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New business registrations up 11% in February
February saw 6,356 new private companies registered across the country, an increase of 11 percent from the same month last year, but a 9-percent drop from January, when 6,965 firms were logged.Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
BOI Promotes Investment in Robotics and Automation Industry
In recent times, robotics is one of the most talked-about topics in various industries. Robotics and automation technology is proved to be valuable for a wide range of industries, since it will reduce and replace human labor, especially in unsafe workplace and it also can ...
The Nation Reporter
Exponential technology seen as driver of Thai growth
Exponential technology will play the leading role in driving Thailand’s economic growth in the next decade due to the advent of 5G telecom, cheap human genome sequencing, solar energy, cellular agriculture, among others, according to private sector executives.Keep reading ...
Nophakhun Limsamarnphun
Cargill welcomes Thailand 4.0, reaffirms commitment
Addressing the Thailand Board of Investment, Cargill expressed its strong support of the Thai government’s “Thailand 4.0” economic model. Cargill also affirmed its strong commitment to continue investing in the Thai economy and contributing to the development of the country’s agriculture sector.Keep reading ...
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PM talks trade, security with Turnbull
The Thai and Australian prime ministers held a bilateral meeting for the first time in five years during the Asean-Australia special summit in Sydney, with focus on upgrading the economic relationship and regional security cooperation.Keep reading ...
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Bank helps connect Chinese with EEC
Singapore-based United Overseas Bank (UOB) is drumming up interest among Chinese investors to seize opportunities in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) and expects more and more Chinese companies to set up in the country’s flagship economic zone.Keep reading ...
Pace picks up on fast train project
The Ministry of Transport (MOT) expects to have 13 contracts under the first phase of the Thailand-China high-speed train project put out for bidding this year. Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith said that, in total, 14 contracts would be signed for the 253-kilometre first phase, from ...
Citizens fault officials over smog warnings
The shortage of PM2.5 monitoring stations blamed for lack of pollution alerts. The authorities have failed to provide accurate and up-to-date air pollution warnings to the people in the midst of the intensifying Northern smog problem, Chiang Mai citizens have complained. The administrator of the ...
Air pollution eases in North, but increases in Bangkok
Smog has receded in the North, but the level of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) has increased in the Bangkok metropolitan area, where it is lingering around the safe limit of 50 micrograms per cubic metre of air.The measurement of PM2.5 levels as ...
Food security report points to increasing malnourishment and obesity in Thailand
More than 815 million people around the world still suffer from malnutrition and hunger – 6.5 million in Thailand – but on the other hand 25 per cent of the population in developed countries were obese, including 5 million in Thailand, pointing to glaring inequalities ...
