
Lockdown Easing Boosts Border Trade
Lockdown easing relieves the contraction of border trade and its value is likely to exceed 1 trillion baht this year, according to the Department of Foreign Trade.
Lockdown easing relieves the contraction of border trade and its value is likely to exceed 1 trillion baht this year, according to the Department of Foreign Trade.
Commercial fishermen from 22 coastal provinces urged the government to keep promise in helping them solve problems, which they believed stemmed from stringent measures taken to counter Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.
The Anti-Corruption Organization of Thailand (ACT) planned to organize an event to mark the National Anti-Corruption Day on Sept 11.
Eighty-three days without local infection of the coronavirus disease 2019 does not guarantee that Thailand is free of the disease, said the director-general of the Disease Control Department.
Seven suspected insurgents were killed separate clashes with government forces in the southern province of Pattani over the weekend, said Col Pramote Prom-in, spokesman of the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc)’s Region 4 Forward Command.
Student leader Parit “Penguin” Chiwarak was released on bail after he had been arrested yesterday on multiple charges including sedition.
Thailand reported zero new coronavirus cases and no new deaths on Saturday.
Thai authorities have tightened up disease control measures at border crossing in the southern province of Yala after Malaysia has recorded higher COVID-19 cases
Thailand on Friday reported 17 new coronavirus cases, the highest in 70 days, but all are imported infections found in quarantine centres.
About 69,000 Thai people who had been stranded in other countries already arrived in their homeland, according to the Foreign Ministry.
Three agencies have projected that Thai food exports to contract two per cent in the first half of this year but to recover 3.6 per cent in the second half of this year to reach one trillion baht in value for the whole year.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha convened the first meeting of the Centre for Economic Situation Administration while the private sector urged for immediate help for SMEs.