BANGKOK, May 20 – The Lao PDR has been urged to assign more to work with the Thai Labour Department in verifying legal documents of its citizens applying for jobs in Thailand, a senior Thai official said today.

UTTARADIT, May 20 - The annual 'Amazing Durian' fair in this northern province will kick off May 31, attracting spiked a flow of fruit lovers and tourists to the province.

NARATHIWAT, May 21 – The hotel industry in this southern border province has been shaken by Saturday's bombing at the Asia Hotel in the town centre.

CHIANG MAI, May 20 – Thailand today asked Bangladesh to help verify the nationality of Rohingya ethnic people on its border with Myanmar.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra raised the issue during bilateral talks with her Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on the sidelines of the Second Asia-Pacific Water Summit.

CHIANG MAI, May 21 – Participants in the second Asia-Pacific Water Summit adopted the Chiang Mai Declaration in this northern Thai province on Monday, emphasising collective obligations regarding water management for the survival of all countries.

BANGKOK, May 20 – Thailand has targeted lessening its dependence on natural gas for electricity generating to less than 50 per cent and to boost consumptions of coal and renewable energy, according to the energy minister.

BANGKOK, May 20 - Thailand's Commerce Ministry conceded today that a downward assessment of this year export prospects is possible unless export performance improves in the second half of the year.

BANGKOK, May 20 – Thailand’s gross domestic product (GDP) forecast is lowered from 4.5-5.5 per cent to 4.2-5.2 per cent due to the disappointing Q1 economic growth of 5.3 per cent, below the previously forecast 6-7 per cent, a senior official said today.

ANGKOK, May 20 – Civil authorities in the Thai capital--City Hall--have vowed to take tough legal action against demonstrators who refused to move out of Sanam Luang after Saturday’s deadline.

CHIANG MAI, May 20 – Thailand and Georgia have agreed to strengthen the relationship between the two countries to contribute to their trade and investment cooperation.