This month's Race of Champions motorsport event in Bangkok has been called off due to political upheaval in the Thai capital, organisers said on Monday.
Instead, Thailand's biggest entertainment company, GMM Grammy PCL, is putting together a private consortium to buy a 30 percent stake in Liverpool.
Teenage Thai Ratchanok Intanon won her first badminton world championship title when she upset Olympic champion Li Xuerui in the women's singles on Sunday to end China's decade of domination in the event.
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The 22-year-old Indian was steady throughout Sunday just as she had been all week. Trichat finished with a total of 9-under and was sole second while Frenchwoman Celine Herbin (69-72-67) was third at 8-under.
Thai Airways International, on Wednesday announced introduction of flights in Bangalore-Bangkok sector and said it had plans to launch flights from Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Jaipur and Kochi.
During the Thai prime minister's stay in India, the two countries are expected to sign an educational exchange programme agreement, besides exploring ways of enhancing cooperation in other fields.
A Thai court has ruled that Russian Arms Dealer Viktor Bout be extradited to the US to face trial for attempting to supply the Colombian militant group FARC with missiles.
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Sujet Salee is a Thai boxing champion with an impressive fight record, but the 29-year-old also stands out among his peers for another reason: he's blind.
An Indian-origin Thai banker will have to return to Thailand to face charges of embezzling USD 88 million (Rs 4,130 million) after the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday refused to hear his appeal against an earlier extradition order.
India crushed minnows Thailand by 74 runs to storm into the final of Women's Asia Cup
From show business to sports stories, you'll find plenty to keep you busy on OTT this week.
The note mentioned "domestic problems".
India's ties with Thailand will get a further boost with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit in Bangkok next week, but the long awaited FTA will not be signed during the trip aimed at elevating bilateral relations into a 'strategic partnership'.
A majority of the alien labor management committee members had agreed to prohibit pregnant foreigners from working in Thailand.
However, Birmingham Commonwealth Games bronze medallists Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand bowed out of the tournament after losing their opening women's doubles match in straight games.
Thailand's gold medal-winning golf team let their hair down with a shopping trip to Seoul on Monday, but behind the smiles and giggles the trio said they are deadly serious about their sport.
Defiant Thai protesters on Friday stormed the army headquarters, asking the military to back their six-day-old campaign aimed at toppling Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra even as she ruled out early elections.
Nikhat Zareen, Nitu Ghanghas and Manisha Moun marched into the quarterfinals of the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships.
Thai shuttler Bodin Issara has been suspended by his club Granular until the end of the year for his on-court punch-up with former doubles partner Maneepong Jongjit during Sunday's Canada Open final, local media reported on Saturday.
Manchester City suffered an embarrassing 3-1 defeat by a Thailand league all-stars side.
Lakshya Sen and Saina Nehwal made impressive starts at the Indonesia Masters Super 500 badminton tournament, advancing to the second round of men's and women's singles respectively with contrasting victories in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Unranked Thai player Jatuporn Nalamphun has been suspended for 18 months and fined $5,000 after being found guilty of betting on tennis matches and not cooperating with the investigation, the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) said. "The 22-year-old admitted to three breaches of... the (anti corruption) program, which prohibits betting on tennis matches, between July and November 2014," the TIU said in a statement on Wednesday. Jatuporn was suspended for six months and a fined $5,000 for the betting offences but was then handed a concurrent 18-month ban after being "found guilty of a further charge of failing to cooperate with a TIU Investigation". "The full and timely cooperation by participants in TIU investigations is of paramount importance in the efforts being made by the TIU to eliminate corruption in professional tennis," anti-corruption hearing officer Ian Mill said. Tennis is still reeling from widespread allegations of corruption in the sport and the independent review panel (IRP), which was launched last month, will take at least a year to complete its investigations.
Thailand maintained its supremacy over India, scoring a 2-1 victory in the second leg of the international football friendly at the Ambedkar stadium on Wednesday. The Thais had earlier won the home leg in Bangkok 1-0.
Doubles duo Sonchat and Sanchai Ratiwatana have made headway in top-flight tennis and serving the Thai treat at the 2008 Chennai Open.
An Iranian national was on Monday formally charged by the Thai police for his alleged role in last week's triple blasts that rocked central Bangkok in what is seen as a botched attempt to target Israeli diplomats.
The Council has appointed the country's four regional army chiefs as executive heads of their regions with power over civil servants.
The Thai police on Thursday said they have identified two more suspects in last month's triple explosions in central Bangkok.
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Bodin Issara was banned for two years by the Badminton Association of Thailand (BAT) for physical assault after his ugly on-court brawl with former doubles partner Maneepong Jongjit during the final of the Canada Open last week.
Sakshi notched a 5-0 unanimous decision win against Zhazira Urakbayeva of Kazakhstan to advance to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Boxing Championships
About 500 Thai police officials on Monday staged a rare protest to express their anger after dealing with months of violent anti-government protests and demanded the right to protect themselves instead of being left as "sitting ducks".
A Thai satellite has spotted hundreds of floating objects in southern Indian Ocean that could possibly be the debris of the crashed Malaysian plane, even as bad weather on Thursday grounded multination aerial search for the aircraft's wreckage.
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