Thailand to regulate digital platform service businesses


FILE PHOTO FILE PHOTO People visit shopping center to celebrate New Year Eve during the coronavirus disease COVID-19 outbreak in Bangkok Thailand December 31 2020. REUTERSSoe Zeya TunFile PhotoFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: People visit shopping center to celebrate New Year Eve during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand December 31, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo/File Photo

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet on Monday approved a draft decree to regulate digital platform service businesses to maintain financial and commercial stability and to prevent damage to the public, a government spokesman said.

Such businesses, both in and outside of Thailand, will need to notify the government before operating, spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said in a statement.

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