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Commerce Ministry is running various projects to support upcycling businesses, adding value to products and services and promoting sustainability, according to Poonpong Naiyanapakorn, the director of the Trade Policy and Strategy Office (TPSO).
Southeast Asia could benefit from the US president-elect Donald Trump’s vow to impose 60% tariffs on Chinese goods, as the rapid shift in global supply chains is driving new investment into the region, according to Indonesia’s former finance minister, Dr. Muhamad Chatib Basri.
A major Myanmar ethnic rebel group said on Monday it was ready for talks with the junta to end more than a year of renewed fighting that has ravaged areas along the China border.
The operation continues for a fourth day to locate a French national, who fell into the reservoir behind the Rajjaprabha Dam in Surat Thani when a long-tailed boat, in which he was travelling with some friends, capsized on Saturday.
Police in Ratchaburi province have arrested a teacher at a school in Suan Phueng district for allegedly molesting nine young students. The action was in response to a complaint about the teacher’s behaviour filed by a group of parents.
Politics remains male-dominated in many countries around the world. Even in the United States no woman has, to date, been elected president. Meanwhile, in Asia, female representation in parliaments remains lower than the global average, despite some improvements.
Thailand’s household debt dropped in the second quarter of this year to 89.6% of GDP, from 90.7% in the first quarter, which is the first fall in three and a half years, according to Danucha Pichayanan, secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), today.
Unemployment in Thailand in the third quarter fell slightly to 414,000, from 429,000 in the previous three months quarter, but was higher than in the same period last year, when 401,000 people were reported to be jobless, according to the National Economic and Social Development Council.
Atthaya "Jeeno" Thitikul, a 21-year-old Thai professional golfer, has won the CME Group Tour Championship, earning her fourth career LPGA Tour victory and a historic US$4 million (Bt138 million) winner’s check, the largest first-place prize in women’s golf.
The Ratchamanu Task Force, based in Tak’s Mae Sot district, rescued 39 people this morning, mostly Sri Lankans, who claim they were lured into working in Myanmar’s Myawaddy town with false promises.
Police in the northern border province of Chiang Rai have arrested Samart Jenchaijitwanich, a former deputy spokesman of the Palang Pracharath Party, on money laundering charges.
The Thonburi Healthcare Group (THG) has issued a statement, addressed to the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), maintaining that it has nothing to do with the five healthcare projects in which Dr. Boon Vanasin has claimed to be investing.
Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has brushed aside a veiled threat of mass protests, if the government negotiates with Cambodia over joint development of the overlapping claim area in the Gulf of Thailand with the framework of MoU 44, which is signed by both parties.
Israel’s National Security Council (NRC) re-issued their travel advisory for Thailand on Sunday, citing a continuing threat to Israelis in the country. This follows an alert issued nearly two weeks ago.
Police and health officials in Phichit province will visit a monastery in Ban Noi sub-district of Pho Thale district today, to investigate the presence of 41 corpses, reported to be used in meditation course.
The Criminal Court has issued a warrant for the arrest of Samart Jenchaijitwanich, a former member of the Palang Pracharath party, for allegedly extorting money from iCon Group CEO Waratphol Waratvorakul.
