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Thailand will delay its direct cash handout scheme and use its remaining budget of 157 billion baht to invest in water management, transport, logistics and soft loans for small businesses instead, Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira said on Monday.

Covid-19 cases reported in Thailand spiked to 33,030 last week, with at least 6,000 cases in Bangkok, according to the Department of Disease Control.

Rescuers were digging frantically to save a worker who fell into a 19-metre hole at the Orange Line railway construction site near soi Lan Luang 6 in Bangkok on Monday.

Thailand significantly lowered its forecast for economic growth this year as the global trade war undercuts private investment and exports, adding to already-weak consumption at home.

A month of test runs will begin on the new monorail route linking the Pink Line and Muang Thong Thani on Tuesday, and Bangkok commuters can ride for free 

Parents, teachers and even a janitor have berated their school director for forcing young students to hoist the national flag outside during a  dangerous storm, forcing the principal to offer an apology.

Gulf Development Plc, controlled by Thailand’s richest man Sarath Ratanavadi, has raised its stake in Kasikornbank Plc to about $610 million, making it the commercial lender’s third-largest shareholder.

A traveller from Thailand has been given a two-year jail sentence in Hong Kong for smuggling 187 parrot eggs valued at an estimated HK$1.4 million (6 million baht), with an expert saying the seizure is part of a global uptick of such cases involving endangered species.

A Senate committee plans to propose guidelines in its draft of the Platform Economy Act to address the dominance of foreign players in Thai e-commerce.

The Revenue Department is preparing to draft legislation to amend the collection of tax on foreign income remitted to Thailand.