A nascent recovery is underway in Thailand following the COVID-19 downturn. Ample policy buffers, underpinned by judicious management of public finances, allowed the authorities to implement a ...

BANGKOK: Around 200 ethnic Karen people fled fighting ... which borders Thailand, with local ethnic militias battling the military junta that seized power in a 2021 coup. Four years of conflict ...

the poverty rate was 5.4 percent in urban areas (home to 0.8 million poor people) and 8.6 percent in rural areas (home to 3.1 million). The distribution of poverty was uneven across geographic regions ...