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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday opened a service centre at the Commerce Ministry in Nonthaburi that will provide business advice as it aims to increase the ease of doing business while receiving complaints related to commercial issues.
Chutima Boonyapraphasara, permanent secretary of the ministry, said the centre would be a single point to serve businesspeople and others through an electronic system.
The centre will serve as an operations centre for business registration and a consultancy.
It will represent the tasks of all agencies under the ministry – the departments of Internal Trade, Foreign Trade, International Trade Promotion, Trade Negotiations, Business Development and Intellectual Property Rights, as well as the Public Warehouse Organisation. The hotline number for the centre is 1203.

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