What Thailand’s GDP Surge Means for Your Loans and Pay
Thailand’s 2.5% GDP surge could raise borrowing costs and lift select wages. Learn what it means for your loans, salary and tourism job prospects in 2025.
Tracking economy for Thailand — coverage from the newsroom in Bangkok.
Thailand’s 2.5% GDP surge could raise borrowing costs and lift select wages. Learn what it means for your loans, salary and tourism job prospects in 2025.
Thai state hospitals face an ฿11B funding gap, putting Thailand’s universal healthcare at risk. Explore proposed co-pays, private-insurance plans and new cash-flow fixes.
Cambodia’s seizure of a Thai trawler near the Cambodia–Thai border threatens seafood exports and crews. Learn the new paperwork rules Thai skippers must follow.
Ending the 2001 MoU 44 Thailand-Cambodia gas pact forces fresh talks, stalls offshore gas drilling and could drive Thai power bills even higher for years.
Cambodian navy seizes Thai trawler near Koh Kong; crew status unknown, 3 t of squid burned. Tighter permits and rising insurance loom for Trat-based boats.
Thailand pauses Cambodian work-permit renewals for security checks, squeezing farms and construction with labour shortages. Expect higher costs; see updates.
Thai border traders and energy investors could face stricter checks and slow gas deals as Cambodia revives 1907 maps and seeks to rewrite MOU 44. Stay updated.
Thailand scraps MOU 44 and builds a 57-km smart fence on the Cambodia border—shorter customs hours, longer queues, higher trucking fees and tighter migrant-worker checks ahead.
Thailand’s coalition deadlock freezes farm subsidies and delays the 2026 budget, squeezing farmers, rattling markets and lifting grocery costs—find out what’s next.