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Jaymart, Singer eye larger slice of B100bn smartphone market
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 30/01/2026
» Despite economic headwinds, Jaymart Mobile Co Ltd has continued to expand its branch network to increase coverage, while Singer Thailand is placing greater emphasis on smartphone loans, with both aiming to grow their share of Thailand's 100-billion-baht smartphone market.
Parties urged to focus on digital development
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 26/01/2026
» Political parties need to pay more attention to restructuring the digital economy and bolstering digital infrastructure to ensure sustainable national development, say state executives overseeing digital policies.
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.
New DES minister urged to prioritise AI
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 23/09/2025
» Three major industry organisations are urging Chaichanok Chidchob, the incoming digital economy and society (DES) minister, to prioritise the national artificial intelligence (AI) policy and sovereign technology development.
Tourism co-payment registration temporarily closed
Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 04/07/2025
» The new registration for the government’s tourism co-payment scheme is temporarily closed for maintenance from Friday, following widespread criticism over the project’s lack of preparedness.
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.
Bugs being fixed in travel subsidy sign-up system
Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 02/07/2025
» Lessons learned from previous travel subsidy schemes that cost the government 2.3 billion baht due to fraud have the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) defending the complicated registration process for the latest programme.
Thailand bolsters digital defences
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 21/06/2025
» The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry wants to improve government cybersecurity by obliging all state agencies to adopt multi-factor authentication (MFA) when logging in to their systems.
DES Ministry wins budget hike for fiscal 2026
Business, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 03/06/2025
» The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry has been allocated a budget for fiscal 2026 of 10.2 billion baht, an increase of 618 million from 9.6 billion for fiscal 2025.
Digital registration upgraded in July
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 12/05/2025
» The digital business registration system DBD Biz Regist unveiled at the beginning of this year is expected to become fully operational online in July, says the Department of Business Development (DBD).