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Thailand’s Pot Boosters Battle Bid to Delegalize Cannabis

Thailand made it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana for medicinal purposes in June, but calls are mounting to relist the plant as a narcotic.

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Kingdom to sign carbon transfer deal

Thailand recently announced it will participate in the Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMO), a legal agreement between any two countries to market greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation outcomes.

Bangkok Post

Visa waiver, sports to lift Saudi travel

Thailand is hoping to boost tourism cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including offering visa exemptions and promoting Muay Thai after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, according to the Tourism and Sports Ministry.

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True open to reallocation of matches

True Corporation has no objection to the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) reallocating a quota of football World Cup matches.

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Nation can be hyperscale data centre base

Thailand can be at the forefront of the hyperscale data centre sector in Asean after global tech giants Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to set up cloud infrastructure hubs in the country, according to Vertiv, a global provider of equipment and services for data centres.

Bangkok Post

Thai agriculture needs a shake-up

Startups have succeeded in disrupting so many business sectors in Thailand. Why not in agriculture yet?

Bangkok Post

Daughter feared going to jail after parents sued her for violating a bizarre law

The woman, 31, was facing prison after she refused to give her parents the equivalent of £1,400 to help them open up a business in Thailand and they decided to sue her

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Thai marijuana boosters rally to keep drug decriminalized

Around 200 backers of Thailand’s liberalized marijuana regulations have rallied in Bangkok to protest the possible rollback of the drug's recent decriminalization

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Inside Katie Price and Carl Woods' rocky romance as cheat allegations tear them apart

As Carl Woods uploaded a bombshell announcing his split from Katie Price, we look back at the couple's rocky romance since the pair began dating in 2020

Daily Mirror

One killed, 30 injured in southern Thailand car bombing

The attack was in a police compound in Narathiwat, a border province witnessing a decades-long uprising.

Al Jazeera

Car bomb kills one, hurts nearly 30 in southern Thailand -police

At least one person was killed when a car bomb exploded inside a police compound in southern Thailand on Tuesday, a police official said.

Reuters

Protest lodged over match allocations

The Association of Digital Television Broadcasting (ADTEB) is standing firm on its criticism of the Sports Authority of Thailand's (SAT) allocation of World Cup 2022 matches, which it had previously blasted for being unfair.

Bangkok Post

Power of AWS partners to accelerate ASEAN’s digital transformation

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud provider, and an Amazon.com company, has vowed to assist public sector customers in pursuing their smart city journey through support of innovative solutions by its partners.

Bangkok Post

Cambodian rice beats Hom Mali for top spot

A fragrant rice variety from Cambodia beat Thailand's Hom Mali rice to win the title of World's Best Rice 2022 at a global conference on rice held last week in Phuket, the Rice Exporters Association said on Monday.

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New Covid travel fears

Tourism operators are closely monitoring Covid flare-ups in many countries as the situation may interrupt travel sentiment during the upcoming high season.

Bangkok Post

Three summits jointly boost centrality

Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand with distinctive styles of leadership and diplomatic finesse have succeeded in performing the most difficult somersault in international relations by uniting concerned parties from all sides over the Ukraine war to agree to disagree and then agree to agree. Bravo to the trio of Asean members…

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Get your digital needs at Impact

"Connecting You With Global Tech And Digital Community" is the theme of "DigiTech Asean Thailand 2022", which will take place at Impact Exhibition Centre's Building 7, Muang Thong Thani, from tomorrow to Friday daily from 10am to 5pm.

Bangkok Post

Preserving heritage

Field recordings of ancient, traditional music in the Southeast Asia feature in this column. Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand – Kantrum Dongman (Animist Records, 2022) covers the traditional music of "Northern Khmer" people in provinces like Surin, Buri Ram and Si Sa Ket that straddle the Thai-Cambodian border in…

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Get tough on footy betting

As the World Cup 2022 kicked off in an air-conditioned Qatar stadium on Sunday, so did football betting across Thailand -- which, despite being illegal, has unfortunately become a part of the country's football culture.

Daily Record

Katie Price warned more surgery ‘could lead to death’ as loved ones begs her to stop

Former Love Island star Carl is reportedly 'scared' after the 44-year-old was recently spotted leaving a cosmetics clinic in Thailand.

Daily Record

British dad trapped in Thailand with flesh-eating disease after 'scorpion' bites leg

Alan Stephenson has seen the horrific disease strip the skin between his foot and knee leading to him potentially needing his leg amputated.

Bangkok Post

Cathay Pacific set to boost flights to Bangkok, holiday destinations in Thailand

Cathay Pacific Airways will boost the number of flights to Thailand's capital and the country's holiday destinations, as the airline aims to play a bigger role in Hong Kong's bid to seek closer ties with other countries in the region, the group's chairman has said.

Bangkok Post

Embassy in Nepal arranges for return of 2 Thai hikers' bodies

The Thai embassy in Nepal is coordinating with Nepalese agencies to send the body of two female trekkers back to Thailand, a Thai Foreign Ministry official said on Monday.

Bangkok Post

Hong Kong leader John Lee tests positive for Covid after returning from Apec trip

Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu has tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from a trip to Thailand for a high-level regional trade summit.

Wales Online

73-year-old stuck in Thai hospital and could lose leg after scorpion sting

Alan's family are trying to get him home where doctors say they could save his leg

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