BANGKOK, Dec 6 – Thailand’s severe flooding could put some 130,000 mainly outsourced workers at risk of being laid off as more than 13,000 companies cannot resume operations, according to the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare. Director-General Arthit Isamo of the Labour ministry’s Department of Labour Protection and Welfare said some 28,000 business operators […]
Sattahip Police arrested an entire family in East Pattaya in the early hours of Monday, accused of selling class 1 drugs. Officers from the station, which is situated outside of Pattaya, received information of the illegal family-run business and set up a covert operation which resulted in the arrest of several family members. Read more: […]
Under waters still almost two meters deep lies a disaster for multinationals and Thailand At 10 am on Nov. 11, Sukejawa Seiya, the vice president of the Japan External Trade Organization in Bangkok, made his daily measurement of the floodwaters covering hundreds of factories on the Ayutthaya plain north of Bangkok. The water was still […]
The consumer confidence index in Thailand plummeted to a 10-year record low due to the flood crisis’s impact on many sectors. A survey by the Economic and Business Forecast Center at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce or UTTC shows a steep decline in the consumer confidence index for three consecutive months, from […]
Images of a Thai Airways International Airbus stranded in deep floodwater at Don Mueang airport have caused misconceptions among many people outside Thailand that Bangkok is closed to air traffic. That has frustrated both airlines and the management of Suvarnabhumi Airport, the country’s gateway, where it is business as usual and flood prevention defences are […]
Internet giant Google has begun a pilot program, allowing users of its “Maps” service to look inside businesses. This tool is aimed to further the controversial Street View feature which already allows the public to access 360° images of streets. A spokesman for Google described the new feature: “Building on the Google Art Project, which […]
BANGKOK, 31 October 2011 (NNT) – Mr Prasit Vichaisuchat, Secretary of the Thai Boat Association and Managing Director Assistant of the River Side Bangkok Hotel said that the accompanying rate of the total 250 rooms in the riverside Bangkok hotels has dropped from the avarage rate of 70-75% to 0% due to booking cancellations by […]
Hundreds of small business owners in eastern China protested Thursday, throwing rocks and torching vehicles after a dispute over tax collections. State-run media said the riots broke out after the owner of a children’s clothing company in the two of Zhili, in Zhejiang province, refused to pay his taxes.
