Thailand’s Cabinet has approved the setting up of a National Digital Trade Platform and assigned the Office of the Public Sector Development Commission (OPDC) to work with related agencies and the Joint Standing Committee of Commerce, Industry and Banking (JSCCIB) to achieve this.
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha confirmed on February 8 that he will contest in the upcoming March 24 election as a candidate of the pro-military Palang Pracharat Party.
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha and his Malaysian counterpart Mahathir Mohamad discussed security cooperation during talks in Thailand on October 24, especially in dealing with the insurgency in the south of Thailand that has killed more than 7,000 in the last two decades.
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has affirmed a goal of improving the role of Thailand in digital development in ASEAN at the opening ceremony of the Big Bang 2018 recently held in Bangkok.
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha on May 1 reassured that the general election will be definitely held in early 2019. The statement was made amid the anti-junta activists’ warning to stage a large-scale demonstration in May.
The Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) Business Summit, which opened in Hanoi on March 30 on the sidelines of the sixth GMS Summit as an initiative of Vietnam, has created an opportunity for governments to hold dialogue with enterprises and development partners, and encourage their stronger engagement in GMS activities.
Vietnam and Thailand should seek measures to raise two-way trade to 15 billion USD before 2020, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told his Thai counterpart Prayut Chan-ocha in Hanoi on March 30.
Leader of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee, also known as the Yellow-shirt, plans to found a political party to back Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha in maintaining his post after the next general election.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had bilateral meetings with leaders of Singapore, Thailand and Myanmar on the sidelines of the ASEAN – India Commemorative Summit in New Delhi, India, on January 25.
Thailand and China on December 21 kicked off the construction of a high-speed railway project’s first route from Bangkok to Thailand’s northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima.
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has instructed state management agencies to increase the monitoring of information on social networks and media, especially online newspapers.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has submitted a list of his new cabinet’s members to King Rama X in preparation for a reshuffle that is expected to focus on improving economic performance.
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha and Chinese President Xi Jinping have discussed measures to tighten bilateral ties, especially in boosting regional connectivity through roads and along the Mekong River.
The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group and the Siam Cement Group (SCG) of Thailand have just signed an agreement on accelerating the progress of a petrochemical project in southern Vietnam.
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has asked the society not to overreact to the government’s new Royal Decree on Migrant Worker Management as its harsher punishments have been delayed from effect by six months.
The Thailand-China railway project will give priority to hiring Thai workers as up to 75 percent of its budget or about 136 billion THB will be used for the work.
Thailand’s authorities announced on June 8 that six auxiliary crossings on its border with Malaysia have been closed to prevent militants of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) from entering the country.
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