Life goes on at Khlong Toei market

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From Coconuts Bangkok

Gone is its nauseating traffic, and empty are its malls. Rows of fashionable bars lie shuttered, there’s a hush over normally chaotic Chinatown, and the monitor lizards and ravens have Lumphini Park all to themselves.

Digital billboards carry on like nothing is amiss in contrast to the ghostly CentralWorld mall behind them. Along mall row, in front of Siam Paragon, taxis queue for no one and nearly empty buses parade by on schedule.

But one place that seems to defy all that, or any sense of crisis, is the capital’s Khlong Toei Market.

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From The Nation and Bangkok Post

Proposed plan to revive THAI approved by state enterprise body

Thai Airways International (THAI) will borrow money to survive the coronavirus crisis, and will remain a state enterprise, the Finance Ministry announced on Wednesday.

The State Enterprise Policy Committee (SEPC) has resolved to revive the operations of Thai Airways International (THAI) in line with the proposals put forward by the Transport and Finance ministries, said Prapas Kong-led, director of the State Enterprise Policy Office.

“The newly appointed committee held its first meeting today [April 29] chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha,” he said. “The committee is responsible for ensuring transparency and good governance among state enterprises.”

At its meeting, the panel approved two points on the agenda, namely:

1. Appointing two sub-committees that are responsible for SEPC’s urgent missions:

1.1 State Enterprise Development Planning Subcommittee, chaired by former PTT CEO Thewin Wongwanich;

1.2 State Enterprise Evaluation Subcommittee, chaired by the Finance Ministry’s permanent secretary.

An informed source said the meeting also agreed that professionals should be brought in to manage the struggling airline.