The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) Board is preparing to set up community banks across the country as a channel in loan acquisition among low-income residents.
Finance Ministry Korn Chatikavanij, as Chairman of the BAAC Board, stated that the board had discussed the setting up of community banks. He said the major role of community banks was to release loans with low interest rate for the people in rural areas.
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The government is hurting investor confidence instead of boosting it, through the issuance of two executive decrees that involve the operations of the Bank of Thailand, said former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij.Read Full Story
Finance minister Korn’s spouse is his strongest backer at home and on the campaign trail. A lady of great taste, she is one of the current Asia Tatler Most Stylish Women. She appears at A-list events usually with friend Buppa Kingchatchaval, now sporting a chin-length bob hairdo.
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The government will have to come up with new measures to protect depositors if it goes ahead with its plan to use funds from the Deposit Protection Agency (DPA) to service the Financial Institutions Development Fund's Bt1.14 trillion debt, former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij said.Read Full Story
Democrat MP Korn Chatikavanij and senator Kamnoon Sitthisamarn testified opposing the decrees. Finance Minister Kittiratt Na Ranong outlined the government's rebuttals. Korn argued that the two decrees were unconstitutional because the government had no ...
Bangkok PostKorn: Govt wants to avoid scrutinyBangkok PostThe government has issued four financial executive decrees instead of enacting new legislation to avoid parliamentary screening, former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij said in a message posted on Facebook. "The constitution stipulates that an ...
The government is hurting investor confidence instead of boosting it, through the issuance of two executive decrees that involve the operations of the Bank of Thailand, said former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij. During the parliamentary ...
Korn Chatikavanij, the former finance minister and deputy leader of the opposition Democrat Party, is one of the 120-plus MPs who signed a petition for the Constitution Court to rule if the government's emergency decree on the transfer to the Bank of ...
former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij said. Korn, deputy leader of the opposition Democrat Party, also expressed concern that commercial banks would pass on the additional fees to be collected by the government to their customers. At present ...
The government has allocated only Bt225 million to finance the establishment of the National Savings Fund - far short of the previous government's plan to provide Bt1 billion as seed money, former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij said during the second ...
"The novelty will wear off," claimed a Party executive. When Democrat Party Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij was asked about his thoughts on her, his only reply was, "She’s quite good-looking." However, nearly all pre-election polls predicted a large ...
The opposition Democrart Party will continue its efforts to protect the country from being robbed by the Pheu Thai-led government, former finance minister Korn Chatikavanij said in a message posted on FaceBook on Monday. "Today, we [the Democrat Party ...
The petition, signed by 128 members of parliament, was on Monday submitted by Democrat deputy leader Korn Chatikavanij, MPs Wirat Kalayasiri, Atthawit Suwanphakdi and Thavorn Senniam. The opposition is asking that the court to rule whether the issuing of ...
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