By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul was today (June 15) taken to task for not trying to put an end to controversy over the TH-AI Passport project launched by Digital Economy & Society Minister Chaichanok Chidchob only because the latter is a son of the former’s boss, namely de facto Bhumajaithai boss
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Administrative Court asked to rule over govt’s 18.8 billion baht add-on budget for the poor
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE OFFICE OF the Ombudsman was today (June 8) asked to forward a petition to the Administrative Court to judge whether the Bhumjaithai-led government could legitimately finance the state welfare card project for the poor with any portion of the yet-contentious 400 billion baht borrowed funding currently provided under an
Read moreHouse votes to reject setting up panel to study Land Bridge project
THE House of Representatives today (May 29) voted to reject a motion on setting up a committee to study the Land Bridge project while MPs of the coalition government, particularly Bhumjaithai Party, urged proponents of this panel to summarise they views and submit it to the cabinet for consideration, Naewna newspaper said. After a
Read morePublic hearing held on new train line to support Land Bridge project
IN A step forward towards the realisation of the 1-trillion-baht Land Bridge project, a public hearing was held in Chumphon for the construction of Chumphon-Ranong railway line connecting the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea, Naewna newspaper said today (May 23). The main goal of this rail development is to upgrade logistics infrastructure
Read moreHold three-tier referendum on Land Bridge project: Former MP
THE government was urged to hold a three-tier referendum on the Land Bridge project as people in the South have not been fully informed about the advantages and disadvantages of this megascheme despite a NIDA opinion poll showing majority of the respondents in this region support it while NGOs and various organisations openly oppose
Read moreLand Bridge project to be tabled to cabinet soon
AS PRIME Minister/Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is keen on further considering the 1-trillion-baht Land Bridge project, the Transport Ministry will be tabling the scheme to the cabinet sometime between June and July with the aim of starting it within this year, Amarin TV said today (April 25). The Land Bridge project is designed to
Read moreThailand to spend 10bn baht to buy bad household debt, stocks edge up nearly 1%
By Reuters and published by CNA THE Bhumjaithai-led coalition government will spend 10 billion baht ($307 million) to buy bad debt this month, the Finance Minister said today (Oct. 9), as part of its plans to revive its sluggish economy. Thailand’s stubbornly high levels of household debt have shackled the economy for several years,
Read moreCopay cash being distributed on Oct. 29: Finance Minister
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas said the public will be able to use the cash from the copay project over two months from Oct. 29 onwards with details of the scheme to be tabled to the cabinet next week, Naewna newspaper and PPTVHD 36 said today (Oct. 1). After cabinet approval the public
Read moreAnutin dumbfounded over vote-wooing copay allegations
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER ANUTIN Charnvirakul said today (Sep.30) he was quite puzzled by fresh allegations that his Bhumjaithai-led government is merely fishing for popularity among the people with a copay project to be renewed and implemented nationwide just ahead of a general election anticipated around the upcoming March. The prime minister
Read moreNavy’s Chinese submarine project still undergoing ‘viability study’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said today (Nov. 27) the navy’s long-delayed project to buy a Chinese-built submarine is as yet being put on hold, pending a “viability study” on it. Phumtham said the navy’s plan to procure the 12.4 billion baht, Yuan-class S26T submarine without a German-made engine
Read moreMass petition against Thai-Khmer undersea project to be submitted to Govt
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A FRESH PETITION undersigned by over 100,000 people in opposition to a Thai-Cambodian MoU on a joint undersea natural resources development project will be submitted to the Pheu Thai-led government on the upcoming Friday. Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom confirmed today (Nov. 20) that the mass petition to which over
Read moreThai members to a joint undersea resources panel to be named ASAP
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER Maris Sangiampongsa confirmed today (Nov. 20) a group of persons will be named “as soon as possible” to sit on a Joint Technical Committee for a profit-sharing, undersea resources development project between Thailand and Cambodia. Maris stopped short of elaborating on the shortly-anticipated naming of members on
Read moreNewin snubs Thaksin’s casino promotion scheme
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO BHUMJAITHAI BOSS Newin Chidchob has categorically expressed his dissent to de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s sustained plan to promote casinos anywhere in Thailand, said a noted political critic over the weekend. During a hush-hush talk between the de facto Bhumjaithai and Pheu Thai bosses at the
Read more15 million ‘fragile’ people to get cash in lieu of digital wallet
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN ESTIMATED 15 MILLION Thai nationals will likely be granted 10,000 baht in cash each in lieu of a digital wallet with the same amount under a new Pheu Thai-led government, a partisan source said today (Aug. 21). Officially categorised as “fragile” groups of people, the 14.98 million people nationwide
Read moreDigital wallet project sales figures not being sent to Revenue Dept
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NO SALES VALUES OF merchandise traded under the Pheu Thai-initiated digital wallet project will be eventually accessed by the Revenue Department as widely feared by retailers and vendors anywhere, according to Deputy Finance Minister Julapun Amornvivat. The total sales values of goods to be sold by retailers and vendors ranging
Read moreDigital wallet project would not make Pheu Thai a very popular party: Academic
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE MUCH-HERALDED, YET-DELAYED, Pheu Thai-initiated digital wallet handout campaign would not help maintain much of partisan popularity, let alone promote it, among millions of people nationwide when it comes to their going to the polls next time around, according to an academic critic. Pornchai Theppanya, former dean of Ramkhamhaeng University’s
Read moreMore categories Of Goods Provided Under Digital Wallet Project
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MORE CATEGORIES OF merchandise are provided for people to buy under the Pheu Thai-initiated digital wallet project as of the start of the fourth quarter of this year, according to the Digital Government Development Agency. The newly-established DGA today (July 24) issued a statement to add supplementary categories to the
Read more99-year land lease to foreigners, digital wallet scheme will harm the country: Jatuporn
A FORMER MP/Red Shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan warned that allowing foreigners to lease land for 99 years because they have so requested would only benefit real estate companies that are unable to sell 1.3 million condo units, TV Channel 7 said today (July 12). Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin recently moved to relax property regulations
Read moreOnly 43 billion baht in Central Fund to finance digital wallet project
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NO MORE THAN A SUM OF 43 billion baht will be withdrawn from the government’s Central Fund for the current fiscal year to partly finance the digital wallet project, confirmed Prime Minister’s Office Minister Jakapong Sangmanee today (July 12). Jakapong contended that not as much as 100 billion baht to
Read moreDigital wallet project could probably turn from crisis to catastrophe: Pita
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MOVE FORWARD MP PITA Limjaroenrat today (July 11) cautioned that the much-heralded, long-delayed digital wallet project could probably be aggravated from a crisis to a catastrophe. During today’s House floor interpellations, the former Move Forward leader said the Pheu Thai-initiated populist handout campaign might probably turn the sustained financial crisis
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