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The Thai Industries Sentiment Index rose to a forty four month high from 104.7 points in November 2009 to 113.6 points in December, Federation of Thai Industries chairman Santi Vilassakdanont said on Wednesday. The index had now been above one hundred for 3 consecutive months and was at its highest ...

Bangkok Airways believes the worst of the economic and travel decline is over and is gradually restoring some of the flights and routes it had cut in recent months. The privately owned airline will increase flights on its Bangkok-Rangoon route to eleven per week by the end of this month, from 7 curr...

Thailand's forecast e-commerce market growth rate of forty per cent this year seems a reasonable one, now that more companies are resorting to the Internet to boost business. Low operating costs as well as the broader scale of clients that can be reached are the reasons behind many companies' invest...

General Motors (Thailand) Tuesday dismissed speculation it is on the brink of bankruptcy, after the Obama administration gave the US automaker sixty days to produce a better turn around plan. Inevitably, any US Government decision on GM would be felt by its affiliates, said Steve Carlisle, the Thail...

 Tourist arrivals in Thailand may fall less than was originally feared this year however tax revenue may be worse than expected due to the severity of the economic slump Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Tuesday. "We had expected the arrivals number to fall eighteen  or twenty ...

Unemployed people, those risking layoffs or fresh graduates can apply for a vocational training plus financial assistance through a special Government project from now till March 24th. Financed by a budget of 6.9 billion Baht the project will cover 240,000 people this year. Applicants must be betwee...

 The NEB is duty-bound to protect the environment and, as such, it should not appeal the Rayong Administrative Court's ruling on the Map Ta Phut pollution problem. But it can seek a reprieve by asking for an extension of the sixty-day period set by the court to declare a pollution control area ...

The Government collected just 451.52 billion baht of revenue during the first five months of fiscal year 2009 (October 2008 - February 2009), 88.58 billion baht or 16.4 per cent lower than the initial projection, Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) director-general Somchai Sujjapongse said Tuesday. "This was...

The listing of 13 herbs as hazardous substances and delisting of sulphur as a safe import has run into a further hurdle after the Administrative Court found the announcement to be unlawful. The court on Wednesday issued an injunction suspending the announcement on the listing of the herbs and delist...