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Thailand touts 0.8% growth boost from casino complex
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 05/06/2025
» The government says an entertainment complex featuring a casino will still be an economic growth engine with the Finance Ministry projecting it will drive a 0.8% increase in GDP.
Treasury project boosts lease agreements
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 21/11/2024
» The Treasury Department is accelerating efforts to provide affordable state land leases for residential and agricultural purposes under the "Thanarak Eua Rat" (Treasury for the People) project, with a goal of issuing more than 3,900 lease agreements by 2025.
Ministries eye concessions for Bangkok train lines
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 16/09/2024
» The Finance Ministry and Transport Ministry have begun exploring the idea of acquiring the concessions for seven electric train lines, valued at roughly 500 billion baht, to bring them under state ownership.
Low-cost rent policy targets low-income people, farmers
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 29/06/2024
» The Finance Ministry has announced a policy to allot 260,000 rai of state land to low-income individuals and farmers at minimal rental rates.
BAAC allots B100bn for smart farms
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/11/2019
» The state-owned Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) aims to lend 100 billion baht in the next two years to expand the smart farmer model to 4,500 communities nationwide, its chief says.
Booze raid ‘was legitimate’
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 20/02/2018
» The Excise Department has denied social media allegations that its officials recently raided a shop in Ratchaburi without a search warrant and unlawfully seized alcohol from the business.
Excise chief soothes fear over tax on duty-free spirits
Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 19/02/2018
» Director-general of the Excise Department Kritsada Jinavijarana has come out to ease the concern among drinkers that they could later be taxed for duty-free spirits.
Attorney-general asks for PTT pipeline delay
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 12/02/2018
» The Attorney-General’s Office has asked the Supreme Administrative Court to push back the legal execution period for the return of PTT’s natural gas pipeline, which lapsed in December last year amid a legal dispute, says a Finance Ministry source familiar with the matter.
Wage hike to give SMEs tax windfall
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 01/02/2018
» Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with annual sales of up to 100 million baht in 17 provinces where the daily minimum wage will be raised by an average of five baht will enjoy a double windfall from the government's measure that lets them deduct expenses for minimum wages.