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The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) is scheduled to convene two sittings in the coming week, with one matter set to be the deliberation of a draft law on government welfare.Keep watching ...

The farm sector has been a driving engine behind the country’s economic growth, but at the same time, debt among farmers keeps rising. The main farm product is rice. Last year, the value of rice traded was 174.5 billion baht, which is around 12.89% of ...

Fatima, 48, thought she would find safety in Thailand when she fled war-torn Syria almost six years ago.“We came to Thailand because it was the only country that gave us a visa,” says Fatima, who was born in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, near ...

Similar to many other growing Southeast Asian countries, Thailand is facing an increase in energy demand. According to the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), energy demand in Southeast Asia in 2040 is expected to increase between 110- to 130 percent. Meanwhile, due to Thailand’s good ...

Myanmar and Thailand signed an agreement to jointly upgrade a highway linking the Thai-Myanmar border with the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ), a USD8 billion project that includes a deep seaport. The project in southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region is set to be Southeast Asia’s largest ...

The Industry Ministry has ordered the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Office to conduct a feasibility study for expanding the EEC into new provinces to further drive investment demand in the industrial sector. The plan is to expand into surrounding provinces. The corridor spans 110,168 rai ...

The risk of water scarcity is looming in the East, thanks mainly to a boom in industrial development in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Experts have been expressing concerns that the rising demand for water in the three EEC provinces – Chon Buri, Rayong and ...

Millennials should quickly improve their skill set to adapt to the age of automation and technology 4.0, while increased savings for retirement are anticipated as income growth could be affected by automation, says Krungthai Macro Research. Keep reading ...

Thailand’s Laem Chabang Port and China’s Qinzhou Port have signed a sister port agreement to promote trade and maritime connectivity between Thailand and China, both of which will set up a joint working group and host a biennial meeting.Keep watching ...

Myanmar migrant in Samut Sakhon’s Mahachai district are living in terror that they may become a target of police extortion.Ko Ko Naing, a Myanmar national working for the Labour Rights Promotion Network Foundation (LPN), recounted that he himself nearly landed in jail once when police ...