Thailand’s tourism authority is partnering with a unit of China’s search engine giant Baidu Inc. to enhance the nation’s image as a safe travel destination and calm tourists unnerved over viral news about an alleged kidnapping of a Chinese actor.

Canada tariff talk, which strengthened the US dollar overnight. Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia underperformed.

Forty Chinese citizens who entered Thailand illegally after being "bewitched by criminal organisations" and were stranded in the Southeast Asian country were repatriated to China on February 27, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.

Sluggish economy and real estate slump at home signal end to wave of overseas investment Stephen Yao travelled from southern China’s Guangdong province to Thailand 32 times in 2017 and 2018 to help middle-class Chinese families invest in condominiums in Bangkok and Pattaya.

South Korea's suspended president defends himself at impeachment hearing. Taiwan blames China for disconnected undersea cable. Deadly bus crash in Thailand. Hong Kong plans deep cuts to civil service jobs.

A British tourist lost his cool while going through airport security before throwing a tantrum which allegedly caused cocaine to fall from his pocket. Marc Patrick Wharton, 42, had flown from Shanghai in China to the island of Phuket in Thailand when suspicious officers pulled him aside.

Canada and the United States offered to resettle 48 ethnic Uyghurs held in detention in Thailand over the past decade, sources told Reuters, but Bangkok took no action for fear of upsetting China, where they were covertly deported last week.

"Similar deportations have prompted violent retaliatory attacks in the past," a security alert posted on the embassy website said. "Most notably, in the wake of a 2015 deportation of Uyghurs from Thailand,

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday condemned Thailand's return of at least 40 Uyghurs to China, where Washington says members of the Muslim group have faced genocide.

China has assured Thailand that 40 Chinese Uyghurs it returned on Thursday (February 27) would be looked after, Thailand's defense minister said, confirming a secretive pre-dawn deportation that the United Nations and human rights groups condemned.

Thailand deported 40 Uyghurs to China despite appeals from the United States and from rights groups that feared they would be abused.