Bloomberg Thailand will hold a general election on March 24 for the first time since a coup in May 2014. The date was set by the Election Commission in Bangkok on Wednesday, a few hours after a royal decree was issued authorising the poll. Voting will take place under a military-backed charter, ending one of the longest periods of rule ...

Bloomberg Russia showed foreign envoys a missile that’s at the centre of a dispute with the US over a landmark nuclear treaty, as Moscow mounted a diplomatic offensive against Washington’s plans to withdraw from the pact. US demands for the elimination of the 9M729 missile are “unacceptable,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in a televised briefing for foreign ...

Bloomberg Writer and former Chinese diplomat Yang Hengjun, who is now an Australian citizen, has been detained by the Chinese government, according to one of his friends. Yang boarded a flight from New York to the southeastern Chinese city of Guangzhou and was scheduled to arrive on Saturday, Feng Chongyi, an associate professor in China studies at the University of ...