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Bangkok (VNA) – About 70 percent of Thais understand and are engaging in the "social distancing" campaign, which is a major strategy to curb the transmission of COVID-19, the latest survey conducted by Thailand’s Department of Mental Health showed. The department conducted the survey last week among 26,000 respondents. The study's goal was to find out the appropriate measures needed to push the campaign to exceed the 80 percent milestone. Local media quoted Kiattiphoom Vongrachit, Director-General of the department, as saying that the 80 percent benchmark is based on a research in Australia, which found that is the threshold when COVID-19 transmission potentially stops. Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health estimated that if social distancing compliance exceeds 80 percent, the number of COVID-19 cases will reach 7,745 by April 15. The cases will however climb to 17,635 by that date if social distancing compliance is only 50 percent. With no social distancing, the … [Read more...] about Over 80 percent of Thais expected to engage in social distancing

One will never know if one has secured themselves stocks because people are buying by impulse. Hence, most of the things bought will be wasted. Being a wise consumer is much more important than being a big consumer. That is a habit I was able to build up while growing up in the Philippines where we were constantly hit by typhoons and calamities. … [Read more...] about Live responsibly in COVID-19 age

On April 1, IHS Markit, an information, analytics, and solution provider for the major industries and markets, announced the purchasing manager’s index (PMI) of Vietnam’s manufacturing industry fell from 49 points in February to 41.9 points in March, the lowest level in nine years. This is also the strongest decrease since July 2012. In March, the number of new orders and production both dropped at the fastest rate in history, forcing enterprises to lay off workers.  Business optimism was also at its lowest level since the index was added to the survey in April 2012. The survey results of IHS Markit are quite consistent with the figures released by the General Statistics Office of Vietnam at the end of March. Accordingly, in the first quarter of this year, due to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, foreign investment capital into Vietnam only reached US$8.55 billion, accounting for 79.1 percent compared to the same period last year. Of which, the total newly … [Read more...] about Many positive signals from FDI enterprises