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Pension tension as Thailand eyes 65
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 20/10/2025
» The country's working-age demographics are a topic of widespread debate, with Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul floating the idea of raising the retirement age from 60 to 65.
Ministry rejigs conditions of retirement lottery
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 08/10/2024
» The Finance Ministry has adjusted the conditions for the retirement lottery project, allowing retirees to purchase tickets for this lottery as a means of continuous savings for another 10 years.
Expansion of retirement lottery eligibility mooted
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 01/07/2024
» The Finance Ministry may consider expanding the group of people eligible to purchase retirement lottery tickets.
Focusing on foreigners
Business, Molpasorn Shoowong, Published on 25/09/2023
» Thailand has long been a popular destination among tourists and long-stay travellers, including expatriates and retirees.
Taking workers out of retirement
Business, Pitsinee Jitpleecheep, Published on 23/09/2019
» In the last century or so, people in industrialised societies have stopped working at age 60 and begun life among the "elderly", spending time gardening, travelling and taking care of grandchildren at home. But times are changing.
Second-half strategies
Business, Darana Chudasri & Oranan Paweewun, Published on 15/07/2019
» Thailand scrambled through a double whammy of internal and external factors during the first half of 2019.
Ensuring a comfortable nest egg
Business, Oranan Paweewun, Published on 11/03/2019
» Most retirees rely on savings accumulated over their working life, but longer life expectancy and higher costs of living could fan fears that the nest egg will come up short.
Egat on the ropes
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 09/07/2018
» The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) is showing signs of decline as the 49-year-old wholly owned state utility struggles to tighten costs and reorganise in the wake of market decentralisation and private competition.