People shopoing at Bangkok’s Chinatown — Reuters
BANGKOK: Thailand's economy grew faster than expected in the second quarter on robust export growth ahead of U.S. tariffs taking full effect, the state planning agency said on Monday as it slightly strengthened its full-year outlook.
Southeast Asia's second-largest economy grew 2.8% in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, the National Economic and Social Development Council said in a statement. That was above a forecast of 2.5% growth in a Reuters poll, but below the first quarter's annual rate of 3.2%.
