Thailand's employment growth slows despite tourism recovery in Q2

BANGKOK (Xinhua): Thailand's employment growth slowed in the second quarter of this year as droughts affected farming despite improvements in the vital tourism sector with an inflow of foreign visitors, official data showed on Monday.

The South-East Asian country's labor force amounted to 39.7 million individuals in the April-June period, representing a 1.7-percent year-on-year increase, a slowdown from an expansion of 2.4 percent in the previous three months, according to the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC).