The Board of Investment (BoI) declared the golden period for investors by granting its maximum incentives to six categories of investment projects submitted by the end of next year.
Automobile production could fall 18 per cent to 1.2 million units next year due to the global financial crisis that is severely denting domestic and overseas demand, an auto executive said yesterday.
The House of Representatives' subcommittee monitoring investment by state agencies disagrees with TOT's plan to spend Bt29 billion on its third-generation (3G) mobile broadband-network roll-out.
The Thailand Productivity Institute has called on the government to come up with continuity in its policies and reduce the number of overlapping regulations in order to improve national productivity.
The Commerce Ministry will begin its auction of 3.1 million tonnes of rice today, drawing on its huge stockpile before the new crop which will be marketed under the government's rice-pledging programme.
Transport Minister Santi Prompat yesterday said the ministry might order state agencies to reduce the budget of mega-projects in view of the continued fall in oil prices.
Bangkok Hospital Eastern Group is trying to smooth its future income to cope with the economic slowdown by slashing service costs and bringing in more foreign patients.