Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com BANGKOK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Domestic car sales in Thailand fell 17.2% in December from a year earlier and dropped 4.2% in the whole of 2021, due to coronavirus outbreaks and a shortage of microchips, the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) said on Monday. Car sales totalled 86,145 units in December and 759,119 vehicles in all 2021, slightly above target, the FTI said. In 2022, the FTI still forecasts car sales at 800,000 to 850,000 veh ...read more

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com BANGKOK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - A 49-year-old Briton was found dead at his home with knife wounds in western Thailand, and a Thai suspect was in custody, police said on Sunday. Another British man, 55, suffered injuries and was in hospital, police in Kanchanaburi province said, adding that further evidence was being collected. A Thai man was suspected of attacking the two with a rice sickle for drinking and playing music loudly, police sai ...read more

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Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com BANGKOK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Foreign investors may opt to move out of Thai bonds this year due to low returns, after holdings hit a record high in 2021 and with the prospect of the benchmark interest rate only rising late in the year, an industry body said on Wednesday. Foreign investors bought 144 billion baht ($4.31 billion) of Thai bonds last year, with foreign holdings hitting a record level of about 1.03 trillion baht ($30.85 billi ...read more

The logos of Nippon Steel Corp. are didplayed at the company headquarters in Tokyo, Japan March 18, 2019. Picture taken March 18, 2019. REUTERS/Yuka Obayashi Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com TOKYO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Japan's Nippon Steel said it will buy two electric arc furnace steelmakers in Thailand in a deal worth up to $763 million, as it seeks to cut its reliance on blast furnaces that use coking coal and emit carbon dioxide. The deal on Friday by Japan's bigges ...read more

This long-exposure image shows a trail of a group of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites passing over Uruguay. Photo: Mariana Suarez (Getty Images) SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to know if Tongan residents would like him to save them from their potentially month-long internet blackout. The small pacific island nation was the site of a horrific volcanic eruption last weekend that caused mass evacuations, widespread electricity loss, and a nationwide internet outage resulting from ...read more

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Legal offices of the Goodwin Procter law firm in Washington, D.C., U.S. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Sean Greaney represented HyperDraft while he was at Goodwin Software startup's CEO and COO are former Goodwin lawyers The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide u ...read more

Refugees, who fled a flare-up in fighting between the Myanmar army and ethnic minority rebels prepare, as they are voluntarily returning across the border to Myanmar, at a pier in Mae Sot district, Tak province, Thailand, December 19, 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com MAE SOT, Thailand, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Thailand has sent over 600 Myanmar refugees who fled fighting between the military and ethnic rebels back across the border, a ...read more