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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha reiterated Monday (Nov,5) pre-election talks on the lifting of the political ban would take place after the organic law on the election of MPs takes effect next month. The premier said he expected the details of the planned dialogue and other ...

The Energy Ministry is considering using a surplus of crude palm oil this year to replace fossil fuels for power generation at two state-run plants in Chachoengsao and Ratchaburi.The tentative plan is to be implemented at Bang Pakong power plant, owned by the Electricity Generating ...

The government of Myanmar has launched a major investment drive centred on Asian countries in the face of declining interest from the West. “We must be proactive and seek the sort of investment that is good for the country,” Thaung Tun, head of the Myanmar ...

Though countries in Asia Pacific are racing to build their own cryptocurrency hubs — Jeju Island in South Korea or Cagayan in the Philippines are among them — they are arguably playing catch-up: Thailand, partly buoyed by the iGaming sector, which includes some of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bill on a land and buildings tax, that was stuck in a National Legislative Assembly (NLA) standing committee for more than a year, has finally won the panel’s approval and is expected to go before lawmakers for a second reading within two weeks.Keep reading ...

The cabinet has endorsed four infrastructure investment projects worth a combined 470 billion baht under the government’s flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) scheme. The projects were approved by the EEC Policy Committee on Oct 4 and endorsed at a mobile cabinet meeting on Tuesday in ...

By 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach 10 billion, mainly driven by growth in poor and densely populated regions of Asia and Africa, whose livelihood is highly dependent on rice for food and socio-economic advancement. Keep reading ...