Disasters
Pandemics
Data-centric culture key to handling challenges
Real-time data availability, automated data analytics, data-centric culture and skillsets, as well as digital transformation hold the key to helping organisations overcome difficulties in the wake of the pandemic, say leading private and state organisations.“Every business is a digital business that needs to have the ...
Suchit Leesa-Nguansuk
Boost jab confidence
The government needs to boost public confidence in its Covid-19 vaccination rollout plan immediately and ensure that more people take part in the campaign.Failure to do this will be disastrous.The government’s vaccination plan did not get off to a good start. With old problems unsolved ...
Editorial
Thailand to offer walk-in Covid vaccinations from June
Walk-in centres for vaccination against Covid-19 without appointment will be in place across the country by June, the Ministry of Public Health said Wednesday.“Many people wanted to be vaccinated but could not get an appointment via the online registration system,” said Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, the ...
BAAC rolls out measures to help clients hit by impact of Covid-19
The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) will offer a debt moratorium from six months up to a year to clients who are farmers, cooperatives, village funds or agricultural communities which have had debts with the bank as of April 1, 2021, in a ...
The Nation Reporter
Up to 80% of SMEs hit by lack of liquidity, 100,000 may close for good if Covid crisis persists
About 70 to 80 per cent of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are suffering from a lack of liquidity since the third Covid-19 wave hit Thailand in late March and 100,000 could close for good, warned Saengchai Theerakulwanich, president of the Federation of Thai SMEs, ...
The Nation Reporter
B2,000 handouts approved
The cabinet on Tuesday approved 2,000-baht handouts to registrants of We Win and We Love Each Other subsidy programmes and extended the validity to the end of June.Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said registrants of We Win would receive two 1,000 baht payments, a week apart. ...
Mongkol Bangprapa
Thai govt has THB300 billion in hand to tackle Covid crisis until Sept 30
The government has THB240 billion left over from the THB1 trillion economic stimulus loan, plus THB60 billion from the 2020 emergency budget to deal with the Covid-19 crisis until September 30.Thai govt has THB300 billion in hand to tackle Covid crisis until Sept 30Last Wednesday ...
The Nation Reporter
Thailand third time unlucky
The third wave of the pandemic has unnerved businesses who previously believed they would be able to recover this year after Covid-19 walloped their income in 2020.Complicated by a more contagious UK Covid-19 strain, the third wave has seen more than 1,000 infections a day ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Industries sentiment hits 8 month low on virus return
Thailand’s industries sentiment in April hit its lowest in eight months in the wake of the country’s worst coronavirus outbreak, and the government should borrow 1 trillion baht more to support the economy, the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) said on Monday.The FTI said its ...
Nearly half of Thai consumers plan to avoid using cash after pandemic ends: study
A study on consumer payment attitudes by Visa showed nearly half of all Thai consumers (45 per cent) were likely to avoid using cash after the Covid-19 pandemic ends.The study also delves into which activities Thai consumers are looking forward to spending on when recovery ...
The Nation Reporter
