Thailand's eastern economic corridor to aid businesses, labour hit by Covid-19

Customers eat lunch behind plastic sheets to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, May 21, 2020. - AP

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): The Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Policy Committee has said that measures are being planned to help entrepreneurs and labourers affected by the Covid-19 situation so as to boost the economy in the EEC areas, Kanit Sangsubhan, secretary-general of the committee, said.

“Among the measures that will be rolled out, top priority would be given to providing soft loans to SMEs [small amd medium-sized enterprises] and expanding export markets to countries that were also recovering from Covid-19, such as the CLMV group [Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam], China, Taiwan and Japan, ” he said.