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Car industry seeks easier loans amid weak sales
Published on 10/06/2025
» Thai automobile sales executives are urging the government to quickly devise new measures that could nudge banks to grant more auto loans to prospective buyers, seeking to lift both the new and used car markets.
Shape of new climate politics emerges
News, Published on 07/06/2025
» Only a few months ago, a headline like "United States sets tariffs of up to 3,521% on solar panels from Southeast Asia" could have been dismissed as satire. Today, it's nothing special, one of many published amid an uninterrupted fusillade accompanying Donald Trump's first 100 days in power. Yet it's also part of something bigger, as axes of economic power shift, technological changes surge, and popular sentiments reconfigure and metastasise. Amid that fracturing world order, how should we consider the climate crisis?
Vietnam cuts renewable power subsidies
Published on 22/05/2025
» HANOI — Vietnam’s state power utility has cut the previously agreed subsidised prices it pays for electricity from some solar and wind farms, which now risk defaulting on their debts with banks, according to an investors’ petition seen by Reuters.
Struggles at the farm gate
News, Published on 08/05/2025
» Farmers across Thailand are sounding the alarm as plunging prices for key crops push rural communities deeper into debt, prompting urgent calls for government intervention.
BoT extends debt relief enrolment deadline
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 26/04/2025
» The Bank of Thailand has extended the registration deadline for the "You Fight, We Help" debt relief programme, aimed at supporting vulnerable borrowers amid growing uncertainty and slower economic growth.
Corporate debt repayment capacity concerns Bank of Thailand
Published on 24/04/2025
» The Bank of Thailand has voiced concerns about the debt repayment capacity of some domestic corporations carrying heavy debt burdens amid increasing economic headwinds.
Energy strategy pivot wins 'overwhelming support'
News, Published on 21/04/2025
» Most banks in the industry's biggest climate alliance endorsed a proposal that will refocus the group on providing financial support for the energy transition and also hold signatories to a less stringent standard for reducing the emissions enabled by their lending.
IMF pushes for stronger Thai financial security
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 11/04/2025
» The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging Thailand to strengthen household financial security to mitigate the country's persistently high household debt.
Trump tariff tsunami sinks regional shares
Business, Published on 05/04/2025
» RECAP: Asian shares fell to their lowest level in two months yesterday, extending a global selloff in stocks after US President Donald Trump's latest tariff measures drove investors into safe-haven assets.
China vows retaliation as Trump unleashes ‘bazooka’ US tariffs
Published on 03/04/2025
» China vowed to retaliate against Donald Trump’s biggest tariffs yet, putting the world’s largest economies on a collision course that risks decimating bilateral trade and upending supply chains.