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Supawan Tanomkieatipume, vice president of the Thai Hotels Association was selected as new president of THA yesterday. She has been serving the association for four year as vice president, overseeing marketing.

She is owner of The Twin Towers Bangkok Hotel, a long established four-star property.

Supawan said she would continue to develop the hotel industry and improve service standards and quality as well as initiating more marketing activities in order to boost the tourism industry. 

 

DRAFT LAWS TO CABINET 

Information and Communications Technology Minister Uttama Savanayana said that the digital economy draft law, NBTC draft law, and e-commerce draft law will be forwarded to cabinet next week.

 

BOOST FOR START-UPS

The National Start-up Businesses Committee’s recent first meeting approved the plan to promote and support local start-up businesses to play a vital role in helping drive the economy under the Asean Economic Community environment.

The Finance ministry will propose those plans to the cabinet for consideration.

 

STAR INDUSTRIES

The construction and basic utilities industries are the rising stars in Myanmar this year followed by the tourism and telecommunication sectors in second and third place respectively.

The 2016 survey on three rising star industries in each of the CLMV (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam) countries was carried out by the communications group specialising in Indochina, Havas Riverorchid Group. The No 1 rising businesses in Laos is product distribution, followed by lifestyle products for teens, and tourists.

In Cambodia, the top rising star this year is the construction and basic utilities industry, followed by consumer products and lifestyle products for teens.

In Vietnam, the best performer is lifestyle products for city dwellers, followed by the healthcare and education sectors.