Bangkok: The Thai government projects that some 200,000 jobs worth 1.2 trillion THB (35.03 trillion USD) will be created during the development process of the Business Centre and Liveable Smart City within the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).
Government spokesperson Chai Wacharonke made the claim on January 2 after the policy committee for the EEC approved the EEC Business Centre and Livable Smart City project in Chonburi’s Bang Lamung district.
Supporters said this special economic promotion zone will be developed as a centre of business and finance by 2027, and continue to become one of the world’s 10 liveable smart cities by 2037.
The EEC is designed to lure investment in target industries, including clean energy, digital solutions, 5G, logistics, tourism, financial services and comprehensive health care. Particularly, the business centre and smart city will support more than 350,000 people and attract 150-300 target startups.
The development is in line with the concept of creating a business ecosystem
that combines nature, people, innovation and technology, Chai said, adding it is expected to boost Thailand’s gross domestic product to hit 2 trillion THB within a decade.
He stressed that Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin supports the development to create a model of the modern economic city.
He also expressed his belief that the development will be an important part of the country’s attraction of foreign investors to shift their production bases to Thailand, and improve the Thai people’s quality of life./.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
CAGAYAN: The city government this year will broaden its services to the “sitios” within the barangays here, an official said Thursday.
In a statement, Mayor Rolando Uy said that after conducting free social services in the majority of the city’s 80 barangays in the past year, he looks forward to revamping the city government’s outreach program for the city’s inner sitios or sub-villages.
“I will meet with our City Hall department managers to discuss our (outreach) program during our upcoming management committee meeting to find ways on how to reach out and serve the innermost sitios of our barangays,” he said.
Uy said they would conduct repeated visits to sitios that they believe need basic government services the most, especially those with limited access to social services.
Aside from providing free medical and dental services, the outreach program will also distribute PhilHealth cards, and process licenses, documentary requirements, and even lot titles, he said.
Uy will officiate the weekly “Kasalan N
g Bayan” or mass wedding during the upcoming sitio visits, having administered civil weddings to 3,000 couples over the past year.
He said each couple would also receive a roasted pig, a bottle of wine, and wedding gifts from the city government as those wedded by him last year
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