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The month of December is usually one of reflection and planning, and this is exactly what is on the menu after the annual EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI) released its rankings late last month. In case you’re wondering, EF EPI ranks countries (where English ...

The private sector is being encouraged to adopt circular economy principles for business operations to reduce costs, increase efficiency and generate income from innovative business models.Poonpong Naiyanapakorn, director-general of the Trade Policy and Strategy Office, said the circular economy concept was introduced in response to ...

A Thai government committee plans to hold Songkran Festival celebrations during the entire month of April 2024, instead of the traditional three days, in a bid to entrench Thailand’s standing among the top 10 global destinations for festivals.Songkran, the Thai traditional new year, falls on ...

Thailand’s Manufacturing Production Index (MPI) decreased by 4.29% year-on-year in October to 89.4 points as people become more careful spending amid sluggish Thai and global economies.The Thai economy has not fully recovered and interest rates remain high, said Siripen Kiatfuengfoo, deputy director-general of the Office ...

The Bank of Thailand (BOT)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Wednesday voted unanimously to retain the policy interest rate at 2.5% per annum.The overall Thai economy continues to see the recovery trend persist, although the export and production sectors are slowing down, according to Piti ...

Improvement in worker skills and increasing female participation in the labour force are some of the key recommendation for Thailand in the latest World Bank report released on Wednesday.The report, titled “Bridging the Gap: Inequality and Jobs in Thailand”, aims to provide a movement landscape ...

Thailand has moved up five places from the previous year to 35th in the World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2023 published recently by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD).The Swiss-based institute ranked 64 countries and economic zones globally based on three indicators: knowledge, technology and ...

The Energy Regulatory Commission of Thailand has set new electricity charges, ranging from 4.68 baht to 5.95 baht/unit from January until April, 2024.The price from September until December this year has been 3.99 baht/unit.At its meeting today, the commission approved an 89.55 satang/unit Fuel Tariff ...

An impressive 24,081,613 foreign tourists entered Thailand between January 1 and November 25 this year, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) announced on Tuesday, adding foreign arrivals in November alone amounted to 100,059 people.The authority is confident that total foreign arrivals this year will exceed ...

Many domestic industrial groups were struggling to survive as cheaper, substandard imported goods were flooding the market, the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) said.These imported goods were often falsely labelled, fake and/or substandard, and clandestinely brought in and sold at prices 10-20% cheaper than the ...