Environment and land
Rice thefts worry farmers amid high prices
Farmers are putting up their guard against rice thefts after several cases have been reported this year in the wake of high prices. Noosin Damri, a farmer in Warin Chamrap district of Ubon Ratchathani province, on Monday (Nov, 5) lodged a complaint at the Huay Khayung police ...
NLA discusses EEC and national progress
The deputy prime minister has reiterated government achievements over the past four years at a dinner talk organized by the National Legislative Assembly’s (NLA) Welfare Committee. The dinner was chaired by NLA President Pornpetch Wichitcholchai who remarked that over the past four years the assembly ...
Itiporn Lakarnchua
Crude palm oil for power considered
The Energy Ministry is considering using a surplus of crude palm oil this year to replace fossil fuels for power generation at two state-run plants in Chachoengsao and Ratchaburi.The tentative plan is to be implemented at Bang Pakong power plant, owned by the Electricity Generating ...
Yuthana Praiwan
Move to set up educational institutes that can develop manpower for EEC
Thailand’s higher-education sector is shifting gears towards the future – setting sights on new engines of growth as well as the much-vaunted Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).“We will have to prepare courses that respond to the development of target industries in the EEC,” Office of Higher ...
Chularat Saengpassa
Finding ways to beat farm debt
The farm sector has been a driving engine behind the country’s economic growth, but at the same time, debt among farmers keeps rising. The main farm product is rice. Last year, the value of rice traded was 174.5 billion baht, which is around 12.89% of ...
Apinya Wipatayotin
EEC Office ordered to study province expansion
The Industry Ministry has ordered the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Office to conduct a feasibility study for expanding the EEC into new provinces to further drive investment demand in the industrial sector. The plan is to expand into surrounding provinces. The corridor spans 110,168 rai ...
Lamonphet Apisitniran
EEC threat to water resources
The risk of water scarcity is looming in the East, thanks mainly to a boom in industrial development in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC). Experts have been expressing concerns that the rising demand for water in the three EEC provinces – Chon Buri, Rayong and ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
NLA panel gives nod to land tax bill
A bill on a land and buildings tax, that was stuck in a National Legislative Assembly (NLA) standing committee for more than a year, has finally won the panel’s approval and is expected to go before lawmakers for a second reading within two weeks.Keep reading ...
Wichit Chantanusornsiri
Thailand Board of Investment's Incentive Schemes Set to Support Infrastructure Development for EEC
To drive concrete development of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) has recently approved investment incentive scheme for the bidding winners of U-Tapao Airport’s Passenger Terminal 3 and Digital Park Thailand (EECd) development projects, two among six major development projects in ...
