Yes, Thailand is getting one. Here's Bangkok Post.
Equatorial countries are best situated to send stuff into stable orbits. Thailand is... almost equatorial. Also Narathiwat (6 °) doesn't have too much land east of it. Sarawak, Brunei, and Mindanao being the lands of concern.
Another, more serious concern is that this latitude is Muslim, which Bangkok isn't. I can easily see provincial shakedown artists screwing with the launches. Like how Hawaiians muck up astronomy on Mauna Kea.
Australia of course has been doing British, Canadian, and American space stuff for decades.
On topic, I do wonder where Indonesia is getting in on this. Since (I hear) they're shifting operations to the eastern shores of their isles already. There is/was a Bahasa NASA, if you will; but last I heard they were folding that into some "Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional". UPDATE 7/16: Ah, they are building spaceports: Biak and Morotai.
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