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Prayut lays down 3-month deadline
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 06/06/2015
» Fifteen state enterprises that still have not found a chief executive must fill the vacancies within three months so that work there can continue, says Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
A win-win gamble
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 16/03/2015
» The lottery is the one pathway to wealth in which poor people are on an equal footing with the rich. To spend hundreds of baht to become an overnight millionaire is a tempting fantasy, although the chance of winning the top prize is slim — roughly one in a million.
B150bn plan for water, road projects
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 26/01/2015
» The Finance Ministry is about to launch a 150-billion-baht investment budget for fast-track projects aimed at pump-priming the country's slow economy and creating jobs upcountry during the coming dry season.
Rise of the patrician farmer
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 01/12/2014
» People recognise Korn Chatikavanij as a successful investment banker-turned-politician who was once the country's finance minister. Today he has a new role: owner of a non-profit packaged organic rice manufacturing company.
Domestic loans main source for projects
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 06/10/2014
» Borrowing in the domestic market will be a major source of funding for the 2.4-trillion-baht infrastructure projects due to low interest rates, a source at the Public Debt Management Office says.
Populism labelled a threat
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 07/08/2014
» Maintaining fiscal discipline will be a challenge, as politicians are used to giving in to voter demand for populist policies, says Banthoon Lamsam, chief executive of Kasikornbank and a member of the junta's appointed State Enterprises Policy Commission.
Ministry eyes B60bn loan from BAAC
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 17/05/2014
» The Finance Ministry is set to resume efforts to borrow 60 billion baht via a Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperative (BAAC) bond issue to settle overdue payments to rice farmers under the rice-pledging scheme following a spate of fund-raising setbacks.
BAAC to meet over farmers’ fund target
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 01/05/2014
» The board of the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) is set to discuss next month whether it will raise the target for farmers' funds if the current 20-billion-baht target is achievable as expected by the end of June.
BAAC walks hat in hand
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 22/04/2014
» The caretaker government is again desperately seeking fresh funds to pay its overdue debt to rice farmers, as 2-3 billion of the 20-billion-baht budget plus income from recent rice sales is expected to be paid out in the coming days.
FPO floats new plan
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 10/03/2014
» The Finance Ministry's Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) is floating the idea of a negative income tax system as a better approach than populist policies to addressing poverty.