News about Thailand

BANGKOK (Oct 18): Discussions will be held to add Malaysia in the list of low-risk countries where fully vaccinated visitors will skip the 14-day mandatory quarantine when entering Thailand.

BANGKOK (Oct 8): Thailand mall operator Siam Piwat Co Ltd has selected Malaysian retail giant Pavilion Group for its first international venture as Malaysia remains an attractive market despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

BANGKOK (Sept 28): Thailand’s largest property owner, the State Railway of Thailand (SRT), is targeting to monetize its 44,000 hectares of land across Thailand to offset its decades of losses worth 40 billion baht (RM4.

BANGKOK (Sept 25): Thailand aims to administer up to  a million doses of vaccines a day to ramp up its Covid-19 vaccination drive amid plans to reopen key tourist destinations to fully-vaccinated travellers.

BANGKOK (Sept 11): Thailand will roll-out its mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccination plan as early as October as the kingdom fights its worst COVID-19 outbreak.

BANGKOK (Sept 3): Thailand is to start giving booster jabs of Covid-19 vaccines to 3 million vaccinated people, as early as end of this month.

BANGKOK (Aug 23): Thailand's tourism hotspot Pattaya may delay its planned reopening to vaccinated travellers on Sept 1, as the city is dealing with insufficient vaccinations among locals and a spike in new infections, Xinhua reported.

BANGKOK (July 31): Thailand’s resort island of Phuket (pictured) will ban domestic travellers from other provinces in the kingdom from 3-16 Aug, to curb further spread of COVID-19.

PETALING JAYA (June 16): The plan to reopen the popular tourist island of Phuket in Thailand could serve as an example for other holiday destinations in Asia to relax their borders and attract visitors, said Banyan Tree Holdings executive chairman Ho Kwon Ping in an interview with Bloomberg on June 14.

BANGKOK (March 3): Since Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the trading of real asset tokens this month, a few Thailand developers and real estate firms are mulling the digital fundraising option by launching their own real estate-backed tokens, Bangkok Post reported.