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Representatives from the private sector urge the government to join CPTPP negotiations despite opposition from the public
Analysts and economic groups told Thai Enquirer this week that the Thai government should join formal negotiations on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in August. “We should enter the negotiation,” an economist and independent analyst Somchai...
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Monday’s reopening saw more than 18.5 million people using tracking app; Songkran could be in July
More than 18.5 million users registered for the government's tracking app as businesses reopened nationwide on Monday. Approximately 134,000 businesses have joined the platform as well.Users have also used the app 90 million times since it was launched in...
Current Affairs
Viral video allegedly shows army officer threatening soldier for revealing corruption
A video, which surfaced on Thursday, allegedly showing an army officer being threatened by his superiors for revealing corruption within the military has gone viral with netizens saying it shows the nepotism and corruption rampant in the military.The...
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Tourism ministry to propose plans for reopening domestic tourism on Friday
Ministry of Tourism & Sports will propose plans to reopen domestic tourism in June even though the State of Emergency (SOE) has been extended until June 30.Tourism and Sports Minister Pipat Ratchakitprakan said on Tuesday that his ministry will...
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EXCLUSIVE: Up to 300,000 people could lose their jobs if government fails to help automotive industry
The Automotive Industry Club (AIC), part of the Federation of Thai Industries, estimated that around 300,000 people could lose their jobs if the government does not help the sector.The AIC said it expects the country’s car production to...
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Half of CEOs surveyed by local media are unhappy with government measures
At least one-third of chief executive officers in Thailand expects the coronavirus outbreak to be contained within the second quarter of 2020.However, more than half expressed their lack of confidence in the government’s measures, according to a survey...
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Exclusive: former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra reflects on the 2014 coup
Yingluck Shinawatra is the former Prime Minister of Thailand who came into power in 2011. She was removed from office by the Constitutional Court and her government was overthrown by a military coup in 2014.What
were you thinking 15 days...
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Thailand discovers one new coronavirus case in the last 24 hours; less than 100 remain in hospital
The Thai government said on
Wednesday that it had discovered one new coronavirus cases in the last 24
hours.That brings the total number of cases discovered in the country to a total of 3,034 cases.There were no new fatalities
with the death...
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Opinion: Unforgetting and confronting the truth of state-sanctioned violence
“Thailand needs to heal.”Those were the words that I clearly remember one of my teachers saying, 10 years ago after the end of the red shirt protest, leaving death, destruction, and a fragmented society in its wake.Being...
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Opinion: Never again, never, again
Let me be clear.I am against all kinds of coups.Both military, and judiciary.I was a university student
back then. During the night of the crackdown on May 19, I was in Ayutthaya
because my house in Pathum Thani...
