BANGKOK (Reuters) – Nine-year-old Thai kickboxer Pornpattara “Tata” Peachaurai is eager to get back in the ring after coronavirus curbs brought his fight season to a halt more than five months ago.

Millions of Thais have been plunged into poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic as unemployment has reached record levels, experts say. As many as 800,000 became impoverished last year as the country’s ...

This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of inflation in Thailand. For that aim, the paper uses rich micro-survey data on 46,000 Thai households to study the effect of the recent elevated ...

Boxing is a national passion in Thailand, offering a path to the Olympics and lucrative careers in a country with one of the world’s widest income divides. By Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono ...

Meet World Bank Thailand experts in our new video series #ExpertExplains where our goal is to help you understand some of the biggest issues in Thailand today by asking our colleagues to explain what ...

Thailand heads to the polls for a general election on 3 July. HelpAge’s East Asia Pacific regional team is using this opportunity to draw attention to shortcomings in the major parties’ social ...

The ranks of people in Thailand who live in dire poverty is likely to rise to 15 million, in a nation of 69 million, by next year because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which has battered the ...

Thongpoon PK Saenchai grew up as the youngest of five children in Maha Sarakham, located in Northeast Thailand's poorest region. While his parents worked as traders in Bangkok trying to earn enough ...