Beset by high commission fees imposed by foreign food delivery apps, many local restaurants dealing with the pandemic have adjusted their menus for online orders, sought customers via social media and looked to local delivery apps. A local web-based platform that signs up restaurants and provides delivery service, developed by new startup ShaRe, has recently […]
Read MoreThailand’s steel industry, already battling unstable prices, is edgy ascompetitors from China are all set to be back in business with full government support. Domestic steel producers will have to adjust rapidly and begin to cut production due to the impact of Covid-19 on downstream industries that have continuously slowed down production, suspension of automobile […]
Read MoreAs more people worry about catching coronavirus from touching cash and credit-card terminals, a onetime niche technology is roaring into the mainstream. Use of contactless mobile payments — services that once struggled to catch on in the U.S. — is surging as people come to see their phones as the safer way to pay. They’re […]
Read MoreThe number of people claiming unemployment benefits has almost doubled to 700,000 people from December last year, with 140,000 registering in March alone. Thousands of workers have lost their jobs following some factory closures amid the Covid-19 outbreak, according to the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare (DLPW). Apinya Sujarittanan, director-general of the department, on […]
Read MoreThe Commerce Ministry yesterday introduced Thong Fah low-priced mobile fruit stores in pickup trucks, the latest move to dispose of abundant fruit during the harvest season. Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said the mobile fruit store initiative, in partnership with Talaad Thai market, is starting with 350 participating mobile stores that will peddle fruit along sois […]
Read MoreThailand is likely to close this year with only 16 million international tourists and 60 million domestic trips, far below the pre-coronavirus targets of 40 million and 172 million respectively, according to Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). The estimates have the country losing almost 24 million tourists and 1.9 trillion baht in revenue compared with […]
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