ByteDance's TikTok commits $8.8B for data centers in Thailand over 5 years, joining other tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in investing in the country's growing AI infrastructure.
Thailand’s tourism authority is partnering with a unit of China’s search engine giant Baidu Inc. to enhance the nation’s image as a safe travel destination and calm tourists unnerved over viral news about an alleged kidnapping of a Chinese actor.
Canada tariff talk, which strengthened the US dollar overnight. Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia underperformed.
Britain is trying to discredit China's policy in the northwestern Xinjiang region, a spokesperson at China's embassy in London said. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Thursday expressed strong disagreement over the repatriation of 40 Uyghurs to China from Thailand.
Forty Chinese citizens who entered Thailand illegally after being "bewitched by criminal organisations" and were stranded in the Southeast Asian country were repatriated to China on February 27, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
During Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s recent meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, one of the main topics of discussion was the proliferation of scam centers close to Thailand’s borders in Myanmar,
Thailand's government has repeatedly defended the secretive deportation, which came despite calls from United Nations human rights experts who said the Uyghurs would be at risk of torture, ill-treatment and "irreparable harm" if returned to China.
Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus is likely to visit China, Thailand, and Japan – respectively in March, April, and May as part of his global outreach efforts to strengthen ties and build stronger relationships across countries through cooperation and partnerships, officials said.
Canada and the United States offered to resettle 48 ethnic Uyghurs held in detention in Thailand over the past decade, sources told Reuters, but Bangkok took no action for fear of upsetting China, where they were covertly deported last week.
The Chinese embassy in Thailand has confirmed that a group of Uyghur men detained in Thailand for more than a decade have been deported to China.
Thai minister claims the possibility of retaliation from Beijing if the Uyghur refugees are sent to another country.