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New Delhi business newspaper economic times says that India and Thailand will sign a free trade agreement by the middle of this year, according to Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.See the rest here: Thailand to expand trade and investment with IndiaSectors linked to external demand (namely, ...

Many activities have been planned in Bangkok and other major provinces in celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year and to welcome the Year of the Dragon.This years Chinese New Year’s Day falls on January 23.Read the original: Thailand plans Big Celebration for Chinese Year of the ...

Thai police led Atris Hussein, a 48 year-old Lebanese man with suspected links to a Hezbollah to search a commercial building in Samut Sakhon province, adjacent to the capital, where they discovered chemical substances which could be used in making explosives.Follow this link: Terrorism in Thailand: the ...

The Mekong, one of the world’s major rivers, starting in Tibet and flowing through south China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, provides sustenance through irrigation and fishing to those living in its basin. But it also provides hydroelectric power through dams, three of which were built in ...

Author: Sandy Gordon, ANUSouth Asia is a vast region encompassing eight nations (if we include Afghanistan) and over one-fifth of humanity.It is difficult to do it justice in this short summary of the year’s events.Foremost among the region’s significant developments is the killing of Osama bin Laden in a US ...

Author: Bradley O. BabsonAt the moment of his accession to power, Kim Jong-il inherited the devastating impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the subsequent trade shock to North Korea’s economic output, the onset of the worst famine in modern history, and a humanitarian crisis that required a direct ...

Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul on Friday said the previous governments order rescinding ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatras passport has been revoked and the process to reissue the ousted premiers passport rests with the ministrys Consular Affairs Department.See original here: Thai Foreign Minister to issue new Thaksin PassportThailand’s ...

Author: Shiro Armstrong, ANU In President Obama’s landmark speech in Canberra last month, an over-riding theme was that the United States welcomes China’s rise so long as it plays by the global rules.Yet those rules are dynamic, and there is a need to have China involved in setting them given the ...