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MG leads investment push for hybrid EVs
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 13/08/2024
» The hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) market in Thailand is expected to intensify as automakers announce investment plans, with Chinese-Thai joint venture SAIC Motor-CP and MG Sales (Thailand) unveiling plans to produce HEVs under the MG brand in Chon Buri by 2025.
Board of Investment plans meetings with 10 Chinese battery producers
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 05/04/2024
» The Board of Investment (BoI) is preparing to meet with leading electric vehicle battery cell manufacturers in China to encourage them to invest in Thailand in order to support the country's fast-growing EV industry.
Employers urge new debt measures
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 15/09/2023
» The new government should speed up efforts to reduce high household debt and help middle-income earners, not only farmers, as the former are also shouldering huge financial burdens, says the Employers' Confederation of Thai Trade and Industry (EconThai).
Joint panel's trade view decays as global virus fallout deepens
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 08/05/2020
» Thai exports in 2020 are likely to contract by 5-10%, worsening from an earlier projection of a 2% decline, as a result of the coronavirus outbreak's effect on the global economy, says the Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking (JSCCIB).
THG speeds up projects as tax kicks in
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 02/03/2020
» The enforcement of the land and buildings tax is putting pressure on Boon Vanasin, owner and chairman of Thonburi Healthcare Group (THG), to speed up development of property projects.
CP pressured on rail bid
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 28/02/2019
» The Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Office has given the CP Group-led consortium an ultimatum to conclude its financial proposal for the 224.5-billion-baht high-speed railway connecting three major airports by March 5, otherwise the state will negotiate with BSR Joint Venture.
Joint venture firm to establish InnoSpace
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 20/12/2018
» The Industry Ministry will encourage local and foreign companies to co-invest in a 500-million-baht joint venture firm for the establishment of the country's innovation space project in early 2019.
KDC puts aside B300m for 4.0
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 01/10/2018
» Krungdhep Document Co (KDC), a documents storage and management services provider, plans to spend 300 million baht next year to construct a data centre and expand warehouses as it aims to aid the transition to Thailand 4.0.
Columbus charts course
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 05/05/2018
» The Industry Ministry has teamed up with the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) on a new venture capital fund to finance Thai and Japanese startups under a bilateral initiative called Open Innovation Columbus.
Ministry: B100bn to EEC in 2018
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 11/01/2018
» The Industry Ministry is confident that investment value in the flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) will reach 100 billion baht in 2018, thanks to the rise of new S-curve industries.