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  • THAILAND

    BMA eyes first Green Line debt payment

    News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 14/02/2024

    » The Bangkok Metropolitan Administrative (BMA) will notify the Interior Ministry regarding an extra budget for the first tranche of debt, worth over 23 billion baht, owed to the Green Line electric rail service operator.

  • THAILAND

    High hopes for policy statement

    Published on 11/09/2023

    » As the government spells out its policy statement in parliament on Monday, people have high expectations for it to make good on its promises to deal with bread-and-butter issues affecting their lives and turn the economy around.

  • THAILAND

    CCSA blocks today's reopening

    News, Published on 01/06/2021

    » The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has put the brakes on City Hall's plan to allow five types of businesses, including spas and beauty clinics, to reopen today.

  • BUSINESS

    AIA presses on with portfolio diversification

    Business, Published on 31/01/2023

    » AIA, Asia's largest publicly-listed life insurance and securities group, is looking to expand its portfolio to logistics and real estate-related projects in markets such as Thailand amid economic uncertainties.

  • BUSINESS

    Thai Burger King unit aims to captivate kids

    Business, Pitsinee Jitpleecheep, Published on 02/06/2023

    » Burger Thailand, the local operator of the Burger King chain, is ramping up its efforts to attract children, part of the company's global strategy.

  • BUSINESS

    BMA mulls transferring new rail lines

    Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 02/08/2022

    » Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt now wants to transfer two new electric rail projects to the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA), while City Hall is still struggling to clear up problems surrounding the Green Line’s concessions.

  • BUSINESS

    Dining-in ban hurts ailing eateries

    Business, Pitsinee Jitpleecheep, Published on 29/06/2021

    » Eateries are braving the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis, with the government's latest announcement to ban dining-in at restaurants across high-risk areas including Bangkok through July anticipated to aggravate their plight.

  • LIFE

    Horror haunts

    Guru, Kankanok Wichiantanon, Published on 25/10/2019

    » For countless generations, superstitions have loomed large in the Thai psyche, often interweaving themselves into hundreds of horrifying tales, both factual and fictitious. Regardless of one's inclination to believe in them, there is no denying that a few real-life events in our fine city send shivers down the spine. Guru has listed places in the city with purported paranormal activity and macabre pasts. If you dare to experience them, you have been warned: proceed with caution.

  • BUSINESS

    Delivering success

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 11/12/2017

    » Asia's first driverless trucks began operating in October at the ExxonMobil plant on Jurong Island in Singapore, while fleets of autonomous delivery vehicles are expected to get rolling on Great Britain's motorways next year. These are just some of the headline-making developments in the brave new world of transport being promoted by the likes of Google, Tesla, Uber and major vehicle manufacturers.

  • BUSINESS

    Finance Ministry to hold 99% of IBank

    Business, Chatrudee Theparat, Published on 31/05/2018

    » The government is set to inject 2 billion baht into state-owned Islamic Bank of Thailand (IBank) as soon as there is an announcement of the amended Islamic Bank of Thailand Act in the Royal Gazette, allowing the Finance Ministry to hold more than 49% of the bank.

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