PRIME Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said while travelling from Chengdu, Sichuan, to Beijing at 3.45 p.m. local time (an hour ahead of Thailand) today (July 19) that four major Chinese tech companies are ready to invest over 70 billion baht in Thailand creating tens of thousands of jobs, PPTVHD36 said. This follows successful discussion between
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Thai PM boosts trade ties with China’s Sichuan province
THAI Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul held talks with Mr. Wang Xiaohui, secretary of the Communist Party of China for Sichuan province in Chengdu today (July 18) with both sides agreeing to upgrade cooperation in trade, investment, science, technology, innovation, tourism, and local-level cooperation in concretely connecting the Thai economy with the western Chinese market,
Read moreThai PM urged to ask Chinese leader to not deliver more tanks to Khmers
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAI RUAM PALANG MP Wasawat Poungponsri today (July 17) advised Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to ask Chinese President Xi Jinping to suspend delivery of a supplementary batch of Chinese-built, main battle tanks to Cambodia for the sake of Thailand’s border security reasons. The elected lawmaker/secretary-general of the splinter opposition party
Read moreRussian man held for smuggling cannabis at Phuket Airport
JUST a day after a Belgian woman was arrested at Phuket Airport for attempting to smuggling over 31 kilogrammes of cannabis out of the country a Russian man too was apprehended on similar charges after over 17kg of cannabis flowers and resin were found in his baggage, Amarin TV said this afternoon (July 8).
Read more2 Chinese members of surrogacy ring nabbed in Pattaya
TWO Chinese nationals wanted in their homeland for being key members of an illegal surrogacy ring were arrested at a Pattaya hotel today (July 5), TV Channel 7 said. A police team from the Central Investigation and Immigration bureaux apprehended Mr. Yan, 43, and Ms. Mi, 33, and revoked their permits to stay in
Read moreChina has delivered 39 T-59D tanks to Cambodia: Diplomat
CHINA today (June 9) confirmed that 39 T-59D tanks have been delivered to Cambodia with this being the first batch of 93 being sent to the neighbouring country as part of an annual military cooperation programme, Naewna newspaper said. Chinese Military Attaché Maj. Gen. Zhang Linhong unexpectedly paid a visit to the Defence Ministry
Read morePaying Chinese yuan instead of Thai baht for meals in Huai Khwang being probed: PM
AFTER A Chinese influencer who speaks Thai shared a video clip revealing that he was asked to pay for a meal at a restaurant in Bangkok’s Huai Khwang district in Chinese yuan not Thai baht went viral online Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said officials are already monitoring this situation, Workpoint TV and Amarin TV
Read more4 Chinese loan shark gangsters arrested in Chonburi
FOUR Chinese members of a ruthless Mafia gang who are wanted on charges lending money at an exorbitant interest rate and torturing their victims if they were unable to clear their debts were arrested in Chonburi for overstaying and all will now be deported to their home country, Naewna newspaper said today (May 30).
Read moreChina pushes Thailand to fully probe arrest of policemen in kidnapping its citizens
THE Chinese embassy urged Thai authorities to conduct a transparent investigation into the arrest of four policemen and a civilian on charges of kidnapping and detaining five Chinese citizens at a house in Sa Kaeo province emphasising the impact of this case on bilateral relations, Amarin TV and Thai News Agency said this evening
Read moreEarthquake hits southwest China; thousands evacuate, buildings collapse
By Agencies and published by CNA BEIJING: A magnitude-5.2 earthquake in China’s southwest region of Guangxi early on Monday (May 18) killed two and forced more than 7,000 in the city of Liuzhou to evacuate as search and rescue operations continue and authorities warn of transport disruptions. There were two confirmed deaths with one
Read moreTrump leaves Beijing with few wins but warm words for Xi
By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News BEIJING – US President Donald Trump left China on Friday (May 15) with no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end his Iran war, despite two days spent heaping praise on his host, Xi Jinping. Trump’s visit to America’s main strategic and economic rival,
Read moreUS and China seek to repair damage from tariff war that sent trade into a freefall
By AP and shared by Yahoo!News WASHINGTON – During a tumultuous 2025, the United States and China proved how much they could hurt each other in a trade war. Now Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are meeting in Beijing to repair some of the damage. A decade of conflict between the world’s two
Read moreRare earth mining is poisoning Mekong River tributaries, threatening ‘the world’s kitchen’
By Anton L. Delgado and Aniruddha Ghosal, AP, and published by Yahoo!News Chiang Saen, Thailand – Perched on the bow of his long-tail fishing boat, 75-year-old Sukjai Yana untangled a handful of small fish from his net, disappointed by his catch and fretting over whether he can sell them. Some days Yana earns nothing:
Read more2 Chinese men rob gold shop after running out of money while holidaying in Thailand
TWO young Chinese men who spent all their money while holidaying in Thailand were caught in Bangkok last evening (April 27) after robbing a gold shop in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), PPTVHD36 said today. The two suspects, identified as Mr. Zhou Qintao, 27, from Guangdong province, and Mr. Song Haolong, 19, from Sichuan province, were
Read moreChina offers to mediate in Thai-Cambodian conflict
VISITING Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul that his country is ready to mediate in the Thai-Cambodian conflict with Khmers no longer wanting to fight with Thailand, PPTVHD36 said this afternoon (April 24). The Chinese minister, who had visited Cambodia before coming to Thailand, said the Khmer stance towards Thais
Read moreIndian, Chinese tourists conned and robbed in Pattaya
AS THE global economy is in a shaky state thieves are more numerous than mosquitos with two tourists, one from India and the other from China, having been conned and robbed by seemingly the same group of perpetrators in Pattaya, TV Channel 7 said today (April 9). CCTV footage at this seaside city shows
Read morePolice probing mysterious death of Chinese woman
THAI police are unravelling the mysterious death of a Chinese woman who was found dumped in a ditch at Ratchaburi after working as an entertainer at a pool villa party in Pattaya with her boyfriend having flown here from China to follow up on the case, TV Channel 7 and Workpoint News said today
Read moreChinese men held for smuggling drugs in perfume bottles
SOLDIERS and police today (Mar. 5) arrested two Chinese men and their Thai driver at a petrol pump in Kanchanburi province just as they were getting ready to smuggle drugs hidden in luxury perfume bottles to Myanmar, Amarin TV said. Acting on a tipoff that the two Chinese men at a petrol pump in
Read moreChinese man threatens to shoot influencer over placing containers at Thai-Cambodian border
TROUBLE flared up at Thai-Cambodian border in Trat province today (Feb. 7) after Thai troops placed containers supplied by a social media influencer with this enraging Cambodians and Chinese in the area with one of the latter threatening to shoot the influencer, PPTVHD36 said this evening. The “Army Military Force” Facebook page posted a
Read moreWanted murder suspect arrested 30+ years later in Thailand
A HONG KONG murder suspect wanted under an Interpol Red Notice and hid in Thailand for over three decades has now been arrested in Bangkok and will be deported, Naewna newspaper said last night (Feb. 4). Immigration police arrested Mr. Mui, 62, for the offence of being a “foreign national residing in Thailand without
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