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Accelerating the roll-out of digital and disruptive technologies while promoting a circular economy approach in key industries could generate up to US$3.4 billion per year through investment flows, savings and revenues for Thailand, according to a new World Bank Group report launched on Tuesday.

La Lanta Fine Art is hosting "Prophilia", the first solo exhibition in Thailand by renowned Vietnamese contemporary artist Richard Streitmatter-Tran, from Saturday to April 5.

It was at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics that Thailand's national taekwondo coach Choi Young-seok of South Korea first seriously entertained the idea of becoming a Thai citizen.

The government of Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is known to be infatuated with the idea of introducing a "Great Firewall" of its own to censor internet content.

Residential developer Frasers Property Home (Thailand) will shift to single detached houses and the upper-end segment as the pandemic has hit purchasing power of townhouse buyers and middle-to low-income earners.

The cabinet has approved waiving personal income tax for three foreign groups of taxpayers: high-income earners, retirees and those who want to work remotely from Thailand, said Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith.

Digital and disruptive technologies and development of a circular economy can earn Thailand up to 110.1 billion baht (US$3.4 billion) each year in additional investments, savings and revenue, the World Bank said on Tuesday.

Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) Sheikh Dr. Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa and an accompanying delegation visited Thailand on Monday at the invitation from the Thai government. Al-Issa met with Thai Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha.

The European Union imposed fresh sanctions against Myanmar’s military regime, focusing on a lucrative state-owned oil and gas company that has been a key source of revenue for the junta more than a year after the coup - and a partner of Thailand's PTT.

Once an importer of "boys' love" (BL) media from Japan, Thailand has now brought the genre full circle with its growing range of dramas themed on romances between impossibly beautiful young men.

Peace talks between the government and rebels from southern Thailand will resume in Malaysia on March 7, according to a report in the Star newspaper, citing the facilitator for the negotiations.