BIG WORRY: Electronics is Thailand's largest export sector, making up about 15% of the total, and is crucial for a country where goods sold overseas are equal to over 60% of its economic output.
BANGKOK: Next month the last batch of televisions will roll off the production line at LG Electronics' plant in Thailand's Rayong province, just east of Bangkok.
The company said that it's moving production 1,500 kilometres northeast to the Vietnamese coastal city of Hai Phong, where labour costs are cheaper and China-based suppliers that much closer.
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