Daredevil and highly dangerous antics of the deceased in the swimming pool area on the 6th floor of his luxury hotel led to his fall and untimely death. Police are trying to understand why?

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/07/01/phuket-police-probe-australian-teenager-joshua-james-connell-daredevil-act/

Carla Boonkong reports from Phuket.

Reports suggest that the wound was either self-inflicted or an accident. A small packet of dried marijuana leaves and a lighter found by police at the scene is thought not to be linked to the man’s behaviour or how he sustained the injury.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/06/30/norwegian-frank-gjesvold-found-stabbed-at-pattaya-hotel/

News Desk report from Pattaya.

Kasikorn Research Centre predicts that there is enough capital in the financial system to meet short-term debt repayments, imports for 3 months and demand for local currency even as the baht is projected to depreciate past ฿36 to the US dollar in the coming months, a 15 year low while the Thai currency has held its own or even gained against other currencies such as the Pound Sterling and Euro.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/06/29/tourist-arrivals-surge-offsets-other-economy-ills/

James Morris reports from Bangkok.

Political instability in Thailand, cited by Fitch, the US ratings agency which retained Thailand’s BBB+ status last week, as one of the country’s greatest weaknesses and an impediment to its economic prospects, has not gone away. With the opposition parties surging in the polls and the likelihood of them attaining power growing, its spectre again looms large.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/06/28/senator-warns-about-thaksin-daughter-paetongtarn-shinawatra-as-pm/

Carla Boonkong reports from Bangkok.

Three soldiers were left hospitalised by the bomb attack but with minor injuries including an officer working within a local government building who was hit by shrapnel from the blast. The operation by insurgents saw a green garbage collection truck hijacked 3 km south in the Mayo district by the attackers who fitted it with a large explosive device and drove to a nearby car park close to a significant security checkpoint in the north eastern Panare district of Pattani on Monday night.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/06/21/insurgent-boss-fingered-in-pattani-bomb/

James Morris reports from Pattani province.

Original plans to deregulate cannabis, this year, were for it to be made freely available only for medical use and products with a strictly limited THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) value. This week, as authorities moved to pull back on the deregulation free for all while new legislative provisions that would make recreational use of cannabis illegal, are stalled, for now, in parliament, there are new concerns about its use in food products and on restaurant menus as its harmful effects are being highlighted.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/06/23/fears-over-recreational-cannabis-use-sexual-organ-cut-off/

Carla Boonkong reports from Bangkok.

Police investigating the horrific incident in a Bangkok suburb are beginning to look at the state of the officer’s personal relationships in an attempt to understand the motive behind Monday morning’s appalling murder-suicide tragedy where three lives were lost.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/06/20/murder-suicide-bangkok-police-officer/

News Desk report from Bangkok.

While the kingdom maintains a strong external financial situation and prudent fiscal management to support its economy, the growing impact of chronic problems such as household debt and a rapidly ageing population as well as inequality and political instability are undermining any prospect of decisive action to find a solution. The result is an economy that has now performed below its regional peers for years and one that, in the short term, faces a need to more rapidly raise bank interest rates to halt a decline in the baht.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/06/26/fears-for-the-baht-as-it-hits-a-15-year-low/

Joseph O' Connor reports from Bangkok

More charges are due to be brought against the 27-year-old call centre worker after evidence of at least 10 other underage victims was found on his phone and devices including a large throve of pornographic images of women and girls which the fiend used to place his prey in bondage through the use of blackmail. It is understood that the 27-year-old was using the images collected to distribute pornography online for a profit.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/06/24/pevert-blackmail-scam-led-to-girl-suicide/

James Morris reports from Pathum Thani and Bangkok.

Rapidly changing world financial environment where cash is king and looking like it is going to be more expensive as interest rates are set to rise inexorably. For Thailand, in the short term, this means raising interest rates to stop capital flight out of the kingdom and protect both business and the less well off from the ravages of higher prices which saw May’s inflation rate come in at 7.1% and more significantly, a rise in core inflation to 2.28% from 0.2% a year previously with the underlying rate set to spiral even higher on a systemic basis even though the headline rate may be somewhat lower later in the year.

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2022/06/19/world-inflation-crisis-prompts-higher-rates/

Joseph O' Connor reports from Bangkok.