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Student Fund targets Bt34 billion in new loans
The Student Loan Fund is targeting fresh loans of Bt34 billion to both new and previous students, although debt payments this year have tended to decrease from the expected Bt32 billion to around Bt20 billion, manager Chainarong Katchapanan said.More than Bt10 million has so far ...
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BOT worried as baht continues upward streak, vows ‘extra measures’
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) is concerned about a swift baht appreciation in the past two weeks and promised to impose extra measures to address short-term inflows just as the currency rose again today (June 1).Deputy governor Mathee Supapongse said today that the baht has ...
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Dengue outbreak kills 11, sickens 14,000
Eleven people have been killed and more than 14,000 sickened by a nationwide dengue fever outbreak that has been super-charged by the onset of the rainy season.“From January 1 to May 25 there have been 14,126 cases of dengue fever in Thailand, or 21.28 patients ...
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GPO ready for industrial vaccine production
The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) has announced progress in the development of three Thai Covid-19 vaccines, with results expected by the end of 2020 and a plant in Saraburi standing ready to begin manufacturing the successful candidate.GPO director general Dr Witoon Danwiboon on Monday (June ...
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Bangkok governor warns of flood threat from mounting garbage in canals
The amount of garbage in Bangkok’s canals is increasing and is starting to block the sewer system causing floods in many areas, the city chief said.Bangkok Governor Pol Gen Asawin Kwanmuang said just the removal of garbage from canals in Lat Phrao district and under ...
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Govt clarifies on Inter-provincial transport during curfew hours
The government has suggested that people defer inter-provincial travel, or travel only if it were necessary, as that would help slow or prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus.Phase 3 of the easing of lockdown measures, which comes into effect from June 1, permits inter-province ...
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Thailand joins global race to develop Covid-19 vaccine
Thailand took one step forward on Saturday (May 23) towards developing a vaccine for Covid-19.The director of the National Vaccine Institute (NVI), Dr Nakorn Premsri, said on Sunday (May 24) that vaccine development involves the synthesising of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) in a monkey, which ...
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Covid-19 casts two spells on Thai economy
The Thai economy contracted by 1.8 per cent in the first quarter from the same period last year or shrank by 2.2 per cent from the previous quarter after seasonal adjustment, the National Economic and Social Development Council has said.This recession was driven by the ...
BoI, state banks extend helping hand to firms hit hard by Covid-19
The Board of Investment (BoI) will join hands with two state-backed banks to help entrepreneurs affected by the Covid-19 outbreak, BoI secretary-general Duangjai Asawachintachit has said.“BoI will work with Small and Medium Enterprise Development Bank of Thailand [SME D Bank] and Export-Import Bank of Thailand ...
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Education Ministry hiring 10,000 asst teachers during virus crisis
The Education Ministry will hire 10,000 assistant teachers for primary schools as a way of helping unemployed educators amid the Covid-19 crisis.Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan said the plan was to hire assistant teachers for six months on a monthly salary of Bt9,000. The budget for ...
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