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Krungthai Bank trims NPL rate to 2.7% this year
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 27/11/2025
» Krungthai Bank (KTB) has exercised careful asset management, enabling the state-owned bank to reduce its non-performing loans (NPLs) excluding government-assisted contracts from 4.4% of the portfolio in 2020 to just 2.7% in the first nine months of this year, say executives.
People-centred justice
Published on 10/11/2022
» Since its inception in 2011, the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ) has paid attention to the different demands and complex backgrounds of female prisoners. Years later, TIJ initiated a street food programme to support stigmatised former inmates to get a job and it has been a devout promoter of people-centred justice in action. In a society where some feel the justice system doesn’t serve them, the concept that ‘justice needs surveys’ is needed more than ever.
CentralPattana links up with KFC for “Sharing Happiness” campaign
Published on 10/08/2022
» CentralPattana links up with KFC for “Sharing Happiness” campaign Thais nationwide invited to celebrate Mother’s Day and share happiness with inmates of women’s correctional institutions
Restorative Justice, the alternative tool of justice to erase retributive mindset for harmonious society
Published on 29/07/2022
» Thailand’s prison overcrowding is one of the most severe problems deteriorating its justice system and prisoners’ wellbeing. Meanwhile, the emergence of Covid-19 in Thailand and worldwide reverberates the concerns and sparks the need for the country’s justice system that should be less dependent on detention and imprisonment and must seek a sustainable and optional solution.
'Correctional' estate being developed
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 18/07/2022
» The Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) expects the construction of a new "correctional industrial estate" to be completed in 3-5 years, helping the government generate jobs for inmates.
It Was a Pretty Good Year in Car Business -- Except for Suppliers
Business, Mike Colias, Published on 07/12/2021
» Peter Anthony, the head of a Chicago-area auto supplier, has spent much of this year feeling left on the sidelines in an industry delivering solid profits to car makers and dealers.
IEAT promotes creation of 'correctional' estate project
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 03/11/2021
» The Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) is preparing to invite companies to join a project to build "correctional industrial estates" in five provinces, including those in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).
IEAT to speed up correctional estate study
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 25/10/2021
» The Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) is speeding up a feasibility study to build a new "correctional industrial estate" in a move to upskill inmates and convert them into a new workforce for the country.
FTI touts herb to treat workers
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 20/07/2021
» The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) is preparing to give 100,000 seeds of fa thalai jone herbs to factories for planting under a plan to treat workers infected with Covid-19.
Hopeful investing with a post-Covid recovery theme
Business, Tisco Securities, Published on 12/06/2021
» The third wave of Covid-19 in Thailand has proven to be more severe than previously expected. Since April, there have been over 2,000 new cases per day, fuelled by a spate of clusters at markets and construction sites. While the prison system clusters now appear to be contained, total infections among inmates have surpassed 22,000.