
News by Country: Thailand
8 January 2021
· Govt aid for Thai
Airways International's layoffs?
(Bangkok
Post, 18 September 2020)
· Thailand's closed
borders spread misery among neighbours (UCA News, 17 September 2020)
· Govt urged to help
laid-off Wingspan workers
(Bangkok
Post, 17 September 2020)
· Understanding wages
and allowances when calculating severance and other payments (Bangkok Post, 16 September
2020)
· Post Covid-19: Thailand proposes
setting up Asean SMEs Recovery Facility (The Edge Markets, 10 September 2020)
· Coronavirus: Thailand tourism
body pushes for open borders with some nations (Straits Times, 10 September 2020)
· Thai airport staff sue over pay
dispute as virus hammers travel sector
(Reuters, 9 September 2020)
· Thailand puts border areas with
Cambodia and Myanmar on high alert after Covid cases surge in Myanmar, 3
Cambodians arrested for illegal entry
(Khmer Times, 8 September 2020)
· Special visa eyed to serve
long-staying travellers (Bangkok Post, 4 September 2020)
· Thailand reports first domestic
COVID-19 case in 100 days (CNA, 3
September 2020)
· Thailand Steps Up Moei River
Patrols Against Illegal Migrants From Myanmar (The Irrawaddy, 31 August 2020)
· Ministry of Public Health
requests to delay importing migrant workers from areas with Covid-19 infections (Pattaya News, 30 August 2020)
· Tighter Covid-19 precautions for
provinces bordering Myanmar (Bangkok
Post, 28 August 2020)
· Travel bug: Why tourism in Asia
will never be the same (Nikkei
Asian Review, 26 August 2020)
· Exports drop, but show signs of
recovery (Bangkok
Post, 24 August 2020)
· Covid-19 crisis hits hard for the
elderly
(Bangkok Post, 23
August 2020)
· Thai Youth Want Power Returned To
The People (The ASEAN Post, 22 August 2020)
· Asia-Pacific: The coronavirus increases
unemployment among young people
(Asia News, 19 August 2020)
· Tourism, trade badly hit; biggest
drop in GDP since 1998 crisis (Straits
Times, 18 August 2020)
· Up to 1.76m face possible job
loss (Bangkok Post, 18
August 2020)
· Thailand ranked world's safest
tourist destination amid COVID-19
(The Jakarta Post, 17 August 2020)
· 94 Thai workers in Uzbekistan
happy to return home thanks to government assistance (Bangkok
Post, 14 August 2020)
· Special flight for 94 stranded
workers (Bangkok Post, 11 August 2020)
· Repatriation of Thai citizens
from Bahrain suspended as embassy worker tests positive for virus (The Thaiger, 10 August 2020)
· Thailand ready to open border for
Cambodian migrant workers
(Khmer Times, 6 August
2020)
· Sex workers from Singapore to
Bangkok feel COVID chill (Nikkei
Asian Review, 5 August 2020)
· Exporters cautioned as headwinds
mount (Bangkok
Post, 3 August 2020)
· Thai lingerie maker lays off 753
workers over coronavirus downturn
(Reuters, 31 July 2020)
· Hourly wage push poses 'abuse'
risk (Bangkok Post, 28 July
2020)
· Thai migrant workers get go-ahead
to return to farms in Israel (Bangkok Post, 28 July 2020)
· Migrants struggle to return
despite sealed borders (Bangkok Post, 26 July 2020)
·
Thailand
let labourers ease shortage (Myanmar Times, 23 July 2020)
·
Migrant
workers in Thailand at risk of abuse amid economic slowdown (ASEAN Today, 22 July
2020)
· CCSA considers sixth
phase of COVID easing to allow foreigners and migrant workers (The Phuket News, 20 July 2020)
· Thailand's rulers
must act fast to reverse COVID-19 economic damage (Nikkei Asian Review, 20 July
2020)
· COVID-19, electric
vehicles to reshape Thailand’s auto industry (CNA, 17 July 2020)
· Asia's garment
workers say coronavirus used as cover to smash unions (Business Times, 16 July 2020)
· Fujitsu in first big
WFH move
(Bangkok Post, 15 July 2020)
· Migrants seeking work
held in Chachoengsao for illegal entry (Bangkok
Post, 12 July 2020)
· Thailand Issues Stimulus Packages
to Boost Domestic Tourism (ASEAN
Briefing, 9 July 2020)
· Thailand needs to do more to
support older people from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (Relief Web, 8 July 2020)
· Developing World
Loses Billions in Money From Migrant Workers (Bangkok Post, 7 July 2020)