Bangkok Post

Thailand’s economy probably shrank again in the first quarter of this year, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, as coronavirus outbreaks hurt consumption and tourism, slowing the pace of the economic recovery.Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy, which is heavily reliant on tourism, is believed to have ...

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has downgraded its outlook for domestic trips and tourism receipts this year because of the economic downturn, with the third wave undermining domestic tourism.TAT governor Yuthasak Supasorn said the country needs to maintain the momentum of the 90.5 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

The annual toxic haze season in over, and now that the public has into forgotten about it, there’s another health hazard — known as Covid-19 — to worry about.The pandemic is expected to begin petering out months (or at worst, a year) after the world ...

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. ...

Thailand’s long-standing business-as-usual approach to local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), will soon be a thing of the past. After nearly three decades of flexible engagement with the so-called “not-for-profit organisations”, the Thai government has recently come up with a draft bill ...

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 ...

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 ...

The central bank left its key interest rate unchanged at a record low of 0.50% on Wednesday, as expected, preserving its limited ammunition as the economy struggles with a third wave of coronavirus infections.The latest outbreak has slowed domestic activity for the tourism-reliant economy at ...