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Land auctions prove lucrative for Treasury
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 01/10/2024
» The Treasury Department has reported its highest revenue collection in nearly a century due to greater numbers of land lease auctions and renewals of major lease contracts.
Buyer's market
Lamonphet Apisitniran and Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 02/09/2024
» More vehicles with fewer signs of wear entering the used car market is not always good news for sellers, although buyers certainly appreciate it.
Water worries
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 23/10/2023
» After flooding in many provinces last month, the Thai economy and its crucial export sector face another threat as the weather becomes more arid -- drought.
Sounding the alarm on zero-dollar tours
Business, Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 19/04/2023
» As a popular tourism destination, Thailand expects to welcome at least 25 million foreigners this year, with roughly 5 million from China, representing 50% of the Chinese visitor total in 2019.
TAT prepares new phase of subsidies
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 20/10/2022
» The new phase of the domestic tourism subsidy programme is being drafted with an additional 3-4 million hotel rooms, double the number in the fourth phase, which is scheduled to end this month, as the government aims to push GDP growth to 3.3% this year.
Jack Ma gives up power, escapes Beijing’s crosshairs
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/07/2022
» Jack Ma is taking a weeks-long tour in Europe after largely disappearing from public view for almost two years, adding to signs that China’s government is easing pressure on the entrepreneur as he steps back from a business empire that had made him one of the country’s most powerful people.
Project aims to ease farmers' fertiliser woes
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 21/06/2022
» The Institute for Agro-Based Industries, a unit under the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI), has joined hands with Kasetsart University to develop organic fertilisers, with the aim of helping farmers bearing the higher cost of imported chemical fertilisers.
Weighing the consequences
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Dusida Worrachaddejchai and Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 19/10/2020
» What is the real cost for tourists when planning an outbound trip to Thailand in the Covid-19 era?
Cleaning up the Energy Ministry
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 28/07/2020
» Since the resignation of Energy Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong, the vacant post has been highly sought after by ambitious power brokers not for its budget, one of the smallest in government, but for its control of lucrative energy contracts plagued by graft and corruption.
Worry goes viral
Asia focus, Patpon Sabpaitoon and Yu Hsiang Wang, Published on 17/02/2020
» The coronavirus that emerged late last year in central China has taken a terrible toll of human lives, but as efforts to contain it gather momentum, attention is turning to the health of the Chinese, Asian and global economies. How sick are they and how long might a full recovery take?