
Patpicha Tanakasempipat
Thailand Politics and Business Reporter at Bloomberg News
Reporting on Thailand for Bloomberg @business. Formerly @Reuters. @FCCThai board. 📝: politics, business, breaking news. Views mine. 📧: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
bloomberg.com | Suttinee Yuvejwattana |Patpicha Tanakasempipat
Paopoom Rojanasakul(Bloomberg) -- Thailand is planning to lower taxes and cut red tape to help it become a financial hub for investors doing business regionally, especially in frontier markets like Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Draft legislation will be submitted to parliament early next month and likely passed later this year, paving the way for the country to operate as a financial center in 2026, Deputy Finance Minister Paopoom Rojanasakul said in an interview in Bangkok late Monday.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Suttinee Yuvejwattana |Patpicha Tanakasempipat
Thailand is planning to lower taxes and cut red tape to help it become a financial hub for investors doing business regionally, especially in frontier markets like Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Draft legislation will be submitted to parliament early next month and likely passed later this year, paving the way for the country to operate as a financial center in 2026, Deputy Finance Minister Paopoom Rojanasakul said in an interview in Bangkok late Monday. “Money is out there.
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3 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Patpicha Tanakasempipat
(Bloomberg) -- Thailand’s armed forces are ready to defend the border in the face of a deadly clash with Cambodia that erupted last week, a top official said, adding that the country wants to maintain peace with its neighbor. “At this stage, neither side wants war,” Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, who also serves as defense minister, said after a meeting of the National Security Council on Friday.
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3 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Patpicha Tanakasempipat
Thailand plans to record and monitor financial transactions of visitors to casinos to deter money laundering. (Bloomberg) -- Thailand plans to record and monitor financial transactions of visitors to casinos to deter money laundering, officials said as the government sought to win over opponents of a bill to legalize gambling venues as part of new integrated resorts.
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1 month ago |
bloomberg.com | Patpicha Tanakasempipat
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, right, with Anutin Charnvirakul in Bangkok in August 2024. (Bloomberg) -- Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s less than one-year-old government faces its biggest test yet, with feuding between the two biggest coalition parties threatening the national budget. The fate of the $113 billion spending plan lies in the hands of the conservative Bhumjaithai party, the second-largest group in an alliance that commands a nearly two-thirds majority in the legislature.
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Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s less than one-year-old government faces its biggest test yet, with feuding between the two biggest coalition parties threatening the national budget. “It’s a game of chicken,” @naponjatu describes it perfectly: https://t.co/zuoXNU8m0W

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.7 has hit Myanmar, shaking parts of Thailand and Vietnam https://t.co/WEdCa20CTd via @business

RT @BloombergAsia: Thailand’s main opposition party accused Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra of allowing her father Thaksin Shinawatra…