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Co-payment scheme spending reaches B38 billion
Online Reporters, Published on 15/11/2025
» The Khon La Khrueng Plus (Half-Half Plus) co-payment scheme has recorded 37.9 billion baht in spending in the 17 days since its launch, with more than 710,000 participants having fully used their subsidy quota, according to the Ministry of Finance.
Thai transport minister touts plan to convert 1,520 public buses to EVs
Online Reporters, Published on 28/09/2025
» Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, has announced that 1,520 conventional buses will be converted into electric vehicles (EVs) as part of the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority’s (BMTA) ongoing modernisation programme.
B1.75bn approved for ‘half-half’ Thai tourism subsidies
Online Reporters, Published on 24/06/2025
» The cabinet has approved a budget of 1.75 billion baht for the “Half-Half Thailand Travel” campaign, intended to promote domestic tourism in the low season, Tourism and Sports Minister Sorawong Thienthong said on Tuesday.
Ex-PM Yingluck ordered to pay B10bn for Thai rice scheme losses
Online Reporters, Published on 22/05/2025
» The Supreme Administrative Court has ordered fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to pay 10 billion baht in compensation for the losses incurred by her administration’s rice-pledging scheme more than a decade ago.
50% subsidy scheme to spur Thai tourism planned for May
Online Reporters, Published on 02/03/2025
» Thailand's Tourism and Sports Ministry is planning to introduce a co-payment package for tourism in May to promote domestic travel in the low season.
Border alert for palm oil smuggling from Malaysia
Online Reporters, Published on 04/11/2024
» Trade officials along the border with Malaysia have been instructed to closely monitor the movement of cooking palm oil from Malaysia as high prices in Thailand attract smugglers.
Malaysia targets border fuel outlets supplying smugglers
Online Reporters, Published on 02/07/2024
» Dozens of petrol stations in Malaysia near the border with Thailand face potential closure for involvement in the smuggling of cheaper fuel into Thailand.
Malaysia plans CCTV at border fuel stations to tame smuggling
Online Reporters, Published on 21/06/2024
» Malaysian authorities are considering putting their own closed-circuit TV cameras at some petrol stations in a state bordering Thailand to deter them from selling cheap fuel to smugglers.
Most want subsidised childcare, free education to spur birth rate: poll
Online Reporters, Published on 01/10/2023
» A majority of people want the state to provide subsidies for childcare and free education as an incentive for Thai people to have one or more children now that the country has become an aged society with a low birthrate, according to a survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.
Truckers to cut freight rates from Friday
Online Reporters, Published on 04/04/2023
» Truck operators will reduce freight charges by 3% on Friday, when the price of standard diesel is set to fall to 33 baht a litre at the pump.