BANGKOK (Bangkok Post) – A new daily train service between Bangkok and Ban Klong Luk border station in Sa Kaeo province will start running on July 1, the State Railway of Thailand announced. For in depth analysis of Cambodian Business, visit Capital Cambodia There will be four trips a day, two in each direction, acting SRT […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – Kasikornbank subsidiary KVision had earmarked US$245 million to invest in Thai and foreign startups, particularly those in Vietnam. Kasikornbank, Thailand’s second-largest lender, is partnering with state-run Vietnam’s Business Startup Support Center (BSSC) to help Thai and Vietnamese startups with their regional expansion plans, Nikkei Asian Review reported. Following a memorandum of understanding signed […]
Read MoreThe Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) is calling on the Bank of Thailand to launch new measures to rein in the baht’s rapid gains after the currency hit a more than six-year high, aiming to prevent the export slump from deepening. “The baht is making wild swings and is strong,” said chairman Supant Mongkolsuthree. “The […]
Read MoreThe use of free trade agreement (FTA) privileges and the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) by Thai exporters amounted to US$24.27 billion in the first four months of 2019, up 5% from the same period last year. According to a Foreign Trade Department report, FTA privilege use accounted for $22.54 billion, up 3.9% year-on-year from […]
Read MoreThe Excise Department is conducting a study into the best ways to collect taxes from the cashed-up providers of online games, movies and music. However, the targets would probably not include e-sports, which are online games but recognised as a sport under the Sports Authority of Thailand Act 2015, and servers of online games operating overseas, […]
Read MoreKasikorn Research Centre (KResearch) has lowered its forecast for Thai GDP growth to 3.1 per cent from its initial projection of 3.7 per cent. The reduction is due to the lacklustre performance of the export sector, which has been hit by slowing global trade in the wake of a simmering trade war between the US […]
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