THAILAND’S ageing population will become a serious problem for the Kingdom if its people do not start making long-term investments to prepare for their retirement, warns Rapee Sucharitakul, secretary-general of the Securities and Exchange Commission |(SEC).

TRADE conflicts initiated by the United States could last for up to four years, says a research house, which has penciled in a potential hit on Thai exports of as much as US$4.5 billion for next year.