Ready-to-eat meals not under price control
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Kittiratt Na Ranong has admitted that ready-to-eat meals cannot be placed on the government’s price control list due to a wide range of production costs among More...
Salary raise to 15,000 baht for civil servants postponed to 2014
The Cabinet has during yesterday’s meeting decided to complete the implementation of the THB 15,000 salary base for civil servants with a bachelor’s degree by January 2014 as well as adjust salaries of other More...
Indonesia quake triggers tsunami alert in Thailand
Thailands National Disaster Warning Centre has issued an evacuation order for residents and tourists along the Andaman coast after a huge earthquake struck off Indonesian Sumatra on Wednesday. More...
Thailand tightens security ahead of New Year Celebrations
The Thai capital, Bangkok and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (City Hall, the BMA) is on high alert with increased security measures set for this month’s Songkran festival April 12-15. More...
Thailand’s Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) rises for 2nd consecutive month
Thailand’s Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) in January rose for the second consecutive month after the situation returned to normal following the flood crisis last year, said Yanyong Puangrach, Permanent Secretary More...
Thai PM advocates a flood proof Thailand in Davos
Thai Prime Minister has convinced international business leaders that Thailand has prepared plans to prevent future flood crises and that the country has potential to be centre of the Association of Southeast Asian More...
Thailand Public Holidays in 2012
List of public holidays to be observed in Thailand in the year 2012 is as follows: *Monday-Tuesday, 2-3 January 2012 – Substitution for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day (Saturday 31 December 2011 and More...
Flooding in Bangkok to Persist for One Month
Energy Minister Pichai Naripthaphan said that the flooding situation in Bangkok is likely to persist for one month, while the water level in the city is expected to begin to subside after the middle of November. Minister More...
Flooding Situation Unlikely to be Critical in Bangkok
Since more flood water has been drained out from various canals in Bangkok to the sea, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra believed that flooding in the city was unlikely to reach a critical stage. More...
Flood caused economic losses of over Bt400Bln ($13Bln).
Initial damages from the flood crisis on the Thai economy are likely to exceed 400 billion baht, excluding successive impacts and chain of effects to providing goods and service to customers, said Pornsil Patchritanakul, More...
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