SINGAPORE, Nov 13 - Thai Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij said on Friday he did not see any financial contagion spreading to the rest of Asia from the political crisis in Thailand. He also said he...
BANGKOK, Aug 13 - Plans to submit a petition requesting a royal pardon for Thailand's fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra have renewed fears of an intensification of the country's four-year political crisis. The United...
SINGAPORE, Dec 2 - The Thai baht <THB=> fell to its lowest level in nearly two years on Tuesday and costs rose for protection against debt default as Thailand's deepening political crisis weighed on investor...
BANGKOK, Sept 10 - Thailand's plan to start gold futures trading by the end of September had been postponed to next year due to political turmoil, the head of the local futures exchange said on...
BANGKOK, Dec 11 - The global economic crisis and Thailand's political turmoil will probably cut the nation's economic growth to the slowest pace in eight years in 2009 before a modest recovery in 2010. A...
* Some investors see arbitrary government intervention * Could eventually lead to money flowing elsewhere * Investors may seek risk premium, raising business costs NEW YORK, May 7 - Political risk is becoming a growing...
KUWAIT, Feb 17 - A protracted political standoff in Kuwait is threatening a planned $5 billion economic stimulus package and hampering efforts to improve bourse regulation, making the Gulf Arab state unappealing to investors. In...
BANGKOK 鈥� Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was forced from office on Tuesday when a court ruled that he had violated the Constitution by accepting payments to appear on cooking shows while in office.
* Pricing risk of nationalisation, expropriation * Strong demand for insurance on heightened risk awareness * Resource project in Russia almost uninsurable * Heightened prospect of unrest from financial crisis LONDON, Nov 5 - Polit...
KARACHI, Nov 2 - Pakistani stocks fell sharply on Monday after a bomb blast in Rawalpindi killed 35 people and as fears of a political crisis loomed amid a government move to get a controversial...