Новости за 21.05.2020

A video showing the burials at sea of an Indonesian crewman working on a Chinese fishing vessel, as reported early this month by the Indonesia media, once again shed a light on the poor working conditions of Indonesian seaborne migrant workers and poor protection from states.

Aleena Pahod, a young Thai student on a full scholarship in Kuala Lumpur, considers herself lucky for being able to stay put in the capital under strict lockdown measures, without the need to immediately return home to Phangnga.

On Monday, a local civic group in Songkhla by the name of "Beach for Life" launched an online campaign at Change.org to gather signatures for its drive to stop the construction of a 710-metre seawall.

A group of mall operators has called on the government to help design standardised guidelines for restaurant operators and to extend service times to recoup sales opportunities.

The Bank of Thailand cut the policy rate yesterday by 0.25 percentage points to a fresh record low of 0.5%, saying it is ready to use additional policy tools to soften the economic blow while downside risks to the country's economy this year remain high.

Despite massive fiscal stimulus packages and monetary easing, the economy could continue falling sharply this quarter, with GDP contraction possibly below the 12.5% seen in the second quarter of 1998, says CIMB Thai Bank (CIMBT).

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is encouraging Thai businesses to use its platform to boost their sales in overseas markets as online sales have jumped during the pandemic.

The pandemic is likely to cause the residential market nationwide to fall by 15% this year, in line with a forecast 5.5% contraction of GDP growth and a sharp drop in housing absorption rate, according to the Real Estate Information Center (REIC).

The Finance Ministry will sell 3.17% of its stake in the financially-troubled Thai Airways International (THAI) to the state-run Vayupak 1 Fund, with the aim of stripping the airline of its state enterprise status.

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25 children (mean age = 4.1±1.0 y) completed a 20-minute active play session while wearing a portable indirect calorimeter and ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometers on their right hip and non-dominant wrist. Читать дальше...

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