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Climate, sustainability, and conservation across Thailand and the region
Thailand has set up a 24-hour command centre and mobilised six ministries after record rainfall triggered flash floods in Nan province, affecting more than 16,000 people across seven subdistricts.
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Suvarnabhumi Airport officers intercepted 126 live reptiles, including 88 ball pythons, hidden in two international parcels falsely declared as dried fruit snacks and bound for the Philippines.
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Thailand's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has warned Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai of flash flood risk after heavy rain swelled rivers and reservoirs in the North, though officials say water levels remain within manageable limits for now.
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Global news and world affairs
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul will visit New Zealand from August 20 to 22, marking 70 years of diplomatic relations and formally launching a new Thailand-New Zealand strategic partnership aimed at tripling two-way trade by 2045.
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Thailand and Myanmar have agreed to raise bilateral trade to US$12 billion and reopened the Second Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, as the two governments signed three agreements covering labour, water quality and space technology cooperation.
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US Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby met Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul in Bangkok, with Thailand affirming its 193-year alliance with Washington will not be used as leverage in ongoing trade negotiations.
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Football, Muay Thai, motorsport, and badminton from Thailand and beyond
Competitors at HYROX Bangkok 2026, held August 13 to 16 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, complained online about smelly, visibly unclean sandbags, calling on organisers to improve equipment hygiene.
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Thailand defeated the Philippines 1-0 through a late Waris Choolthong goal to move to nine points from three matches in Group B of the 2026 ASEAN Championship, putting the War Elephants on the verge of the semi-finals.
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Thailand face the Philippines on Tuesday night in the 2026 ASEAN Championship Group B, looking to extend their unbeaten start and move closer to the semi-finals.
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AI, innovation, and the digital economy shaping Thailand and beyond
Thai employees are using generative AI at more than twice the global average, new Microsoft data shows, as the country posts the second-fastest AI adoption growth worldwide.
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Thailand has launched Quantum Club Thailand, a national platform giving researchers cloud access to more than 26 quantum computing systems worldwide without a single quantum processor on Thai soil, aiming to position the country as ASEAN's quantum hub.
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Thailand's CE-7 MATCH device, the country's first locally built scientific instrument bound for the Moon, will fly aboard China's Chang'e 7 spacecraft when it launches on August 24, joining a lunar south pole mission years in the making.
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Culture, film, music, and nightlife across Bangkok and beyond
Markets, trade, and financial developments across Thailand and the region
Thailand's Finance Ministry plans to finalise new excise tax rules by September, offering lower rates to carmakers with local factories while raising taxes on fully imported vehicles, as Toyota, Honda and Mitsubishi press for policy changes.
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Thailand's economy expanded 1.9 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2026, slowing from 2.8 percent in the first quarter, though officials raised the full-year growth outlook to between 2.0 and 2.5 percent.
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More than 300 police and officials raided Koh Samui, uncovering 60 illegal nominee businesses worth an estimated 1.2 billion baht and arresting 14 foreigners, in the seventh phase of a wider nationwide crackdown.
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SM Classics Live 2026 reimagined three decades of SM Entertainment hits through a full orchestra at Mahidol University, with Red Velvet's Wendy as guest vocalist and musicians saying the show reshaped how young Thai audiences see classical music.
AGIBOT and VST ECS launched a humanoid-robot partnership in Thailand as Amity Robotics raised $7 million to expand its own physical AI fleet.
Thailand welcomed 16.21 million foreign visitors from January to early July 2026, down 3.11% year-on-year, as tourism officials look to the summer travel season to help close the gap.
