Tag: Thailand

(Australia/Thailand) Behind the Australia–Thailand Strategic Partnership (John Blaxland, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/01/27/behind-the-australia-thailand-strategic-partnership/

(Thailand) Canals and Land Bridges: Mega-Infrastructure Proposals for Southern Thailand (Termsak Chalermpalanupap, ISEAS)

The idea of a canal across the Isthmus of Kra in Southern Thailand, or the Kra Canal, prevalent in the eighteenth and nineteenth...

Thailand’s slow economic recovery (Juthathip Jongwanich, East Asia Forum)

Thailand’s economic performance in the third quarter of 2020 showed promising signs of recovery amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The contraction in GDP fell to...

THAILAND – Thailand mulls tougher curbs amid fears of second COVID wave (Al Jazeera)

Health authorities in Thailand have recommended tougher restrictions on businesses and people’s movements in 28 provinces, including the capital, Bangkok, as the number of...

THAILAND – Thailand needs normal politics (East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/28/thailand-needs-normal-politics/

THAILAND – Thai youth protests undercut political establishment (Kevin Hewison, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/27/youth-protests-undercut-thailands-political-establishment/

THAILAND/DIGITAL ACTIVISM – #WhatsHappeningInThailand: the power dynamics of Thailand’s digital activism (Elise Thomas, Tracy Beattie and Albert Zhang, ASPI)

Thailand's political discourse throughout the past decade has increasingly been shaped and amplified by social media and digital activism. The most recent wave of...

THAILAND/SPACE PROGRAM/CHINA – Thailand’s space program drifts out of China’s orbit (Hadrien T Saperstein, East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/12/thailands-space-program-drifts-out-of-chinas-orbit/