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Get ready to spend: Shopping tax break begins Nov 11
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 08/11/2017
» The government's shopping tax break begins Saturday. It will let individual taxpayers deduct up to 15,000 baht of taxable income from the value of goods and services bought until Dec 3.
Remember Mong? He's still not Thai
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 04/09/2017
» Despite national fame and big promises after becoming a paper airplane champion, Mong Thongdee, now 20, remains stateless.
Inoculation against dengue fever urged
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 23/08/2017
» A study has found that dengue vaccinations had prevented infection in an estimated 65% of the cases, and reduced the severity of the disease by 93%.
New information revealed in 'tea money' probe
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 18/07/2017
» Some students who received low marks in Samsenwittayalai School's entrance examination were found to have been admitted, a former alumni association chairman has revealed.
Former communists to receive B1.4bn
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 12/06/2017
» The government will next Wednesday hand out a total of 1.4 billion baht to 6,183 ex-comrades in "pocket money", as a parting gift to former members of the now-defunct Communist Party of Thailand (CPT).
New grads head list of jobless workers
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 11/04/2017
» Close to half a million people were unemployed last month, many of them new graduates, up 99,000 or 1.3% in the same period last year, which is spurring the government to offer skills training for jobless workers.
Cheap insurance policies for "dangerous" Songkran period
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 22/03/2017
» 18 non-life insurance companies will offer a cheap accident insurance products priced at 222 baht during this year's Songkran festival which, of course, includes the "seven dangerous days".
Mass transit: Partial launch of new ticketing system set for June
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 25/01/2017
» A common ticketing system for different modes of public transport is expected to be partially introduced in June, says a transport official.
NLA leaves Supreme Patriarch choice to King
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 30/12/2016
» The National Legislative Assembly passed a bill Thursday to amend the 1992 Sangha Act in what is seen as a move likely to diminish the chances of Somdet Phra Maha Ratchamangalacharn becoming supreme patriarch.
Chuvit, 30,000 others set for royal pardon release
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 13/12/2016
» Sharp-tongued politician Chuvit Kamolvisit is among about 30,000 prisoners who are expected to be freed under a royal pardon, Corrections Department chief Kobkiat Kasiwat says.