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Unemployment rate reaches 2.25% in Q3
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 23/11/2021
» Thailand's labour market has been severely affected by the strict measures to control the spread of Covid-19, with the unemployment rate jumping to 2.25% in the third quarter from 1.89% in the previous three months, while household debt continued to grow.
Filling in the power gaps with independent energy
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 23/10/2019
» As recently as six years ago, the 400 households in Ban Wang Won Chonprathan in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, went dark at sundown, as the village was not connected to the grid.
B150bn splashed out to aid water projects
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 18/01/2018
» The government is allocating more funds this fiscal year to water management, particularly to develop existing royally initiated water projects, in an effort to ensure supply for farmland and generate more income in the sector.
Reservoir repairs community
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 04/12/2017
» The Sakor is mostly recognised as a small, decaying reservoir in the Deep South, but efforts to fix it have united the rural poor in Narathiwat province.
Raft of aid measures for affected farmers
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 09/08/2017
» The cabinet yesterday approved a cash handout worth a combined 1.69 billion baht to help ease the plight of farmers in the North and Northeast hit by tropical floods in 36 provinces.
Tax break scheme designed for flood donations
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 02/08/2017
» The government has come up with a tax deduction scheme for people who donate money to help provide aid to victims of the flood-ravaged North and Northeast.
B2bn rice insurance scheme gets nod
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 28/06/2017
» The cabinet yesterday approved a rice insurance scheme for the first crop of the 2017 season, worth 2 billion baht.
Productivity grows, but unemployment reaches 1%
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 07/03/2017
» The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) has reported positive developments in income and labour productivity in the fourth quarter and for the whole of 2016.
Prayut orders rubber upgrade
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 03/09/2016
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha gave a mandate yesterday for related agencies to work out strategic plans to upgrade the quality of block rubber and measures to sway farmers from putting sulphuric acid in the latex.
Cabinet eyes cash rebate for foreign movie shoots
Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 12/08/2015
» The cabinet approved in principle yesterday a cash rebate for foreign big-budget films shot in Thailand.