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Most entrepreneurs want cash not digital wallet in 10,000-baht handout scheme

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters MOST SMALL- AND MEDIUM-SIZED entrepreneurs would prefer the much-heralded, yet-delayed populist handout project use cash rather than digital wallets as planned by the ruling Pheu Thai, according to Office of Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion acting director-general Panita Shinawatra. Panita, a niece of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra,

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PM annoyed 10,000 baht digital wallet scheme stuck with graft-busters

  PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin said this morning (Feb. 3) at Don Mueang Airport before flying to Sri Lanka for an official visit that although the Thai people cannot wait any longer for the 10,000 baht digital wallet project to start, his government is still waiting for a recommendation from the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC),

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Pheu Thai’s popularity might ebb over digital wallet policy

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI COULD probably lose their sustained popularity among constituents nationwide should the liberal party have to borrow money to fund their campaign-pledged 10,000-baht digital wallet policy, partisan sources said today (Apr.17). The Pheu Thai has today submitted facts and figures pertaining to the party’s promised populist policy, among

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