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FDI to start recovering next year in hotel, tourism sectors
Thailand’s foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to recover next year, especially for hotels, tourism and other sectors such as electronics and wafer fabrication for which the Board of Investment has offered attractive tax breaks.Speaking at an online seminar “Key Findings Of UNCTAD World Investment ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Bt1.6-billion FDI got the nod in June
The committee overseeing foreigners’ investment under the Foreign Business Act permitted 22 foreigners to invest in Thailand in June, according to the Department of Business Development’s director-general, Vuttikrai Leewiraphan.Most of them are from Japan, Singapore and China with total foreign direct investment (FDI) of Bt1.587 ...
The Nation Reporter
Trade war bolsters Chinese interest in Thailand
More Chinese manufacturers are looking to Thailand as a production base to avoid US tariffs, based on trends in demand for industrial estates.WHA Corp, the top Thai provider of such estates, said it expects Chinese companies to account for as much as half of its ...
Thailand’s Special Economic Zones Fail to Deliver
Since 2015, Thailand’s military government has been in the process of rigorously reforming the country’s investment policies. One of its main reforms has been to establish Special Economic Zones (SEZs) along the country’s borders. But despite government promises, these zones will ultimately fail to bring ...
Wannaphong Durongkaveroj