Ho Chi Minh City surpasses Bangkok in Global Financial Centre rankings
Ho Chi Minh City 15:27 30/09/2025Ho Chi Minh City ranked 95th out of 120 cities on the recently released Global Financial Centres Index 38 (GFCI 38), up three places since the March 2025 assessment, surpassing Thailand’s Bangkok for the first time.
Massive sinkhole in Bangkok street forces evacuations
World 16:44 24/09/2025A portion of a busy road in Thailand's capital caved in early Wednesday, leaving a hole dozens of meters deep in front of a main hospital and forcing people nearby to evacuate.
Thailand's hippo Moo Deng draws crowds at first birthday bash
World 15:46 11/07/2025Thailand's baby pygmy hippo and internet sensation Moo Deng celebrated her first birthday on Thursday, devouring a massive tropical fruit platter alongside her mother as throngs of adoring fans turned up for her four-day party.
'Fear and anxiety': Bangkok residents seek quake-proof homes
World 13:19 07/04/2025Shaken hours earlier by a massive earthquake, Phatsakon Kaewkla's terror was magnified when he came home to find gaping cracks in the walls of his 22nd-floor Bangkok apartment.
Why did Myanmar earthquake cause tremors in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City?
Vietnam News 17:55 28/03/2025The effect on both cities was relatively weak
Thai Vietjet to launch semi-commercial flights from Saigon to Bangkok next month
Economy 13:59 31/12/2020Air travel between Vietnam and Thailand has been suspended since March
At regional meeting, Vietnamese FM says China’s actions in East Vietnam Sea ‘erode trust’
Vietnam News 17:02 01/08/2019Beijing’s actions seriously threaten the legitimate rights of coastal countries, erode trust, and worsen tension, thus hurting peace and stability in the Southeast Asian region
Vietnamese food wins hearts of Thai consumers at Bangkok expo
Economy 13:03 19/08/2017Vietnamese goods, especially foods, being promoted at an expo in Bangkok are well received by Thai customers
The container village migrants oiling Thailand's economy
World 14:13 25/10/2015This eye-catching complex on the outskirts of Bangkok is unlikely to win any architectural awards
Thai police hunt more suspects after Bangkok bomb arrest
World 16:28 30/08/2015Authorities said police were monitoring about 1,000 mobile phone numbers and checking photographs used in some 200 seized passports to track down members of an unspecified group they believe orchestrated the Aug. 17 attack on a Hindu shrine in Bangkok
