{"id":447472,"date":"2026-05-18T10:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/447472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:10:17","slug":"thailands-q1-gdp-growth-picks-up-bucking-trend-among-asean-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/447472\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s Q1 GDP growth picks up, bucking trend among ASEAN peers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Robust exports and investment offset early impact of Iran war<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260402 Bangkok gas station\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A gas station in Bangkok.\u00a0Thailand&#8217;s GDP growth accelerated in the January-March quarter, but high\u00a0fuel prices are expected to weigh on the economy in the April-June quarter. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)<\/p>\n<p>APORNRATH PHOONPHONGPHIPHAT<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BANGKOK &#8212; Thailand&#8217;s economic growth accelerated in the first quarter of 2026, driven by robust exports, official data showed on Monday, bucking a regional slowdown among Southeast Asian peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Robust exports and investment offset early impact of Iran war A gas station in Bangkok.\u00a0Thailand&#8217;s GDP growth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31118,209408,114,184,3153,4422,85,46,209409,77785,178563,73683,80917,2359],"class_list":["post-447472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asean","tag-bucking","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-growth","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-peers","tag-picks","tag-q1","tag-thailands","tag-trend","tag-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}