The Department of Consumer Affairs says that 80 percent of the complaints it receives from the public is regarding telecommunications service providers. This was revealed by the department’s director U Myint Cho during a press conference earlier this week. There are currently four companies providing telecommunications services in the country: Myanma Posts and Telecommunications, Oredoo, […]
Read MoreTHE RECENT escalation of the US-China trade war may lead Thai exports to grow by only 0.5 per cent in 2019, warned Aat Pisanwanich, director of the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce’s Centre for International Trade Studies (CITS). Meanwhile, Bank of Thailand’s assistant governor for corporate strategy and group relations, Chantavarn Sucharitakul said […]
Read MoreECONOMIC growth is expected to take a heavy hit due to the rising number of the elderly and the country urgently needs to tackle it by cutting in half the number of military personnel, increasing the number of foreign labourers and employing increased automation in production, Somkiat Tangkitvanich, president of Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), […]
Read MoreExports are expected to record their lowest growth in four years as a result of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and the renewed Sino-US trade war. Aat Pisanwanich, director of the Center for International Trade Studies at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, said the latest study puts export growth this year at […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures rose more than 1% for a second day of gains on Tuesday, supported by a weaker ringgit and expectated higher demand in May. The ringgit, palm’s currency of trade, weakened by 0.2% against the dollar on Tuesday evening. A weaker ringgit usually supports palm oil by making it cheaper […]
Read MoreTHE Consumer Price Index (CPI) in March 2019 decreased by 0.05 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y), compared to March 2018, said the Department of Economic Planning and Development (JPKE) under the Ministry of Finance and Economy (MoFE) in a press statement yesterday. The JPKE statement also said that prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages decreased by […]
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