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Ministry pushes new savings fund
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/11/2022
» The Finance Ministry is pushing for a mandatory provident fund intended to be a savings reserve for employees nationwide after voluntary provident funds were found to be inadequate.
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Covid-19 crisis hits hard for the elderly
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 23/08/2020
» Elderly people have suffered the most from the massive employment contraction during the economic crisis, although more will be working beyond retirement age, according to an online forum.
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Downturn sees savings fund enjoy spike in uptake
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 19/07/2020
» The government has seen encouraging results from its efforts to woo students and freelancers to join the National Savings Fund (NSF) to build up a pension fund ahead of their retirement.
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Dems, Pheu Thai target economy
News, Post Reporters, Published on 22/12/2018
» The two main political parties -- the Democrat Party and Pheu Thai -- are set to hit the campaign trail by focusing on economic issues in order to challenge the regime which has implemented a series of measures which have been criticised as "populist".
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Alert sounds on elderly care
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/06/2018
» More effort is needed to ensure people maintain decent living standards after retirement as Thailand moves fast towards becoming an ageing society, a seminar was told Tuesday.
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Mum insists model son really is poor
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/11/2017
» The adoptive mother of a male model who recently drew public criticism on social media after posting a photo of his state welfare card, which lies in stark contrast to his apparently well-to-do lifestyle, claims her son is genuinely poor.
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Advocates call to scrap pension limit
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 07/07/2017
» Labour advocates have urged the Social Security Office (SSO) to scrap a proposal to extend the minimum age for pension payouts under the social security system from the current 55 to 60.
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1997 meltdown 'unheeded lesson'
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 03/07/2017
» The 1997 financial meltdown, known as the Tom Yum Kung crisis, is an important lesson for policy-makers on the need to ensure better protections for the labour sector -- the hardest hit by the crisis -- so workers do not end up as "easy victims" of economic vulnerability, according to Narong Phetprasert, Chulalongkorn University labour economist.
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Bitcoin beckons Asian mom-and-pop investors
Published on 03/06/2017
» Long the preserve of geeky enthusiasts, bitcoin is going mainstream in Asia, attracting "Mrs Watanabe" -- the prototypical Japanese housewife investor -- along with Korean retirees and thousands of others trying to escape rock-bottom savings rates by investing in the cryptocurrency.
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PM allays benefit, health-scheme fears
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 02/05/2017
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha marked International Labour Day Monday by pledging to safeguard all existing state benefits for workers and dismissing a lingering rumour that the 30-baht healthcare scheme will be scrapped.
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