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Hands up for a pay rise
Published on 12/11/2023
» Despite being in office for only two months, the Pheu Thai-led government has made progress on several campaign pledges including plans to raise salaries for civil servants and the daily minimum wages for unskilled workers, although the timeframe set for these changes is within four years.
Sudaporn faces high-stakes battle
Sports, Published on 03/08/2021
» Thai boxer Sudaporn Seesondee faces the fight of her life against Great Britain's Caroline Dubois in the women's lightweight (60kg) quarter-finals at the Tokyo Games on Tuesday.
Firm hit by B100m fraud claim
News, Published on 01/08/2018
» About 50 people have accused a company of fraudulently luring them into investing money through its five Line chat groups, with a promise of high returns.
Online investors accused firm of defrauding them of B100m
Online Reporters, Published on 31/07/2018
» About 50 people have accused a company of fraudulently luring them into investing money through its five LINE chat groups, with a promise of high returns.
Set the wheelchairs of change in motion
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 18/03/2018
» Anybody doing business in Thailand has horror stories about red tape. Not a day goes by where I am not responsible for felling at least one tree from somewhere deep within a national park. Page after page, I sign the bottom of these utterly useless photocopied pages, in triplicate, one after the other, all the time either contemplating life or how to end it all and put myself out of this bureaucratic misery.
Rio's unpaid government workers line up for food
AFP, Published on 29/12/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - At the foot of a tall building in downtown Rio de Janeiro, government workers line up for donated groceries, unable to buy their own because their salaries have not been paid.
Pocketbook pain
Asia focus, Published on 07/09/2015
» Global oil price volatility has taken its toll on governments around the world, especially those relying on oil exports, but the impact on individuals and households who depend on the petrodollar for their livelihood has been no less acute.
Singapore opposition camp to contest all seats in election
Published on 01/09/2015
» SINGAPORE — Singapore's opposition camp is contesting all 89 parliamentary seats in the Sept 11 general election, posing the strongest challenge ever to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's party that has ruled the tiny city-state since independence, state media reported Tuesday.
Civil servant bonuses cut from budget
Online Reporters, Published on 04/09/2014
» The House committee scrutinising the 2015 budget bill on Thursday cut five billion baht earmarked for civil-servant bonuses, saying the criteria used to award them was unclear.
B3.7bn bonus for civil servants
Online Reporters, Published on 12/12/2013
» The Comptroller-General's Department is poised to pay 3.745 billion baht in bonuses to civil servants this December, according to director-general Manas Jemveha.