The Bangkok World was an English-language daily newspaper in Thailand founded in February 1957 whose first editor was Mr. Darrell Berrigan, a United Press correspondent in Asia, and Far East correspondent for The Saturday Evening Post.

It replaced the newspaper Liberty, founded by the Thai publishing magnate, Mr. Manit Vasuvat (Thai: นาย มานิต วสุวัต), which was published between 5 September 1945 and 29 December 1956.

[1][2][3][4] From its inception until early spring 1970, the Bangkok World was owned by Ital-Thai, a large construction company, of which General Phao Siyanon, who hired Darrell Berigan in 1957 to become editor of the Bangkok World, was a major shareholder.

Ital-Thai sold in 1970 "a large interest in the enterprise" to Time Inc. whose resources enabled the paper to buy news presses and printing equipment.

[5][6] In 1971, the Bangkok Post and the Bangkok World were merged; The Post serving as the morning newspaper and The World as the afternoon paper.