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PM orders govt to cut power use by 20% as fuel crisis deepens
Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered all government agencies to reduce their energy usage by 20 per cent as Thailand struggles with the fuel price crisis.Prayut said the Energy Ministry had proposed several measures to reduce energy usage, government spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said on ...
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Ministry confirms revising criteria for administering Covid booster dose
The Ministry of Public Health recently confirmed it had changed the formula for administering booster doses of the Covid-19 booster vaccines.There have been discussions on social media on whether the ministry had actually changed the formula. The Anti-Fake News Centre Thailand investigated this issue on ...
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BOT predicts inflation fallout from Russia-Ukraine war
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) expects Russian banks’ removal from the Swift international transaction system to trigger a rise in inflation, volatility of the baht against the dollar and limited impacts on Thai trade and investment in Russia.“However, Thailand’s financial stability is still in good ...
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Justice Ministry helps restructure household debts amounting to Bt921.6 million
The Justice Ministry has helped 4,130 people settle debts of Bt921.65 million at the first “Festival for household debt settlement”, held at the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre on Friday and Saturday.Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said on Monday that the event was a “success”.Somsak ...
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Govt agencies make moves to tackle oversupply of fruit, slump in prices
The government and private agencies are taking steps to manage fruit harvests from March onwards in a bid to tackle oversupply and dropping prices.Chantanon Wannakhajorn, secretary-general of the Office of Agricultural Economics, said the agency’s teams have devised management plans by surveying farmers, exporters, cooperatives, ...
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Ministry aims to declare Covid-19 an endemic in four months
The Public Health Ministry aims to relegate the Covid-19 from a pandemic to an endemic in four months, it announced Thursday.Dr Kiartiphum Wongrachit, the ministry’s permanent secretary, said the goal is to make the change in four months.Kiartiphum said he had learned from epidemiologists that ...
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Economic recovery to be slow amid Covid crisis, global energy prices, rise in product costs: BOT
Thailand’s economy is expected to recover gradually but still faces difficulties due to the Covid-19 crisis, global energy prices and the increasing cost of products and services, the Bank of Thailand (BOT) reported on Wednesday.It said recovery in each economic sector is different, and it ...
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Thai GDP exceeds expectations with 1.9% rise in 2021 Q4
Thailand’s economy performed better than expected in the fourth quarter of 2021, expanding 1.9 per cent year on year, according to official figures on Monday.Reuters had forecast a 1.4 per cent expansion from October to December.Meanwhile gross domestic product (GDP) for the whole year rose ...
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Thai agricultural products enjoying export growth spurt
Thailand’s agricultural product exports grew 17 per cent last year despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the Office of Agricultural Economics said.Chanthanon Wankhajorn, secretary-general of the Office of Agricultural Economics, said exports of Thai agricultural products from January to December last year were valued at Bt1.3 trillion, ...
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Labour Ministry agrees to hike minimum wage from Bt336: source
The government is set to approve a sharp rise in the minimum wage from Bt336 to a flat rate of Bt492, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.Coming just two years after the previous raise, the expected hike would mainly benefit labourers. However, ...
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