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FTI readies factory relief operations
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 28/11/2025
» The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) has stepped up emergency measures to address widespread flooding in southern Thailand, where hundreds of factories have been inundated, disrupting production and supply chains across multiple sectors.
Deep South SMEs get new support
Published on 25/06/2025
» The cabinet has approved a 15-billion-baht soft loan to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the southern border provinces, extending a programme that offers a low annual interest rate of 1.99%.
Price controls get one-year extension
Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 16/06/2023
» The Ministry of Commerce has extended price controls on 51 products and services for another year. The extension will expire on June 30, 2024.
Gas-fired plant to get the nod
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 21/07/2021
» Government agencies are set to approve a 1,400-megawatt gas-fired power plant project in Surat Thani this year, replacing two highly contentious coal-fired power plant projects in the southern region.
Southern corridor under consideration
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 07/04/2021
» The government is mulling the establishment of a Southern Border Economic Corridor (SBEC), spanning the southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, along with four districts of Songkhla province -- Chana, Na Thawi, Saba Yoi and Thepha -- to ensure greater efficacy in terms of development plans for the region.
Investment in southern provinces poised to rise
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 12/01/2021
» More active investment in the southern provinces is anticipated after the Board of Investment late last year approved a two-year extension (2021-22) to incentives in the five southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, Satun, Songkhla and Yala.
Pandemic chaos pushes plants back
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 25/03/2020
» The development of two coal-fired power plants in two southern provinces may again be delayed until the end of this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Chinese investor builds B700m durian plant in lower South
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 28/07/2019
» A Chinese investment group from Kunming has invested about 700 million baht in establishing a durian processing factory in the lower South, aiming to export one-third of durian produced in the southern border provinces to China.
Bombed Samila beach reopens
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 28/12/2018
» SONGKHLA: Samila beach has reopened, with repairs to the famed mermaid sculpture expected to be completed on Friday, following the two bomb explosions there on Wednesday night.
Coal-fired plants back on agenda
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 16/05/2018
» Consideration of two coal-fired power plants in two southern provinces is back on track after a four-year delay, say energy policymakers.