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The world in 2030: China to the fore
China will be the world’s largest economy in 2030, overtaking the US, while India – currently the seventh biggest – will be third, pushing Germany and Japan down a position.We have looked at 75 economies in developing, emerging and frontier markets to make long-term projections ...
Low farm prices slow fight against poverty
The World Bank has expressed its concern over the high number of Thai people living below the poverty line. It says the low price of farm products is partly to blame for the slowing number of poor people. Poverty has been on the decline in ...
Wichit Chaitrong
SPECIAL REPORT: A refuge for impounded wildlife
Three-year-olds Shizuka and Nobita are no longer frightened and stressed. They no longer tremble and hug one another tightly as they did upon first arriving at the Khao Prathap Chang Wildlife Breeding Centre in Ratchaburi province a few years ago. Instead, the pair play separately, ...
Piyaporn Wongruang
EEC Committee Gives Nods To Bidding For Four Infra Projects
Members of the The Eastern Economic Corridor Policy Committee yesterday (Oct 4) approved a plan to open bidding for four infrastructure projects worth Bt430 billion at the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
EEC Office and Jetro sign aid deal
Thailand and Japan have come to an agreement to aid Japanese companies looking to invest in the government’s flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) scheme.Industry Minister Uttama Savanayana yesterday (Oct 5) witnessed the signing ceremony of a memorandum of intent between the EEC Office and the ...
Lamonphet Apisitniran
Helping only the poor may hurt all in the end, seminar hears
Several economists have cautioned Thailand against falling into the trap of delivering state help to low-income earners only.“State welfare should be universal,” said Dr Thorn Pitidol, a lecturer at the Thammasat University’s Faculty of Economics. A recent forum held by his faculty addressed the challenges ...
Chularat Saengpassa
Thailand will stick to 2019 date for general election, deputy PM says
There will be no delays to a general election planned in Thailand for 2019, the deputy prime minister said on Wednesday (Oct 3), amid the concerns of government critics and the opposition that it could be pushed back.Keep reading ...
Grand tourism plans for EEC
Thailand has devised a tourism development plan for the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) with a five-year public and private budget of about Bt200 billion.Tourist numbers are expected to surge by 1.5 times within 2021, Kalin Sarasin, chairman of the Board of Trade of Thailand who ...
The Nation Reporter
Call for further power plants
Business operators have high expectations that the country’s energy policymakers will soon open licence granting for waste-to-energy power plants with a combined capacity of 300 megawatts. Keep reading ...
Yuthana Praiwan
Thailand taken off ivory trade watch list
Thailand has been removed from an international watch list of eight countries of “primary concern” in the illegal ivory trade. Somkiat Sunthornpitakkul, director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation’s Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Division revealed the improved status ...
The Nation Reporter