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Thailand targets global AI hub status
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 28/02/2026
» Thailand is uniquely positioned to become a global artificial intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure hub as it has already attracted a potential 5 gigawatts of data centre capacity, representing hundreds of billions of baht in infrastructure investment, by leveraging its geopolitical neutrality amid rising international tensions, says the Digital Council of Thailand (DCT).
Initiative offers Line 'Safety Check'
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 18/12/2025
» The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry has joined hands with four government agencies and Line (Thailand) on disaster notification efforts, offering a "Safety Check" feature on the application.
New ride-sharing rules present some roadblocks
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 23/09/2025
» Thailand plans to enforce new regulations for ride-hailing platforms in October, aiming to enhance safety, transparency and reliability for passengers, drivers and platform operators.
Specialists urge revamp of state procurement process
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 04/07/2025
» Technical experts have urged an overhaul of the bidder qualification criteria for government auctions to prevent registration system collapses for state projects with a massive amount of registrants.
Lower growth in Thai ad spending predicted
Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 07/05/2025
» The digital media agency Media Intelligence Group (MI) has revised down its growth forecast for advertising and marketing spending in Thailand this year to 2.2%, representing 87.6 billion baht in total spending, from an earlier projection of 4.5% growth, citing unfavourable economic conditions.
Setting up a platform economy
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 15/02/2025
» Thailand drafted the Digital Platform Economy Act, a new law to govern the expanding number of digital platforms, aiming to maintain economic and social security.
Examining the digital ID framework
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 02/11/2024
» The Digital Economy and Society Ministry has approved the draft of phase 2 of Thailand's digital ID framework (2025-2027), aiming to increase the number of e-government services that accept digital ID.
Tax measures to incentivise digital training
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 01/11/2024
» The Digital Economy Promotion Agency (Depa) will promote tax incentive measures to encourage individuals to personally upskill themselves in the field of digital knowledge.
All senders of SMS with links must register
Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 24/10/2024
» SMS senders who attach links to messages must now register yearly, says the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, as it moves to tackle fraudulent messages and scam links attached to them.
Deep tech startups spawned
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 24/10/2024
» The Program Management Unit for Competitiveness (PMUC), a research funding unit under the Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Ministry, has successfully nurtured more than 90 Thai deep tech startups and innovation-based entrepreneurs, resulting in an economic value of more than 965 million baht.