"Subsidies"

The new MG ZS EV and MG EP have won positive feedback after their price was adjusted as part of the government’s EV incentive campaign, the manufacturer and distributor of MG cars in Thailand said on Thursday.

The government recently launched the fourth phase of the “Rao Tiew Duay Kan” (We Travel Together) and “Tour Tiew Thai” co-payment schemes to encourage domestic travel and boost revenue for tourism operators.

The National Rice Policy Committee has earmarked about Bt100 billion to provide subsidies for rice farmers for the 2020-2021 crop year.

The Cabinet on Tuesday made big cuts to the proposed subsidies of the money-losing State Railway of Thailand and the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

MORE and more farmers are coming forward to register for government subsidies as well as an occupation-shifting allowance this year, Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE) secretary-general Jariya Sutthichaiya said yesterday.

A database has been made for administrative bodies' to check the information of low-income families entitled to child-support subsidies for children up to the age of six at Bt600 a month.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha suggested rice farmers on Friday curb their output in order to prevent oversupply and falling prices.

The draft law that seeks to increase monthly subsidies for low-income, elderly citizens undergoes its first reading by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) Wednesday.

Re: “Our seniors need more help, not less”, Editorial, May 18.

NAIROBI - World Trade Organisation member countries agreed to abolish agricultural export subsidies after five days of talks in Nairobi, but failed to make progress on the long-stalled Doha Round of negotiations aimed at lowering global trade barriers.