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Price Monitoring to Cope with Impacts of the Nationwide 300-Baht Minimum Wage Hike
The Ministry of Commerce is closely monitoring prices of consumer goods to ensure that consumers will not face higher prices related to the 300-baht minimum wage hike nationwide.
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New Investment Promotion Strategy to Focus on Knowledge-based Industries
Thailand is working out a new investment promotion strategy, which will focus on industrial restructuring toward knowledge-based, or high-technology, industries.
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Government Emphasizes Investment in Human Resources
The Government is emphasizing efforts to bring about a balance of human resource development in order to strengthen the country and move it forward.
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Upcoming Visit of the Japanese Prime Minister to Thailand
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife will pay an official visit to Thailand on 17-18 January 2013, as guests of the Thai government.
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Prime Minister Thanks Cambodia for Granting Amnesty and Reducing Jail Terms for Two Thai Activists
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has expressed her thanks to the Cambodian government for its cooperation in the case of two Thai activists jailed in Cambodia.
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Bangkok Residents to Go to the Polls for Gubernatorial Election
Bangkok residents will go to the polls soon for a new gubernatorial election, after M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra’s resignation from the Bangkok Governor post.
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Factors to Help Drive Economic Growth and Policy on the Adjustment of Economic Balance
Secretary-General of the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board Arkhom Termpittayapaisith has cited three factors that will help drive the further growth of the Thai economy in 2013.
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Government Reiterates Its Strong Intention to Protect Thailand’s Sovereignty on the Phra Viharn Temple Issue
The Government has reiterated its strong intention to protect Thailand’s sovereignty in the case concerning the Thai-Cambodian border dispute on the issue of the Temple of Phra Viharn.
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Implementation of the 300-baht Daily Minimum Wage Nationwide
The Government believed that the implementation of the 300-baht daily minimum wage nationwide would increase labor quality and improve the living conditions of workers.
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Thailand Attaches Importance to the Promotion and Protection of Children’s Rights
Thailand is preparing to set up a special mechanism to implement various activities and projects in accordance with the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure.
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