Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Thailand reached $6 billion last year, up 10 percent from the year before, according to a Thai Embassy official. Jirawuth Suwanna-arj, minister counsellor at the Office of Commercial Affairs in the Thai Embassy, announced the figure yesterday at an event sponsored by the Thai Ministry of Commerce. “We project that […]
Read MoreTHAILAND and Cambodia are working towards the goal of trade flows between the neighbours reaching US$15 billion in 2020, a jump of almost 10 per cent from the US$6.16 billion booked in 2017, a senior Thai trade official said on the eve of the sixth meeting of the Joint Trade Committee (JTC) today. BRISK BUSINESS […]
Read MoreThe cabinet on Tuesday approved a combined 6.34 billion baht for projects to facilitate the ease of doing business and upgrade the country’s competitiveness. Nathporn Chatusripitak, a spokesman for Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, said of the total, 3.29 billion baht will be set aside for the Science and Technology Ministry, 2.25 billion for the Digital […]
Read MoreAll 7-Eleven convenience stores nationwide now accept Visa credit-card payments. The announcement comes as the Bank of Thailand plans to allow commercial banks to set up banking agents in order to provide financial-service points that are closer to people’s homes than branch operations. Many observers speculate that 7-Eleven has the potential to be a banking […]
Read MoreThe value of exports rose by 17.56% year on year in January, the largest increment in 62 months, Commerce Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong said on Wednesday. Exports last month were estimated at US$20.10 billion. It made a good start for this year and the baht’s appreciation had no impact, he said. “The target export growth for […]
Read MoreThailand’s mobile traffic is the second-highest in Southeast Asia, research by iPrice shows, collating data from more 1,000 eCommerce players in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam. The rise of mobile e-commerce in the region appears unstoppable, iPrice said this week. In the past 12 months, mobile traffic has increased by an average […]
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