Cambodia Business Council in Thailand (CBC) and Thai Business Council in Cambodia (TBCC) entered into an official partnership to promote trade and investment between the two neighbouring Southeast Asian nations. This comes just over three months since Cambodia on May 20 launched the CBC in Bangkok to serve as a one-stop centre for business trade […]
Read MoreThailand’s headline consumer price index (CPI) unexpectedly dropped for the first time in five months, down 0.02% in August from a year earlier, due mainly to government subsidies, the commerce ministry said on Monday. The reading compared with a forecast for a rise of 0.34% in a Reuters poll and followed July’s 0.45% increase. The CPI was […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 — Public Bank Bhd has extended its PBe QR merchant acceptance service to support DuitNow QR Cross Border Payment between Malaysia and Thailand. It is the first bank in Malaysia to enable the DuitNow QR Cross Border Payment which facilitates retail-based QR payment between the two countries that would pave the […]
Read MoreThe Tourism and Sports Ministry vows to open the whole country without quarantine by January next year, but such a move largely depends on nationwide herd immunity. Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, the tourism and sports minister, said Bangkok was scheduled to reopen in October as part of the second phase for the country, but this phase has […]
Read MoreThe government needs to revamp investment privileges to support the smooth development of three new economic corridors that are instrumental to increasing investment and rehabilitating the economy over the next 5-6 years, says a central planner. According to Anek Memongkol, deputy secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Council, the Northern Economic Corridor (NEC), […]
Read MoreThe baht opened at 32.46 to the US dollar on Monday, strengthening from last week’s closing rate of 32.62. The Thai currency is likely to move between 32.35 and 32.55 during the day and between 32.25 and 32.75 this week, Krungthai Bank market strategist Poon Panichpibool said. Poon predicted that the baht would drift sideways […]
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