Disasters and emergency response

A former finance minister on Monday submitted a petition to the Supreme Admin Court asking it to revoke cabinet approval for a 700-billion-baht loan to combat the kingdom’s public health crisis.The cabinet recently approved the draft of an executive decree authorising the government to borrow ...

The value of Thai exports in April had hit more than US$20 billion for three consecutive months, recording a growth of 13.09 per cent – the highest in 36 months.At the same time, Thai imports rose by 29.79 per cent to $21.25, especially the import ...

The third wave of the Covid-19 outbreak is the most severe and worrisome, especially in financial terms, because many businesses have been forced to close again.Though the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 came to Thailand from Wuhan, China in January last year, the UK variant of ...

Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn endorsed a $16 billion borrowing plan to shield Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy from the impact of a raging coronavirus outbreak that’s threatening a nascent recovery and plans to reopen borders to tourists.The government can borrow 500 billion baht ($16 billion) in ...

South-east Asian countries, including nations that managed to control the coronavirus last year, are struggling to contain recent outbreaks as new variants and vaccine shortages leave populations exposed.Thailand’s cumulative caseload has more than quadrupled since 1 April, rising to almost 130,000, after infections spread in ...

Thailand’s largest industrial estate developer is restructuring its investments to align with the country’s rapidly changing business landscape amid the coronavirus pandemic.Amata has decided to revise its business plan to invest 5 billion baht ($160 million) over five years to 2023 in Thailand and Vietnam, ...

Some hospitals were being forced to postpone second rounds of Covid-19 inoculations as Siam Bioscience was falling behind in its scheduled production of the AstraZeneca vaccine, a news report said Monday.Public hospitals such as Vajira, Chulabhorn, and Thammasat announced that they were short of vaccine ...

Thailand’s unemployment in the first quarter rose to around 760,000, or 1.96 per cent, the highest since the pandemic started, the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) reported Monday.The unemployment rate rose again after a small recovery in the second half ...

The Social Security Office (SSO) has assured employees covered under Section 33 of the Social Security Act (SSA) that the vaccination drive against Covid-19 will begin in June.Its 80 contracted hospitals across the country are ready to provide them with the service, said SSO spokesman ...

Earlier this month results from a study by consultancy firm Verisk Maplecroft deemed densely populated Asia as the most environmentally at-risk area in the world. How badly did the region fare?Well, of the top 100 cities in danger — Jakarta topped the list — 99 ...