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The Finance Ministry will seek cabinet approval to require financial institutions to contribute 0.001% of their deposit base to a fund tasked with promoting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).A legal amendment is needed for the contribution requirement, and the fund is expected to receive 100 ...

Khon Kaen has been chosen to be the government’s model smart city for other provinces to learn from. Last Saturday (Oct 13), Khon Kaen hosted the Smart City Expo 2018, an event designed to showcase a variety of projects aimed at achieving the goal. Known as ...

Political parties formed under the new law are allowed to collect only seed funding from founding members and membership fees from all members, the Election Commission (EC) and junta leader Gen Prawit Wongsuwan reaffirmed, following the Future Forward Party (FWP) controversy.Keep reading ...

The Equitable Education Fund (EEF) has recommended a new budget-allocation approach for the country’s education sector, after extensive research confirms inequalities “rage on” despite massive expenditures.Keep reading ...

Authorities have stopped 243 Thai citizens departing for South Korea in the past month where they were planning to work illegally, said Labour Minister Adul Sangsingkeo. The 243 were part of a group of 279 people stopped under suspicion of travelling abroad to work unlawfully. ...

Sustained trade tensions could slash Asia’s economic growth by up to 0.9 percentage points in coming years, the International Monetary Fund said, urging policymakers in the region to liberalise markets to offset the fall in export sales.Keep reading ...

The Thai government is pushing ahead with plans to increase the incomes of 1.3 million farmers who have been relying on their rice crops to make a living.Keep reading ...

Item 10 on the United Nations’ (UN) list of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is to reduce inequality by 2030. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) called income and gender inequality a growing global problem. The World Economic Forum (WEF) estimated it would take 217 years ...

Everyone around the world is becoming aware of artificial intelligence (AI) or robots because their ability is constantly developing and they are likely to replace many jobs in the near future.  What is the situation in Thailand? Are workers losing their jobs? Does Thai labour ...

The Ministry of Science and Technology’s procurement of the 7.8-billion-baht THEOS-2, an earth-observing satellite, is all above board, according to a special committee responsible for probing an allegation of conflict of interest surrounding the project. Keep reading ...