{"id":750948,"date":"2026-06-21T05:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750948\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:36:40","slug":"foreign-investment-in-thailand-tops-154bn-baht-in-first-five-months-up-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750948\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign investment in Thailand tops 154bn baht in first five months, up 73%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compared with the same period in 2025, approvals for foreign investment in Thailand increased by 102 investors, or 24%, from 426 to 528.<\/p>\n<p>Investment value rose by 64.62 billion baht, or 73%, from 88.94 billion baht to 153.56 billion baht.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign investors who obtained foreign business licences also generated employment for 3,788 Thai workers, up 1,230 people, or 48%, from 2,558 workers in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBOI attracts more than 100bn baht in investment<\/p>\n<p>Most foreign investment came through investment promotion under the Board of Investment (BOI), with 254 investors, accounting for 48% of all 528 approvals. Investment value through the BOI totalled 101.66 billion baht.<\/p>\n<p>This aligns with the government\u2019s policy to attract foreign investment into future industries, including advanced technology, digital, AI, electric vehicles, clean energy and agri-food businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Compared with the same period in 2025, approvals for foreign investment in Thailand increased by 102 investors, or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[268465,879,45,49,48,268466,46,57300,2512],"class_list":["post-750948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-board-of-investment-boi","tag-breaking-news","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eastern-economic-corridor-eec","tag-economy","tag-foreign-direct-investment","tag-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}