Thailand's new PM meets Tesla chief Musk in New York

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Thursday that he met with Tesla chief Elon Musk in New York, where the two held discussions on the electric vehicle industry.

Thailand is Asia's fourth-largest automobile assembly hub and a growing regional base for EV manufacturing.

(Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng and Devjyot Ghoshal. Editing by Jane Merriman)