Thai News Update: 15 January 2019

HEADLINES:

1. Cabinet allows greater imports of potatoes, onions from Australia, New Zealand under trade pacts

2. Additional measure to help SMEs

3. Baht's moves dodge US watch list

4. Japan firms in Thailand plan average 4% wage hike

5. Thailand avoids US ‘currency manipulator’ tag

6. Thailand approves merger of state-owned telecoms firms

7. Tourism Council of Thailand forecasts year over year tourism increase by 2.1 for this quarter

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