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A repeatable starting point for your next country brief.

Find reported developments across the places you watch. Inspect the evidence, then add dated economic or infrastructure context to your own analysis.

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Connected-world illustration · the records and metrics below are captured API data.
SAVED API EXAMPLE
Captured 2026-09-25 · 2026-09-18 — 2026-09-24

What changed in the country or region I follow?

GET /api/v2/events
limit 3sort significancecountry THAcountry_match location

Set a country and a bounded time window. 3 records in this saved page.

Country filter: THA. Matches the reported location country.

01 / EVENT

Thailand issues THB25 billion sustainability-linked sovereign bond

Occurrence date inferred from publication. Verify the original reporting before treating it as the date the event happened.

On 2026-09-18, Thailand's Ministry of Finance issued the THB25 billion SLB425A sustainability-linked sovereign bond in the domestic market. The 15-year 8-month bond was initially targeted at THB15 billion, while orders reached approximately THB36.3 billion. Its KPIs include reducing net greenhouse-gas emissions to 152 million tonnes by 2035.

Location
Bangkok, Thailandnearby area
Classification
Fiscal Policy Action
Significance
0.44 model score · 0–1
Confidence
0.90 coding confidence · 0–1
Articles
1
Inspect the reportingwebwire.com ↗
02 / EVENT

Thailand Cabinet approves penalties for civil-service exam fraud

Occurrence date inferred from publication. Verify the original reporting before treating it as the date the event happened.

On 2026-09-22, Thailand's Cabinet reportedly approved a crackdown on civil-service examination fraud in Bangkok. The measure would expose perpetrators to criminal action and bar them from government employment, while officials involved could be dismissed. The title provides no further implementation details.

Location
Bangkok, Thailandnearby area
Classification
Impose Administrative Sanctions
Significance
0.44 model score · 0–1
Confidence
0.48 coding confidence · 0–1
Articles
1
Inspect the reportingmatichon.co.th ↗
03 / EVENT

Unidentified attackers kill assistant village headman in Yala ambush

Occurrence date inferred from publication. Verify the original reporting before treating it as the date the event happened.

On 2026-09-20, unidentified attackers reportedly ambushed and killed an assistant village headman in Yala, Thailand. The attackers reportedly burned his car, while authorities reviewed CCTV footage and pursued them. The actor attribution and date are inferred from title-only coverage.

Location
Yala, Thailandcountry or region
Classification
Attack
Significance
0.44 model score · 0–1
Confidence
0.48 coding confidence · 0–1
Articles
1
Inspect the reportingmatichon.co.th ↗
Use This Data Exact request · JSON · curl · Python · TypeScript

Captured 2026-09-25. These are the exact saved dates and identifiers. Running this request again can return changed results.

GET https://gdeltcloud.com/api/v2/events?date_start=2026-09-18&date_end=2026-09-24&limit=3&include_images=false&include_entity_images=false&sort=significance&country=THA&country_match=location
: "${GDELT_CLOUD_API_KEY:?Set GDELT_CLOUD_API_KEY}"
curl --fail-with-body --max-time 60 --get 'https://gdeltcloud.com/api/v2/events' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $GDELT_CLOUD_API_KEY" \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --data-urlencode 'date_start=2026-09-18' \
  --data-urlencode 'date_end=2026-09-24' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=3' \
  --data-urlencode 'include_images=false' \
  --data-urlencode 'include_entity_images=false' \
  --data-urlencode 'sort=significance' \
  --data-urlencode 'country=THA' \
  --data-urlencode 'country_match=location'

Pagination: this is one saved page. Follow the response’s pagination contract to retrieve additional pages; each request uses additional QU. Treat incomplete coverage as incomplete, including an empty result.

All requested dates were served in this capture. 7 served dates. Recorded examples are historical; current results may differ.

INSIDE THE EVENT RECORD

What happened. Who’s involved.
Why it deserves attention.

GDELT Cloud adds structured classification, actor roles, geographic precision and explainable Event metrics to the raw article stream. Here is what the API returned for one Event in this workflow.

