{"id":39,"date":"2026-05-05T09:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:44:01","slug":"thailand-government-approves-9bn-borrowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/thailand-government-approves-9bn-borrowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Government approves \u00a39bn borrowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Thai Government has approved plans to borrow 400 billion baht to ease cost of living pressures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said the emergency decree was agreed by cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Half of the funding will go to support vulnerable households, while the rest will be used to support energy transition efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas said rising energy prices are affecting everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The borrowing will come from domestic sources and is expected to be submitted to parliament for approval next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand\u2019s government has approved a major emergency loan to tackle rising living costs. Ministers say the money will help vulnerable people and support energy changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangkok-news-today","category-thailand-news-today","tag-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandnewstoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}