Government Relations
Each Province to Arrange a Model Flea Market to Boost Food Safety Standards
The Ministry of Public Health is accelerating the setting up of at least a model flea market in each province in order to promote food safety standards. Deputy Public Health Minister Surawit Khonsomboon said that the project would be completed by the end of 2012, in response to the Government’s policy to develop Thailand as the “Kitchen of the World.”
Meeting to plot eurozone crisis reaction
The government has called a meeting of nine ministries related to the economy today to discuss measures to deal with the looming impact of the eurozone debt crisis on the Thai economy.
Big cars may not get carbon tax break
Small cars emitting low levels of carbon dioxide may be granted excise tax reductions, but large cars with similarly low levels of gas output may not receive same benefit.
BoT: Europe crisis won’t hurt economy
The continuing financial crisis in Europe is causing uncertainty but it will not have much impact on the Thai economy, a central bank official said Tuesday.
Kittiratt says foreign help is essential
Politicians should be kept out of the decision-making process for long-term flood-prevention projects, says Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong. Both domestic and foreign experts must be consulted to develop solid academic and technological solutions, he said.European countries, China, Korea and Japan have proposed long-term projects, while the Asian Development Bank yesterday made recommendations and funding proposals for a rehabilitation plan.
Board urges budget restraint
The Pheu Thai government has been warned that it should not push the limit of the budget deficit beyond 50% of gross domestic product (GDP) although by law it is permitted to go as far as 60% of the GDP.
Loosen Foreign Business Act, TDRI tells new Govt
The Thailand Research Development Institute has urged the new government to amend the Foreign Business Act so that it protects only those service sectors that involve small operators.
Thai polling agency OKs European Union election observers
BANGKOK, June 13 – Thailand’s Election Commission (EC) has no objection to the European Union (EU) sending observers to monitor Thailand’s upcoming general election, Chairman Apichart Sukhagganond said on Monday.
ASEAN-EU strive to settle trade barriers
JAKARTA, May 5 (Xinhua) — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and European Union (EU) would cooperate to address trade barriers that have hampered trade of the two sides, Indonesia’s deputy trade minister said here on Thursday.
RI to foster ASEAN-EU economic cooperation
Jakarta, May 6 (ANTARA) – Indonesia, current chair of ASEAN, is leading an effort to foster economic and trade cooperation between ASEAN and the European Union, two regions if combined together would form a huge market of one billion population and a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of US$16.7 trillion.
EU gives fruit exporters ultimatum
Thailand has one year to meet standards Thailand has until next January to prove that all shipments of 16 suspect vegetable types to the EU meet quality standard requirements, says the Thailand Trade Representative Office (TTR).
EU prefers Asean-wide FTA
Thailand remains keen to have a bilateral free trade agreement with the European Union (EU) while the latter prefers to seal a region-wide pact with all Asean members, say the delegations of both sides.