President Barack Obama has written a private letter to North Korea leader Kim Jong-il, presented by U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth to North Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju on Dec. 9 during his visit to the North.
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When Tassaporn Ratawongsa, a 42-year-old radiologist arrived for work at a private Bangkok hospital recently, she expected to see her patients.
Suvadee Sukkasem is still searching for her son who vanished when the Indian Ocean tsunami turned this tropical paradise into a mass grave for thousands of Thais and foreign vacationers nearly five years ago.
Thai investigators said Tuesday they have found mass weapons including rocket-propelled grenades, components for surface-to-air missiles and other armaments seized from a plane setting off via North Korea.
A Thai court on Monday extended the detention of the crew of a seized cargo aircraft loaded with 35 tonnes of arms from North Korea as its unscheduled arrival in Bangkok stirred questions over illicit-weapons trade.
Thai security forces seized more than 35 tonnes of arms from a cargo plane and arrested five crew members after the aircraft made an emergency landing to refuel at a Bangkok airport, officials said on Saturday.
Thousands of supporters of former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra rallied in Bangkok on Thursday, turning up the heat on Thailand's embattled government ahead of big protests planned for January in a push for new elections.
True Corporation PCL TRUE.BK, Thailand's only integrated telecoms firm, said on Tuesday it expected its 2009 revenue to rise less than 5 percent from last year due to the weak economy
Thailand's aging monarch addressed the nation on Saturday for the first time since hospitalization more than two months ago, marking his 82nd birthday with a call for calm in the politically turbulent country.
PTT PCL, Thailand's top energy firm, said on Wednesday its sixth gas separation plant would start operations in early 2010 as planned after a court ruling in favour of the group.
Thailand's stock market .SETI ended 3 percent higher on Tuesday as investors bought energy big caps .SETEN and banks .SETB on hopes of an early, favourable conclusion to a court case that has halted some industrial activities.
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Thailand's top listed television broadcaster, BEC World, said on Monday it expected its 2009 net profit to be lower than the 2.8 billion baht ($84 million) earned in 2008 due to the weak economy.
Thailand's natural gas demand is expected to rise 10.6 percent in 2010 to 3.95 billion cubic feet per day due mainly to growing demand from petrochemical plants, PTT PTT.BK, the country's sole gas supplier, said on Monday. Domestic gas consumption in 2009 should grow by around 3.3 percent to 3.57 billion cubic feet per day, Permsak Shevawattananon, senior executive vice president for PTT's gas business, told reporters.
Airports of Thailand (AOT), the country's main airport operator, reported a worse-than-expected fourth-quarter net loss on Monday, hit by foreign exchange losses and higher operating costs.
Thailand's long-awaited auction of third-generation mobile phone licences could take place in the second quarter of 2010 rather than the first as suggested by regulators, two mobile phone operators said on Thursday.
China must be alert to any mutation or changes in the behavior of the H1N1 swine flu virus because the far deadlier H5N1 bird flu virus is endemic in the country, a leading Chinese disease expert said.
Thailand's Eastern Water Resources said on Tuesday it expected its net profit to rise 40 percent in 2009, better than analysts' forecasts, thanks to lower costs and a price increase.
Private equity firm Middle East & Asia Capital Partners Pte (MEACP) plans to introduce a sharia-compliant investment vehicle to its clean energy fund to attract Islamic capital, a company executive said.
Malaysia has awarded a commercial bank license to Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country's biggest bank, Malaysia's central bank said on Friday.
Mitsubishi Fuso, the Japanese unit of market leader Daimler Trucks, aims to weatherproof the company for smaller volumes in the future in order to steer clear of the losses it will book this year.
