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Indian passport holders starting January 1, 2025, while the existing 60-day visa exemption for Indian travellers will remain in effect. Applicants, non-Thai nationals, must apply for all types of visas at the website https://www.thaievisa.go.th. Each application can be applied by (1) the applicants themselves or (2) other representatives. ALSO READ: Simplest hack for a cheap New Year's trip-go abroad

Hyderabad by the Delhi police on Saturday for forcing several youngsters from India to commit cyber crimes through fake call centres on the promise of getting them jobs abroad after a 2,500-km chase. The accused, Kamran Haider alias Zaidi, carried a reward of Rs 2 lakh on his information by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Zaida, along with his associates, trafficked vulnerable young Indian men to the Golden Triangle Region in Southeast Asia, where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet, and force them to work in Chinese companies. Then, their passports would be taken away and they would be forced into cyber crimes.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Forget semiconductors or artificial intelligence—one of the year’s hottest stocks has fur and plastic eyes and comes from China. Pop Mart has turned cute collectible toys into treasure, and you might see more of its shops around if its overseas expansion goes according to plan.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last week, chef Garima Arora made Indian culinary enthusiasts proud. For the second consecutive year, her fine-dining spot, Restaurant Gaa in Bangkok, received two Michelin stars.

Swiss Re Institute report «Changing climates: the heat is (still) on», the Philippines and the US are the most economically vulnerable among 36 countries analyzed. This vulnerability is driven by the increasing severity of weather-related catastrophes like floods and tropical cyclones.

Venue : Tin Kwong Road Recreation Ground Namibia Women squad - Jurriene Diergaardt, Edelle Van Zyl, Merczerly Gorases, Sylvia Shihepo, Yasmeen Khan, Sune Wittmann, Kayleen Green, Mekelaye Mwatile, Wilka Mwatile, Irene van Zyl, Victoria Hamunyela Thailand Women squad - Naruemol Chaiwai, Aphisara Suwanchonrathi, Rosenan Kanoh, Nannapat Koncharoenkai, Suwanan Khiaoto, Chanida Sutthiruang, Nattaya Boochatham, Phannita Maya, Suleeporn Laomi, Sunida Chaturongrattana, Thipatcha Putthawong Namibia Women vs Thailand Women Match Details Match 1 of Women's T20I Quadrangular Series in Hong Kong, China, 2024 between Namibia Women and Thailand Women to be held at Tin Kwong Road Recreation Ground at 07:00 AM.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A deluge of cheap Chinese goods washing over the developing world is jacking up tensions between China and the Global South, complicating Beijing’s plans to build alliances as it confronts escalating trade tensions with the U.S. With President-elect Donald Trump saying he plans to significantly increase tariffs on China, Beijing is hoping to unload more of its excess factory production to developing-world countries, from Indonesia to Pakistan to Brazil.

Lalit Modi, the visionary founder of the Indian Premier League (IPL), has disclosed that his abrupt exit from India in 2010 was triggered by life-threatening warnings from underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Speaking on Raj Shamani’s Figuring Out podcast, Modi said: “I did leave the country when there was a death threat to me. There was no legal case to start with. Dawood Ibrahim made the threat to me first after IPL-1 because I was also anti-corruption. I didn’t allow any… I was a very strict anti-corruption commissioner.”

Air India Express will start flights to Bangkok from Surat and Pune from December 20, making Thailand's capital its 15th international destination. Besides, the Tata Group carrier will commence services to Dimapur (Nagaland) and Patna (Bihar). With these new cities, the airline will be connecting a total of 51 cities across India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. «Operations to Bangkok will commence on 20th December 2024, with direct flights connecting Surat and Pune to the vibrant capital of Thailand. Additionally, the airline strengthens its domestic network with the launch of services to Dimapur and Patna, offering daily direct connectivity between Dimapur and Guwahati, and Patna and Bengaluru and Hyderabad,» the airline said in a release on Wednesday.

Ven Ajahn Siripanyo, the only son of Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan, renounced his claim to a $5 billion empire to embrace a monastic life. Ananda Krishnan, one of Malaysia’s wealthiest individuals, owns a business empire spanning telecom, satellites, oil, real estate, and media.

