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The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) has suggested that the government relocate factories out of residential areas, following the plastics factory inferno, to prevent accidents in the future.Some incentives should be offered to factory owners, including a 2% reduction of land tax and a reduction ...

Thailand’s economy faced significant downside risks and limited policy room should be preserved to be used for the most effective time, the central bank’s minutes of its last meeting showed on Wednesday.A prolonged coronavirus outbreak could cause Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy to underperform the baseline ...

Thailand’s exports are expected to rise more than 7% in the third quarter from a year earlier and 6% in the final quarter of the year, lifted by higher global demand and a weaker baht, the Thai National Shippers’ Council said on Tuesday.Exports could grow ...

The Tourism and Sports Ministry plans to ask the Finance Ministry for 10 billion baht in soft loans to help operators prepare their businesses for the mid-October reopening deadline.Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, the tourism and sports minister, said if the Phuket sandbox operates smoothly, his ministry will ...

Surveyors are designing a route for a new expressway in Laos that will cut travel time between northern Thailand and southern China.Liu Jingwei, an official overseeing the project, said officials were surveying the route for the expressway that will connect Huayxai in Laos’ Bokeo province ...

The Delta variant is responsible for 70% of people in Bangkok falling sick with Covid-19, says a study by the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University.The findings were revealed by Yong Poovorawan, the centre director, on his Facebook page.He said the first ...

Thailand will push ahead with another attempt to secure Unesco World Heritage site status for the Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex at the annual World Heritage Convention this month, said Varawut Silpa-archa, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment.The country’s largest national park, covering a 2.9-million rai ...

Thailand’s household debt has hit an 18-year high after rising to 90.5% of GDP in the first quarter.Kasikorn Research Center (K-Research) reported Thailand’s outstanding household debt increased to 14.13 trillion baht in the first quarter of 2021, or 90.5% of GDP, the highest level in ...

Airports of Thailand (AoT) is saying that it is ready to welcome international tourists under the Phuket sandbox tourism scheme, while revealing that air traffic at six of its airports dropped by 71% in the last fiscal year to the Covid-19 pandemic.These comprise Suvarnabhumi, Don ...

Thailand’s foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to recover next year, especially for hotels, tourism and other sectors such as electronics and wafer fabrication for which the Board of Investment has offered attractive tax breaks.Speaking at an online seminar “Key Findings Of UNCTAD World Investment ...