TAC pins hopes on rural Thai expansion
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Total Access Communications, Thailand's second-largest mobile phone operator, said it intends to spend Bt30bn ($853m) to expand its network in rural areas over the next three years, in spite of political and economic uncertainties.
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ThailandÂs deposed prime minister seems to be having a better time than the generals who ousted him, who are struggling to control the country he left behind.
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Muslim separatists are intensifying violence in southern Thailand in hopes of a brutal government response that would boost foreign support for their aims, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Friday.
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The rules controlling the trade in many animal and plant species may change as delegates from around the world meet in Thailand.
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Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra says separatist militants in southern Thailand have received training in Malaysia.
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The ouster of ThailandÂs prime minister offers a chance for a new approach to an Islamic insurgency that has become nastier and more entrenched in recent years.
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Along a narrow country road in Aceh province, the wood frames and peaked roofs of five barracks  are beginning to rise from a marshy field. The Indonesian government plans to evict the few cows and goats grazing beside an  army camp within two weeks and welcome into the new structures about 500 Acehnese uprooted by the tsunami late last month.
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By Erica Curless, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Sep. 14--The battle over Kootenai County's rural lands continues tonight as two developers will ask to change the growth plan to allow megaprojects in the countryside.
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Around 50 Thai Air Force planes have taken took off to &quot;bomb&quot; the largely Muslim southern with paper birds as a symbol of peace for the restive region where
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Thai authorities plan to produce 100 million doses of bird flu vaccine to use on chickens, if an outbreak in the kingdom runs out of control.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - In a novel approach to peacemaking - and damage control - Thai warplanes dropped millions of folded paper cranes over the country's troubled southern provinces, expressing hope for an end to the separatist violence that has killed hundreds in the Muslim-dominated region.
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Thai business leaders and investors have welcomed their new premier amid hopes the military-backed leader will shore up confidence in an economy rocked by months of political crisis.
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There looks to be more room for healthy growth.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra  ordered security forces on Monday to become more pro-active in  their efforts to restore peace in the largely Muslim south,  where more than 500 people were killed last year.
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A decision by Thailand, one of Asia's prime agricultural producers, to allow open-field trials of genetically modified crops marks another milestone for the controversial products in the region, as governments ignore activists' concerns, industry analysts said Friday.
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By Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb. 15--Goodyear Thailand will spend 30 million baht to promote its new  line of pickup-truck tyres in Thailand.
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WiMax and a satellite connection are bringing broadband Internet access to a remote Vietnamese village.