Moo Deng to the captivating cuteness of Ava, Thailand is becoming a hotspot for adorable animal phenomena. Moo Deng, the pygmy hippo from Khao Kheow Zoo, has captured the world’s heart, with her ever-growing fanbase, memes, merchandise, and even songs dedicated to her. However, it looks like Moo Deng may have some competition in the cuteness department. Enter Ava, the golden tiger cub from the Chiang Mai Night Safari, who is now stealing the spotlight and winning over netizens worldwide. Ava is a rare and stunning example of a golden, or strawberry, tiger—a breed that gets its unique golden fur from recessive genes. These tigers are extremely rare, with fewer than 100 believed to exist globally.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's economic performance improved significantly among emerging markets’ (EM) peers, driven by a remarkable rebound in exports. Despite a tumultuous stock market and the depreciation of the rupee, the country's growth was fuelled by a 17% year-on-year increase in exports in October, marking a sharp recovery after months of sluggish performance.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: US President-elect Donald Trump’s pre-election threat of stepping up import tariffs could translate into an opportunity for India to capture a larger share of the US market in the medium term as it could accelerate the re-orientation of global supply chains away from China, federal policy think tank NITI Aayog member Arvind Virmani said in an interview. Trump had proposed during his campaign an additional 10% import tariff on all goods imported into the US and a 60% tariff on goods from China.

free trade agreement in goods in February, the commerce and industry ministry said Saturday, adding that the fourth round of the negotiations was concluded here this month.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chef Gaggan Anand calls his travels around the world his “best R&D". For him, travelling is less about checking off touristy places, and more about discovering new tastes, flavours and ingredients.

Japan's Tokyo is seeing foreign men now flocking to Tokyo for “sex tourism” as against the tradition of Japanese men travelling to foreign lands for it, reported The Star. “Japan has become a poor country,” he told This Week in Asia at the organisation’s offices. Nearby, in a park that’s become synonymous with the city’s sex trade, young women wait for customers before the sun has even set. Tanaka’s organisation noticed an increasing number of foreigners frequenting the park as soon as pandemic-era travel restrictions were dropped. This influx has coincided with a troubling rise in teenagers and women in their early twenties turning to the sex industry to survive alongside an alarming increase in violence.

World Trade Organization (WTO) India’s quality control orders (QCO) on various products including medical textiles, footwear and viscose staple fibre, and certain measures which restrict its import of copper, wooden boards and tyres. These issues came up at a meeting on market access in WTO on Wednesday. Last year, Canada, Japan, the UK and the EU had raised concerns at India’s QCOs terming them protectionist. “Some new trade concerns pertaining to India’s QCOs were raised at the meeting,” said a Geneva-based official.

Two Australian tourists are being treated in Thailand for suspected severe alcohol poisoning after apparently consuming tainted drinks in neighboring Laos

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A decade ago in Chennai, bars were the exclusive prerogative of five-star hotels as they needed to sell rooms to serve liquor. Gradually, stand-alone cafés, restaurants and bars opened around town.

After two days of meetings in Lima that rarely ventured beyond platitudes in discussing the strategies of the region’s major economies, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum wraps up with a spirit of detente that many fear the annual summit may n...

Goa are particularly prone to a kind of reporting. Journalists or social media influencers come on a holiday. They hang out in a resort, go out to a few restaurants, shop in a few places, meet a local friend and speak to their taxi drivers. Then they string together their peeves or “new” discoveries, and a tourism trends story is born. Have to justify the time off, right? Some of the disgruntled posts that triggered the recent spat over the apparently declining state of tourism in Goa are right out of this playbook, with added moralism. “The problem with Goa is that it became rich without much effort,” declared a particularly pompous post. Tourists complaining about tourism-linked problems show a profound lack of self-reflection. Meanwhile, comparing a small state in India with countries like Sri Lanka and Thailand will yield inaccurate perspectives. Nothing is helped, though, by the reliably wrong-headed responses of the Goa government. LOOK CLOSER The data doesn’t show Goa being “down in the dumps”, as a social media post alleged. According to Noesis, a leading hotel investment and advisory firm, Goa’s tourism is gearing up for a landmark year in 2024, building on the momentum of a strong 2023 recovery. Domestic arrivals are projected to top 8.5 million, while foreign visitors may touch pre-pandemic levels, potentially exceeding 500,000.