Govt urged to reveal details of BAAC borrowing for digital wallet scheme
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE GOVERNMENT WAS TODAY (Apr. 12) pressed to tell how long a sum of 172.3 billion baht in planned borrowing from the Bank for Agriculture & Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) to finance in part their 10,000-baht digital wallet project could be completely repaid. Move Forward MP Sirikanya Tansakun said the Pheu […]
Read MoreAll digital wallet funding to come from govt sources
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ALL FUNDING FOR the Pheu Thai-initiated, digital wallet handout campaign will directly come from government financial sources in lieu of the earlier-planned borrowing of loans from outside. An ad hoc government committee for the 10,000-baht digital wallet project, chaired by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin who concurrently performs as finance minister, […]
Read MoreDigital wallet campaign to be carried out in third, fourth quarters
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI-INITIATED, 10,000-baht digital wallet campaign will be implemented in the third and fourth quarters of this year, confirmed Deputy Finance Minister Julapun Amornvivat today (Mar. 25). All Thai nationals aged 16 years and over as well as restaurant owners, store owners and vendors may register themselves for access […]
Read MorePM would dissolve House rather than resign over possible digital wallet fiasco
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin would ultimately choose to dissolve the House of Representatives and call a general election rather than resign if the Pheu Thai digital wallet campaign was eventually rejected at parliament, according to a partisan source. Srettha has earlier confided to some of his personal associates that he […]
Read MorePita suggests Plan B be applied in lieu of digital wallet project
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER MOVE FORWARD leader Pita Limjaroenrat today (Feb.10) suggested the Pheu Thai-led government prepare and apply Plan B in place of the much-heralded, highly contentious digital wallet project. Pita advised the government to put Plan B to work if the populist handout campaign, the implementation of which has already been […]
Read MorePM annoyed 10,000 baht digital wallet scheme stuck with graft-busters
PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin said this morning (Feb. 3) at Don Mueang Airport before flying to Sri Lanka for an official visit that although the Thai people cannot wait any longer for the 10,000 baht digital wallet project to start, his government is still waiting for a recommendation from the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), […]
Read MoreKorat people tell PM to not give them false hope on cash handout
By Thai Newsroom Reporters and Amarin TV AFTER Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin reconfirmed today (Jan.9) that the Pheu Thai-led government’s 10,000-baht digital wallet project will be implemented from May as planned, people in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) said they were waiting for the cash handout and hope the government is not giving them false hope. […]
Read MoreDigital wallet scheme to be rolled out by May: PM
By Reuters and published by CNA THAILAND’S plan to kick-start its economy via a 500-billion-baht ($14.3-billion) ‘digital wallet’ handout programme will proceed by May, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin told reporters today (Jan. 9). His comments come after the Office of the Council of State, an independent panel that provides legal advice to governments, found […]
Read MorePheu Thai-led govt alleged of pushing mutually contradictory populist campaigns
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PHEU THAI-LED GOVERNMENT is putting forward mutually contradictory populist campaigns which will immensely increase public debt and compromise their financial and treasury disciplines, said an opposition MP today (Nov.30). Move Forward MP Nattapong Ruangpanyawudhi said the Pheu Thai-led coalition government plans to borrow a sum of 500 billion baht […]
Read MoreLively digital Loy Krathong festival at Ong Ang canal
FOR THE first time ever a digital Loy Krathong event took place at Bangkok’s Ong Ang canal last night (Nov. 27) in an effort to preserve waterways and solve the problem of residual garbage and in doing so save our planet by reducing global warming, Thai Rath and TV Channel 7 said. Thai Rath […]
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