Chiang Mai examines water quality in city’s moat

Chiang Mai Municipality has inspected water quality in the city’s moat ahead of the upcoming Songkran Festival. Mayor Tassanai Booranupakorn first visited the city’s moat at a point opposite Pa Pao temple, Muang district of Chiang Mai, to initiate an inspection of present water quality. Elsewhere, two trucks sprayed chlorine...

IMF predicts a bleak outlook for the Thai economy

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecasted that the Thai economy this year would grow by only 2.5 percent, the lowest in the ASEAN region. According to the IMF, the economies of emerging markets would expand only by 4.9 percent, which is 0.2 percent lower than their earlier projection in...