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More parents will be allowed to seek loans from the Finance Ministry’s Student Loan Fund (SLF) as it boosts loan finance and eligibility criteria following the impact of Covid-19 on household incomes.Some funding criteria will be adjusted to cover more borrowers and each student will ...

The economy contracted at an accelerated pace in March due to Covid-19 measures, with sharp drops reported in almost all areas, according to the Bank of Thailand.Inflation fell into negative territory for the first time since June 2017, said Don Nakornthab, senior director of the  ...

The government has launched a COVID-19 information hotline in three languages for migrant workers in Thailand that also accept petitions for their unemployment claims with the Social Security Office (SSO).Keep watching ...

The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) research centre forecasts that the price of rice and other agricultural products will increase in May, while the rubber price will fall.The BAAC expects to see rising prices for paddy rice, jasmine rice, sticky rice, maize, raw ...

The cabinet on Tuesday approved an action plan for food processing industry development for 2019-27 and a supporting budget of 6.6 billion baht.According to Rachada Dhanadirek, the government spokeswoman, the action plan aims to upgrade Thailand to become a hub of processed food in Asean ...

The committee supervising government expenditure will come up with guidelines on community-level economic activities within May, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said on Thursday (April 30).He explained that Bt600 billion of the Bt1-trillion loan taken by the Finance Ministry will be used for cash handouts ...

Dr Thanarak Phliphat, deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control, said that with the return of dengue fever it may soon become tougher for doctors to diagnose and detect Covid-19 infections.This is because both viruses show different symptoms based on the age group. For ...

The overall damage Thailand’s national economy, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, is currently estimated at about one trillion baht, while business confidence for the first quarter of this year has dropped to 47.2, which is the lowest in almost two years, according to the forecast ...

Analysis of air quality in Bangkok since the Thai government began enforcing strict social isolation measures has found significant drop in dangerous pollution levels of more than 20 per cent, as compared with the same time last year.The average levels of PM2.5 – tiny atmospheric ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest global challenges in generations. Governments and monetary authorities are correctly using every policy lever at their disposal to prevent a grave public-health emergency from becoming an even deeper economic, political, and social crisis. But as we rush ...