the financial ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Less than a year after Thailand’s much criticised auction of 3G mobile data spectrum, the country is putting ...

The dramatic results from Thailand’s general election of July 3 have by now clearly indicating that regardless of the efforts of the elite, people will express their own opinions when it comes to ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It may be hard to believe now, as blustery generals run Thailand, the army busts ...

Nick Bisley recently wrote in The Interpreter that mistrust between China and Australia is increasing. Could strategic trust between China and Australia improve if the two countries were to work ...

Regardless of coups: Thailand's Economic Time has not improved. We all are surprised at the sudden coup. Not that we did not see problems in Thailand's politics: everyone has, as they have in Korea, ...

For all the strides former minnows Philippines have made on the regional stage over the past 15 years, Monday provided the opportunity for them to have something substantial to show for their progress ...