Thailand’s employment growth slowed in the second quarter of this year as droughts affected farming despite improvements in the vital tourism sector with an inflow of foreign visitors, official data showed on Monday.
The southeast Asian country’s labor force amounted to 39.7 million individuals in the April-June period, representing a 1.7-percent year-on-year increase, a slowdown from an expansion of 2.4 percent in the previous three months, according to the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC).
The growth was mainly due to an expansion of the non-agricultural sector, with employment in hotels and restaurants jumping 11.7 percent from a year earlier.—Xinhua
