The Thai government has announced a slew of relief measures to rehabilitate the domestic economy by focusing on providing training program to improve workers' skills and rolling out aid measures to help new graduates. - AFP
BANGKOK (Xinhua):- Thailand's economic planning agency said on Thursday (May 28) that about 14.4 million workers may face unemployment in the second and third quarters, largely due to impact of Covid-19 and the ongoing severe drought.
Out of the 14.4 million workers, some 8.4 million are estimated to be at risk of job loss, 2.5 million of whom are in the tourism sector, 1.5 million in the industrial sector and 4.4 million in other parts of the service sector, the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) said in a statement.
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