Current Affairs
Opposition MPs call on government to listen to demand of student protesters
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan and Interior Minister Anupong Paochind have to listen to the student protestors, an opposition MP said on Thursday.Teeratchai Panthumas, a Move Forward Party MP, opened the parliamentary session on Thursday...
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Thailand to miss stimulus borrowing this fiscal year, says PDMO
The Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) says Thailand will miss the COVID-19 stimulus borrowing target this fiscal year, ending in September, as the government is spending too long identifying the right projects.The PDMO needs to wait for projects to...
Current Affairs
Opinion: Joe Biden must clearly present his China policy or the free people of Asia will support Trump
The Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper the Apple Daily published an editorial this week arguing that Donald Trump must be reelected as the free world depends on his confrontational stance with China. (Read here)You might remember that the owner...
Current Affairs
Students rally in Bangkok and Pattani as leaders call for renewed protests
Hundreds of student protesters held rallies in Bangkok and Pattani late Wednesday as student leaders called for renewed protests in September.Student-led protests have gripped the country over the past two months with students calling for a rewrite of...
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Rubber industry stocks hike upward as rubber price soars
Stocks from rubber industry companies, such as Sri Trang Argo (STA), Thai Rubber Latex Group (TRUBB) and North East Rubber (NER), surged simultaneously on Wednesday's trade due to an increase in the price of rubber.The Rubber Authority of Thailand...
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NOBLE continues to surge after big lot transactions of 20 million shares
Shares of Noble Development PCL (NOBLE), a leading property developer, rose by 3 per cent on Wednesday morning trade after closing with a surge of 8.33 per cent on Tuesday as a response to the company’s big lot transactions. The...
Current Affairs
Opinion: We can’t really blame Predee, no one wants to work with Prawit
The government is running out of good people to work with.The hostile takeover of the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) by General Prawit Wongsuwan is beginning to backfire.Replacing an economic tsar like the former Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak was...
Covid-19
Thailand discovers eight new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday
Thailand’s government said on Wednesday that it had discovered eight new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours in state quarantine and alternate state quarantine.The Thai patients in state quarantine were returning from the US (2), Australia (1)...
Commentary
Opinion: The students must resist all urges towards militancy and learn from the past
At the height of Zhang Yimou's great masterpiece To Live, the cultural revolution is well underway. Academics and professionals are being hounded and hunted by Mao Zedong's Red Guards, who are mostly comprised of school and university children taking...
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Central Restaurant secures half of Brown Dessert shares to upsize food business
Central Plaza Hotel PCL (CENTEL) said this week that its food subsidiary, Central Restaurants Group (CRG), had purchased Brown Dessert company’s ordinary shares for 70 million baht, holding 51 per cent of the total shares. The purchase can be divided...
