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Aidan Jones
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
Aidan Jones is a Senior Correspondent on SCMP's Asia desk. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse.
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Whoever wins will become Thailand’s fourth prime minister in three years but face a daunting task to revive the economy and ease political gridlock.
Two Russians have been accused of murdering Mikhail Emelianov after his body parts were found across abandoned land near Pattaya.
Reformers, conservatives and populists face off in the coming election with lofty promises to fix the country’s economy and political system.
With the economy struggling and corruption rife, Thai voters will look to the February 8 election as a chance to turn the country around.
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Chinese visitor arrivals slumped by nearly 30 per cent last year amid concerns over safety, the border war with Cambodia and the strong baht.
Disenfranchised citizens and migrants dismiss the election as a meaningless exercise designed solely to validate the military’s iron grip.
The former leader was blocked from leading government and banned from politics after his party stunned the ruling elite in 2023.
Nations are likely to try to avoid early commitment while steering clear of outright rejection to minimise US retaliation, analysts say.
In eastern Thailand, 5,000 pigeons brave predators and exhaustion in a gruelling sprint for a US$2 million purse.
Amid public anger, PM Anutin issued an order to end two contracts and blacklist Italian-Thai Development after two crane disasters killed 34 people.
From US$2,000 for newborns to debt write-offs, Thai political parties are dangling a raft of handouts in a bid to woo voters on February 8.
The Senate can no longer pick the prime minister, opening a path to victory for the reformist People’s Party in the election on February 8.
Caretaker PM Anutin rides nationalist wave over Cambodia; Pheu Thai taps Thaksin’s nephew to revive brand; reformists drop key vows to stay relevant.
Analysts warn that conflict, power shortages and resource extraction under military rule are pushing Myanmar’s economy further into reverse.
As the country mourns the loss of Queen Mother Sirikit amid political chaos and a sluggish economy, Lisa’s global reign lights up Thai public.
The multiphase election, which the junta insists is ‘free and fair’, comes nearly four years after it took power in a coup.
The junta’s phased election starting on Sunday has been slammed as a ploy for its generals to stay in power.
Curfews, increased airport screening and the bombing of the province housing Angkor Wat have rattled foreign travellers.
As wealthy buyers seek penthouses with living-room supercar parking, struggling families battle banks to keep a roof overhead.
Thailand’s military said the coming election would not affect its operations against Cambodia amid a renewed border conflict.
Tens of thousands have fled their homes for the second time this year as Thailand and Cambodia trade heavy fire, leaving at least 10 dead.
Thailand says the F-16 strikes were ‘executed with caution’ against military targets to neutralise a threat to national security.
Authorities are seizing assets and raiding compounds, but analysts warn the clumsy crackdown is merely scattering syndicates to new hideouts.
Asia makes the chips driving the AI boom, but the technology threatens to erase jobs and widen the region’s wealth gap, a new UN report says.
It could become ‘everybody vs the People’s Party’ as old power networks unite to crush the movement that won the popular vote in 2023.
Thai rescuers struggle to reach communities outside urban areas as swathes of Thailand’s south and Malaysia’s north remain under water.
The navy will deploy an aircraft carrier and deliver meals to help those in the flood-hit south, amid public outcry over chaotic relief efforts.
Scores have died and entire communities displaced as a late-season monsoon surge overwhelms fragile flood-management systems.
The former prime minister was tried in absentia for the killing of hundreds of people during a student-led uprising last year.
