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The government will provide grants and tax exemptions to private companies in a bid to promote research and development (R&D), especially for projects that serve the public interest.The Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council (NXPO) unveiled the government’s plan to ...

Despite the efforts of the government, exploitation in Thai fisheries still occurs owing to lax inspections, the withholding of wages and evasive reflagging of vessels, the programme Undercover Asia finds out.Aung Ye Tun was just 17 years old when he was tricked and forced to ...

.The Cabinet has approved in principle three tourism campaigns, aimed to kick start the recovery of the tourism sector from July to October.Keep watching ...

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha lauded Thailand and its people for their resilience amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, as the Global COVID-19 Index (GCI) shows Thailand is the second best nation in coping with the pandemic.Keep watching ...

The Commerce Ministry is seeking more than 6 billion baht to fund various projects aimed primarily at helping farmers increase sales by improving their product distribution channels, a source at the ministry said.Funding for the programmes will be taken out of the 400-billion-baht budget that ...

A leading business hotel in Bangkok is sprucing up rooms, restaurants and hallways to meet new hygiene and safety standards as it prepares to welcome the first trickle of regular customers — foreign airline crews — in August.“This is now a priority, including deep cleaning ...

This moment is a uniquely testing time for us all. The speed at which Covid-19 has spread across the world and the severity of the disruption to the global economy have been unprecedented.With the pandemic affecting every element of business, from the robustness of supply ...

The Covid-19 crisis has had a massive impact on household debt and it is expected to rise to more than 80 per cent of GDP, the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), a state think-tank, has warned.Thai household debt stood at 79.8 per cent ...

The National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) has employed Chulalongkorn University to study and come up with a plan for a Sustainable Future City (SFC), the council’s deputy secretary-general Anek Memongkol said.The study, for which Bt9.5 million has been earmarked, will take 12 months ...

It’s been over a week since the disappearance of Wanchalearm Satsaksit, an exiled Thai activist living in Cambodia, touched off a heated debate in Thai social media and beyond.Mr Wanchalearm has been an ardent critic of the current government and its military predecessor; he fled ...