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SCCC Reports Impressive H1 2024 Results Amid Multiple External Challenges
Published on 07/08/2024
» Siam City Cement Public Company Limited (SCCC), a leading player in the cement industry for over five decades, has reported an impressive financial performance for the first half of 2024, demonstrating significant growth and strategic adaptability in a challenging economic environment.
Supplementary budget bill sails through Senate
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 07/08/2024
» The supplementary bill, which seeks to increase the budget for the current fiscal year by 122 billion baht to partially fund the government's digital wallet handout scheme, sailed through all three readings in the Upper House on Tuesday.
Exports tipped to grow 1-2%
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 07/08/2024
» The Thai National Shippers' Council (TNSC) expects the value of exports to expand by 1-2% this year.
Senate panel selection vote gets heated
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 07/08/2024
» Senators from minority factions have cried foul after senators from the majority bloc voted themselves in to dominate the Senate committee scrutinising the qualifications of the new attorney-general.
Vimut banking on novel services
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 07/08/2024
» Innovations in medical services are expected to help increase the number of patients for private hospital operator Vimut Holding Hospital Co, which has observed that expensive medical services have been discouraging people from visiting hospitals.
GVREIT ploughs B200m into offices
Business, Kanana Katharangsiporn, Published on 07/08/2024
» Golden Ventures Leasehold Real Estate Investment Trust (GVREIT) will invest 200 million baht in the renovation of two office buildings in order to enhance their competitiveness and retain tenants amid a surge in office supply.
Investor confidence index turns bearish in July
Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 07/08/2024
» The Federation of Thai Capital Market Organizations's (Fetco) Investor Confidence Index (ICI) retreated to the bearish zone last month, dragged down by concerns over intensified geopolitical conflicts, the direction of the Federal Reserve (Fed) and Thailand's slowing economy.
Zico eyed for coaching job
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 07/08/2024
» Former Thailand striker Kiatisak Senamuang is among the frontrunners for the under-23 national team's coaching job.
The twin challenges of 'climate finance'
Oped, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Published on 07/08/2024
» As I am writing this in early August, climate finance is becoming a trendier topic in Thailand's financial and business sector. I suspect this is partly due to two recent developments: the upcoming Climate Change Act (the draft of which is making the rounds via public hearing sessions), and the Excise Department's announcement in June 2024 that Thailand aims to become the second country in Asean, after Singapore, to collect carbon tax, which is slated to start at 200 baht per metric ton of CO₂ equivalent (tCO₂e).
Exim Bank offers cheap loans to halal exporters
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 07/08/2024
» The Export-Import Bank of Thailand (Exim Bank) has teamed up with the Islamic Bank of Thailand (IBank) to offer loans with interest rates lower than the prime rate to support the goal of becoming Asean's halal hub by 2028.