Residential property prices in Thailand will rise between five and ten per cent this year.

Starting in March, UK passport applications in Thailand are to be processed in Hong Kong

The travel industry is pinning its hopes on healthy customer spending at the Thai International Travel Fair 2010, which it says will reflect demand and confidence in Thai tourism in 2010.

Bangkok remains among the five cheapest locations for office costs in the world, according to a survey by the Singapore-based international property adviser DTZ Debenham Tie Leung.

Bangkok as the best tourist destination and Bangkok as a metropolis where people live and work should not be mutually exclusive.

Thai stocks fell by 0.52% as most Asian markets closed lower over concerns about the impact of proposed US banking reforms.