The smartest thing I did in Bangkok was to move from the Buddy Lodge on Khao San Road to the Oriental, which I selected because it has an author’s wing with Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, and Noël ...

THAILAND, A VOLATILE nation where foreign investors know too well that economic turmoil is no novelty, finds itself at an interesting juncture: one that perhaps offers lessons for the financial ...

The dramatic results from Thailand’s general election of July 3 have by now clearly indicating that regardless of the efforts of the elite, people will express their own opinions when it comes to ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It may be hard to believe now, as blustery generals run Thailand, the army busts ...

BANGKOK: Thai people are fed up with politicians and want to teach them a lesson as the referendum results see the country return to a half-baked version of democracy. Voters approved a junta-backed ...

Nick Bisley recently wrote in The Interpreter that mistrust between China and Australia is increasing. Could strategic trust between China and Australia improve if the two countries were to work ...

Fanaticism for Liverpool and Manchester United, a capital city clogged solid by traffic jams, and education reform being pushed at a giddy speed by a prime minister preparing to win another election ...