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THE TRADE Policy and Strategy Office (TPSO) is rushing to draw up plans to stimulate exports and complete negotiations on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) within this year amid fears Thai exports saw a decline in the first quarter of this year due to the prolonged US-China trade war.

The Energy Ministry aims to make Thailand a regional trading hub for liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas through the “Optimising LNG AND LPG Trade in Asia 2019” Forum, focusing on business linkages between Thai and international entrepreneurs.

THOUGH Myanmar’s stock market is yet to be very active due to a lag in investor interest, another move is now under way to set up a derivatives market in the nation, according to a workshop held at the Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) yesterday.

Visitors from 21 countries to get visa-on-arrival fee waiver for 60 days.

The Fishery Department has proposed that Siamese fighting fish be declared the national fish, Agriculture Minister Krissada Boonraj said on Tuesday.

HOT DEBATES on social media have prompted Buddhism’s highest body – as well as related authorities – to seek middle-ground solutions, after complaints were filed by two residents of a condominium built less than a decade ago against a 300-year-old Bangkok temple’s pre-dawn practice of ringing the bell.

EFFORTS to restore coral at Maya Bay have been hampered by a strong monsoon and rough sea conditions, resulting in the survival of only 10 per cent of replanted coral.

IN AN effort to improve transparency and good governance in extractive industries such as mining, gems and jade, oil and gas, Myanmar on Thursday launched two reports on its extractive industries.

THE GOVERNMENT seems likely to try to settle the dispute over court officials’ residences at the foot of Chiang Mai’s Doi Suthep Mountain without the use of the special powers under Article 44 and without demolishing the structures.

THREE DRUG suspects – two from Hong Kong – have been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle heroin out of Thailand via a cargo container.

CARABAO Group is bent on dislodging Red Bull from atop Britain’s 1.2-billion pound  energy drinks market within 10 years.

A social security system for forest rangers has been included as part of the forest reform plan under the natural resources and environment reform plan developed by the natural resources and environment reform committee, one of the 13 committees appointed under the national reform law.