Tackling vague laws, for public safety bangkokpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bangkokpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The government's planning unit, the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), reported on May 23 Thailand's unemployment rate dropped in the first quarter to its lowest level since the start of the pandemic, boosted by higher employment in both the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, as the economy gradually recovers.
Rethinking America s Role in Asia - The Asia Foundation asiafoundation.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from asiafoundation.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Millions of Thais fall on hard times
Stagnating economy worsens lot of the poor as obscene inequality gap widens further
Trending
A homeless man sleeps under a bridge in Bangkok. Signs of extreme poverty are commonplace in the capital and provincial towns. (Photo: UCA News)
Siriwan Wongprasong, a Thai woman in her late 50s, has never had it particularly easy, but times are especially hard these days, she says.
Reserved and soft-spoken, Siriwan lives in an inner-city shanty town in an otherwise affluent part of Bangkok. Her husband is ailing, so she is the family’s only breadwinner and makes her living by mending clothes on a portable sewing machine she sets up daily on a sidewalk beside a five-star hotel.