Thai Company Reinstates Burmese Workers after Protest

Charoen Pokphand (CP), Thailand’s largest food manufacturer, agreed on Monday to reinstate more than 160 Burmese workers it had fired from a seafood-processing plant in Mahachai, Samut Sakhon Province, after workers staged a protest on Sunday.

The company, which employs some 2,000 legally registered Burmese workers, also agreed to stop using subcontractors to hire new employees,

Thai travellers told to avoid smog-hit Singapore

The Thai Embassy in Singapore has issued a travel warning for Thais, suggesting they avoid travelling to the island state, which has been hit hard by the smog crisis.

The warning comes as Singapore suffers the highest levels of air pollution in 16 years.

Thai threat to pre-season plans

Pattaya FC successfully won an injunction that prevented a vote of the Football Association of Thailand (FAT) taking place at the weekend which should have confirmed amendments to their rules in line with FIFA requirements.

Buddhist monks arrested over Thai child sex abuse claims

Two Buddhist monks who allegedly organised acts of child sexual abuse have been arrested by Thai police, the latest controversy to hit a clergy struggling with challenges to its clean-living image.

Police in Chang Mai, in northern Thailand, said they had detained two monks for procuring a 14-year-old boy to perform sexual acts with an abbot. The alleged perpetrator was to be arrested as soon as a warrant was obtained, they said.

Tablets thrust Thai classrooms into digital era

In a rural classroom in the Thai highlands, hill tribe children energetically slide their fingertips over tablet computer screens practising everything from English to mathematics and music.
The disadvantaged students are part of an ambitious scheme by the kingdom to distribute millions of the handheld devices in its schools in a move supporters hope will boost national education standards.

Fueled by cheap credit, two Thai tycoons spend $27 billion on acquisitions

A flood of cheap credit is shaking the foundations of Thailand’s roaring economy. One telling sign: two Thai billionaires have spent $27 billion on mostly overseas acquisitions over the past year, more than what Thai firms overall have spent on deals in the past three years.

Insight: Big debts loom over Thai tycoons’ bold bets

(Reuters) – Two Thai business tycoons, one a politically connected Chinese speaker, the other the son of a street vendor, have spent $27 billion on acquisitions in the past year, mainly abroad – more than all Thai firms spent overseas in the previous three years.

The billionaires – 74-year-old Dhanin Chearavanont and Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, five years his junior – personify

S.E.C. Freezes Assets of Thai Trader in Smithfield Inquiry

Another international deal appears to have an insider trading problem.

The Securities and Exchange Commission froze the assets of a trader based in Bangkok on Thursday, as it investigates a supposed insider trading scheme tied to the sale for $4.7 billion of Smithfield Foods to a Chinese meat processor.

Thai Spring to target Thaksin online

The Thai Spring group is set to launch an anti-government Web page called Thai Spring Forum as a venue to hold regular online meetings, before calling on supporters to stage rallies when the time is right.

The group, led by Vasit Dejkunchorn, a retired police general, and former senator Kaewsan Atibodhi,

Lyman Good ready for next Bellator fight after victory in Muay Thai

Stepping out of your comfort zone is never easy, whether in sports or outside of athletics. At Warrior’s Cup XVII this past weekend, former Bellator MMA welterweight champion Lyman “Cyborg” Good did just that, competing in his first Muay Thai fight.

“This is some thing I have always shined in, especially in my MMA fights,” Lyman said as to why he decide to compete in a Muay Thai bout.