CAMEOPLUS · EC03

Thailand issues THB25 billion sustainability-linked sovereign bond

Fiscal Policy Action · 2026-09-18

Reported location
Bangkok, Thailandnearby area
Occurrence date basis
publication day inference
Evidence returned
1 articles · 1 evidence sources · 1 supporting StoriesArticle volume is not a count of independent corroborations.
source actorMinistry of Finance of Thailand
target actorInvestors
LINKED IDENTITIESStandard Chartered ↗e_57c4e7f8191e6637
SCORES FROM THIS RESPONSE
Significance0.44 / 1

Prioritize within the returned feed.

Coding confidence0.90 / 1

How confidently the reporting was coded.

Magnitude4.0 / 10

Intensity on the event’s domain scale.

Systemic importance0.27 / 1

How much the wider system depends on the node.

Propagation potential0.36 / 1

Potential for effects to travel beyond the event.

Market sensitivity0.80 / 1

Exposure of traded claims to the development.

Model judgments for prioritization, not measured losses or calibrated probabilities. Compare magnitude within its event domain. Missing scores stay unknown.

Open the reasoning returned with these scores

Magnitude

Thailand issued a THB25 billion, 15-year 8-month sovereign sustainability-linked bond, a significant but not systemic fiscal financing action.

Systemic importance · interconnectedness

The bond attracted domestic and international capital, but no broad financial-system dependence is reported.

Propagation · transmission channel

The bond connects Thailand's sovereign financing to domestic and international investors and sustainability-linked capital.

Market sensitivity · economic effect

The sovereign bond was issued as a live funding instrument, creating an in-force debt claim with defined maturity and sustainability-linked KPIs.

Captured 2026-09-25 · Metric version v2-2026-07-24 · First Event in Start simpleMetric definitions and limitations ↗

THREE STEPS, A WORKING WORKFLOW

Choose your scope.
Inspect the evidence. Use the records.

01

Set a country and a bounded time window.

Dates, topics, places and classification are explicit request parameters.

02

Read the developments and their source evidence.

Keep original sources, model scores and coverage beside the result.

03

Add independently dated energy infrastructure.

Copy a request into your application. Start with one bounded page.

DATA BEHIND THIS WORKFLOW

Add energy infrastructure

GDELT Cloud codes Events and clusters Stories from the raw GDELT article stream. These structured records are GDELT Cloud outputs; GDELT’s own coded Events, themes and tone are not inputs.

Put reporting beside Global Energy Monitor facilities in the same country. The registry’s dates and capacity values stay visible, without implying that the reporting affected these assets.

These GEM facilities share the country research scope. This is country context, not evidence of a relationship to or impact from any individual Event.

Select “Add more context” in the saved demo to inspect the additional records ↑

SHAPED BY CUSTOMER USAGE

A paying regional advisory account uses country and date filters across Events and Stories for Southeast Asian research. Another paying account repeatedly queries Events near selected locations.

Based on observed recurring requests from paying accounts. This adapted demo is illustrative; the additional dataset combination is a possibility you can build, not a claim about the customer’s deployment.

WORK WITH WHAT YOU HAVE

Fill a gap.
Or build your first version.

Alongside your existing workflow

Complement your analysts, country watchlists and existing sources with reproducible retrieval and inspectable evidence.

From a blank page

Build your first regional research view in Explore and continue into the data menu for country indicators or infrastructure.

YOUR WORKLOAD, MADE EXPLICIT

Small start.
Room to build.

Model the whole retrieval workflow before you integrate it. Adjust polling, pagination, detail calls and additional context.

This estimate uses 30 days. Detail calls are 1 QU each; saved enrichment is charged once per run. Retries default to zero. It does not include other account usage.

330 QU / month330 requests including the retry allowance
Builder · $59/month

Lowest current public monthly plan covering these QU and required REST capabilities. 1,500 QU included.

Annual option: $590 billed yearly.

Hosted Monitors are separate: 3 capacity · daily minimum cadence. This calculator models API polling.

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REST + MCP

The demo is the beginning.
The API is the product.

Copy the captured request in curl, Python or TypeScript above. For an AI workflow, connect the GDELT Cloud MCP server and ask your client to use the same supported filters. Inspect the tool’s current schema before calling it; REST query names are not assumed to be MCP argument names.

Read the API and MCP documentation

GO DEEPER INTO THE DATA

Know what is behind each record.

Global Energy Monitor FRED economic series

Also explore GLEIF identity records, NGA World Port Index, Epoch AI and World Bank data in the data/API menu.

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