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TCC calls for fare subsidies
News, Post Reporters, Published on 22/08/2024
» The Thailand Consumer Council (TCC) has called for the public sector to subsidise public transport fares, suggesting it should use funds derived from personal vehicles, land, and windfall taxes.
B20 fare gets MRTA approval
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 30/09/2023
» The Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA) board has approved a fare cut for the MRT's Purple Line so passengers will pay a maximum fare of 20 baht per trip starting on Dec 1.
Na Jomtien to reopen fully in 2025
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/08/2022
» Chon Buri: The 3.5-kilometre-long Na Jomtien beach in Pattaya City is expected to fully reopen to tourists in 2025 when the iconic beach is fully fortified by sand fences in a coastal erosion prevention project initiated in 2020.
Betong pact takes shape
News, Published on 27/03/2022
» An agreement will be signed this week to create leisure tourism packages with travel by air to Betong, says Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn.
Relief schemes set to kick off earlier
News, Published on 25/01/2022
» The popular Khon La Khrueng (Half-Half) scheme will be re-launched sooner than planned although the subsidy for subscribers will be trimmed, the government announced.
Tourism stimulus fraudsters face court
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 16/11/2021
» The Crime Suppression Division (CSD) yesterday wrapped up investigations and handed over its case file against 136 people accused of defrauding a tourism stimulus scheme to prosecutors.
Hundreds more hotels, shops accused of defrauding travel subsidy
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 19/02/2021
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand has brought charges against 934 more hotels and shops for fraudulent claims on the government's "We Travel Together" co-payment scheme, with total damage now estimated at 1.7 billion baht.
Cash app crashes on first day
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/02/2021
» Many people were unable to use the "Pao Tang" app and receive their first 2,000-baht "Rao Chana" cash handout due to a system crash yesterday. The Pao Tang e-wallet app went down on the very first day the scheme was supposed to transfer cash to 10.2 million people.
Three more teachers caught over subsidies fraud
Published on 11/02/2021
» KHON KAEN: Three more teachers were arrested for allegedly cheating local residents in two government co-payment schemes.
Teachers accused of mass benefit fraud
News, Chakrapan Natanri, Published on 10/02/2021
» KHON KAEN: A total of 697 people in Nong Rua district, most of them elderly and non-users of smartphones, are believed to be victims of a fraud perpetrated by three teachers seeking to steal government handouts to people affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.