Bangkok Post

More than 30,000 people have joined Collaborative Fact Checking (Cofact) Thailand to combat fake news during the Covid-19 pandemic.The Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), Cofact Thailand, the International Fact Checking Network and other anti-fake news organisations yesterday held a seminar to mark International Fact-Checking Day ...

The Bank of Thailand says it will begin testing use of its retail digital currency for the general public in the second quarter of next year before fully implementing it over the next three to five years.The retail central bank digital currency (retail CBDC) is ...

Hailing 2020 as a “great year” for electric vehicle (EV) sales in the global market, Krisda Utamote, president of the Electric Vehicle Association of Thailand (EVAT), is eager to see a similar growth in Thailand with the spotlight on the EV industry.But a focus on ...

The cabinet has agreed to set up a national pension fund that would force employees out of provident funds and cut the public budget.The move is being taken because Thailand is becoming an ageing society — it is estimated that the country will have a ...

Quarantine will be reduced to seven days for people coming from overseas who have received two doses of vaccine at least 14 days before arrival, beginning on Thursday, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration confirmed on Wednesday.Apisamai Srirangson, assistant spokeswoman, said people who had not ...

The tourism-reliant economy could contract in the first quarter from the preceding three months and the corresponding year earlier period due to the impact of a new coronavirus outbreak, the central bank said on Wednesday.The Southeast Asian country had largely contained the spread of Covid-19 ...

Thailand’s economic growth is expected to accelerate from 2023 to 2024, driven by public investment, after slowly recovering from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the finance minister said on Wednesday.The government is maintaining its gross domestic product (GDP) growth target of 4% this year, ...

The government’s ambitious goal of 4% economic growth this year will be difficult, requiring a lot of effort and a host of supporting factors such as higher exports, recovering foreign tourist arrivals and active private investment, says the Finance Ministry’s Fiscal Policy Office (FPO).FPO adviser ...

Thailand’s labour force is recovering from a plunge last year that saw 3 million people lose their jobs because of the pandemic, though people with IT skill sets are in great demand as organisations gear up for digital transformation, according to job search platform JobsDB.People ...

The government has set aside 300,000 rai of land to redistribute to low-income farmers who don’t have their own properties to work on.Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said after chairing yesterday’s meeting of the National Committee on Land Policy that the land would be released to ...