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BOT announces relief measures for indebted households

August 03, 2024

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) announced on Friday a series of measures aimed at providing relief to indebted households, particularly those facing financial hardship.

Thai berry pickers in Europe — a case of the poor getting poorer

February 14, 2024

It’s been 18 years since the first batch of Thai workers travelled to Finland and Sweden to pick berries. Since then more than 110,000 Thai workers have travelled across continents for the lure of 130,000 - 150,000 baht for their two months of hard labour.

Indebted sticky rice vendor found hanging after customer alerts family

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2018

A woman reportedly with chronic ailments and a heavy debt to a loan shark was found hanging behind her home early on Tuesday, with her sticky-rice cart nearby.

Indebted friend’s suicide leads to second teacher’s death

MONDAY, JANUARY 08, 2018

A retired schoolteacher in Phichit under duress at having to repay the debt of a teacher friend who’d committed suicide apparently took his own life in turn early on Monday.

Ageing Thailand takes toll on indebted households

THURSDAY, MAY 05, 2016

Rising cost of care for elderly relatives is stretching a shrinking working-age population

PM orders assistance to indebted farmers

SATURDAY, AUGUST 01, 2015

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed the Interior, Justice and Finance ministries as well as the Government Savings Bank and the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives to speedily aid more than 1.6 million debt-burdened farm