Nongluck Ajanapanya
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Beijing envoy says the Middle East gulf war is now Southeast Asia’s problem (opens the original)
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BANGKOK – Some 6,000 kilometres separate the anchorage off Hormuz from a petrol station forecourt in Nonthaburi. In 2026, that distance has counted for very little. On Friday, 25 September, Zhai Jun, Special Envoy of the Chinese Government on Middle East Issues, stood before delegates at the 17th FutureChina Global Forum and made the connection explicit. The conflict convulsing the Gulf, he argued, is no longer a regional security file. It is a Southeast Asian economic emergency arriving by sea,
Dirty air is costing Thailand almost 4% of GDP a year (opens the original)
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BANGKOK – New research puts PM2.5’s annual cost near 4% of GDP, as campaigners warn political delay is now a bigger threat to growth than the smog itself. Ask an economist to put a price on Bangkok’s haze, and the number is startling: US$45.3 billion a year, or 3.89 per cent of Thailand’s GDP, according to a World Bank assessment that ranks the country 20th worst out of 180 for the health costs of PM2.5 pollution — the second-heaviest burden in Southeast Asia after Indonesia. That figure, presen
The true price of the cloud: Inside Thailand's battle for water and power (opens the original)
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BANGKOK – The headlines across South-East Asia read like an economic renaissance: multibillion-dollar pledges, sprawling server farms, and a digital transformation drive reshaping the region’s economy. Investment applications worth more than 728 billion baht ($20 billion), spanning 36 data centre and cloud-service projects, piled into Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) before the agency halted new data-centre investment-promotion applications altogether in April 2026, as regulators moved to ge
AI demand boosts Thai digital sentiment despite soaring energy costs (opens the original)
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BANGKOK – Confidence across Thailand’s digital sector rebounded significantly in the second quarter of 2026, driven by an accelerating global boom in artificial intelligence (AI) demand and a competitive export environment, according to the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa). However, the state agency cautioned that volatile global energy prices and rising semiconductor costs continue to keep overall industry sentiment in negative territory. Releasing its Q2/2026 survey results on Tuesday (
Thailand denies using US military ties as trade bargaining chip (opens the original)
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BANGKOK – A government spokesperson denies foreign media reports that Bangkok plans to leverage defence ties, including Cobra Gold, in US tariff talks. The Thai government has firmly rejected foreign media reports alleging that Bangkok plans to leverage its long-standing military and security alliance with the United States as a bargaining chip in upcoming bilateral trade negotiations. Speaking on Wednesday, government spokesperson Rachada Dhnadirek dismissed claims that Thailand was preparing t
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