Thailand Tobacco Monopoly
Recent “sin tax” backfires on Thailand’s tobacco monopoly
A new excise tax (dubbed “sin tax”) on cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, sugary drinks, coffee drinks and tea drinks, imposed in September this year in...
Thailand to provide low-cost cigarettes to the poor
Thailand isn't normally known to be a social welfare paradise, but at least smoking should now become more affordable for the less fortunate. The...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...