Thailand is considering proposing a Schengen-like zone in Southeast Asia to attract more high-spending tourists to the region, Bloomberg reported on Saturday.

IFP - While a huge number of media outlets across the world put all their focus on the recent rescue of 12 little boys from a cave in Thailand, the Saudi-led coalitions slaughter of Yemeni children on a daily basis sparks no significant reaction from the world. On 23 June 2018, twelve members of a junior football team, aged 11 to 17, and their ...

IFP - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says Iran is really pleased that the recent operation in Thailand led to the rescue of 12 teenagers trapped in a cave. In a Thursday message to Thailands Foreign Ministry officials, Qassemi said Iranian people shared the Thai nations concern about the fate of the teenagers, and watched ...

Tasnim Iranian Vice President Mohammad Baqer Nobakht is in Thailand to attend the 74th meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). Nobakht, who is also head of Irans Plan and Budget Organization, is going to deliver a speech to the ESCAP meeting at the United Nations Conference Centre in ...

IRNA Iran's Junior Muay Thai Team grabbed three gold and three bronze medals during international competitions held in Thailand. Sajjad Sattari, Mohammad Reza Chabok and Saeed Ekwampour won gold medals on the final day (Thursday) of the competitions in Bangkok while Amir Hossein Zolfi, Hossein Abdi and Hassan Mahmoudzadeh had received three bronze ...

Press TV - Iran's team has claimed the AFC U-20 Futsal Championship title after defeating Iraq 2-0 in Bangkok, Thailand. The victory was Irans 7th straight success at the tournament, an imperious run of form that leaves the country proud owners of both the U-20 and senior AFC Futsal Championship crowns. Sahand Rezapour opened the scoring ...

IRNA | Mohammad Babaei: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif received credentials of the newly-appointed ambassadors to Tehran on Monday including envoys from Benin, Thailand and Malaysia.    

Thailands King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the worlds longest-reigning monarch, has died at the age of 88, casting uncertainty over the SoutheastAsian states political future. His Majesty has passed away at Siriraj Hospital peacefully, the Royal Household Bureau said in a statement on Thursday, adding thathe died at 15:52 local time(0852 GMT). The ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has attended Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) summit in Thailand, in the last leg of his Southeast Asian tour, on Monday.     By IRNA

TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) Speaking at the 2nd Asia Cooperation Dialogue Summit on Mon. in Thailand, President Rouhani stressed Irans aim to play a more active role in the Asian-European transportation network and become a new hub in rail, air and sea transportation in West Asia. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addressed the second Asia Cooperation ...

Bangkok, Oct 9, IRNA Visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was officially welcomed by the Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Sunday. Thailand is the last station of Rouhani's three-nation Southeast Asian tour that started from Vietnam on October 5. After Vietnam, the Iranian President visited Malaysia. After the national anthems of the ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 08 (MNA) President Rouhani, in the last leg of his Southeast Asian tour, left Malaysia for Thailand on Saturday. The trip has so far taken him to the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi as well as Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur; it has been scheduled to conclude in Thailand. During his visit to Hanoi on Thursday, he held talks with ...

An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale has hit north-central Myanmar, the US Geological Survey says, with tremors felt in neighboring Bangladesh, India and Thailand as well. The quake, whose epicenter was about 145 kilometers (90 miles) west of the city of Meiktila, and relatively deep at 84 kilometers (52 miles), struck Chauk, a town ...

A string of bomb attacks have left at least four people dead and over 20 othersinjured across Thailand, security sources say. According to local Thai police officials, the casualties came after nine powerful bomb explosions rattled the resort town of Hua Hin and the southern provinces of Trang and Surat Thani over the past 24 hours. There ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says extremism and insecurity cannot be contained in a single locality, country or continent. Speaking at the Thai Foreign Ministry in Bangkok on Friday, Zarif described how the world today has transformed into a globalized environment where nothing can be confined to a particular location. He ...

Bangkok, March 10, IRNA Iran believes that all-out regional cooperation is an important and basic approach to fight against terrorism and extremism, visiting Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday. Zarif made the remarks while addressin the 14th Asia Cooperation Dialogue Ministerial Meeting in the Thai capital. He said ...

Bangkok, March 10, IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took part in the 14th Asia Cooperation Dialogue Ministerial Meeting started in the Thai capital on Thursday. Zarif is due to hold talks with senior Thai officials on the sidelines of the Bangkok meeting. An expert meeting of the 14th Asia Cooperation Dialogue was held on Wednesday....

(CNN)-Somali pirates successfully attacked an Iranian and a Thai fishing vessel over the past 24 hours, although one crew escaped, an anti-piracy expert said. There were another two unsuccessful attempts this month. In March, another two vessels, both Iranian, called the Jaber and the Siraj, were captured just off the Somali coast. The crew of ...

Toyota has announced that it will begin shipping cars from its Thailand-based assembly lines to Iran, according to a new report from a local automotive website. Asre Khodro reports that the Japanese auto producer has chosen its Thai-based production line and will begin exporting fully-built vehicles to Iran in the coming weeks. The report says ...

Tehran, Sept 11, IRNA - Iran finished third at the 45th Asian Weightlifting Championships in the Thailand city of Phuket on Friday. China and Thiland stood top and second on 516 and 510 points respectively while Iran won 499 points. The fourth to sixth titles went to Kazakhstan, North Korea, and Taipei China. Due to the devastating earthquake ...