Rice subsidy scheme
Former Thai PM Yingluck slapped with $1-billion fine
Thailand's former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been presented a whopping 35.7-billion baht (around $1 billion) bill by the ruling military government as reparation...
Thai junta promises to clear rice farmers’ outstanding bills
The army-led National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) in Thailand has instructed the Finance Ministry and Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives to...
Drop rice subsidy scheme, IMF tells Thailand
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on Thailand to scrap its pricy scheme to support rice farmers and scale back some other fiscal stimulus...
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Cambodia to include financial literacy in school curricula
Cambodia in a first for Southeast Asia’s developing countries will introduce a pilot scheme to add financial literacy into school curricula, the Phnom Penh...
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Philippines’ super-rich lose $7 billion
The combined wealth of the super-wealthy in the Philippines dropped to $72 billion this year from $79 billion in mid-2021 even as the country...