Thailand is in the process of reforming laws related to payment systems and services, as well as consolidating several overlapping laws that regulate electronic money businesses, with the National Legislative Assembly approving the new Payment Systems Act in August 2017. The new draft of the bill is awaiting royal assent and is expected to be published in the Government Gazette within this year, becoming effective 180 days after its publication.

Medicines can save lives only if they are safe, efficacious, of good quality, and affordable. The use of unsafe, substandard, ineffective, and counterfeit drugs can be harmful to the health of the users and the public. Governments have an obligation to ensure the safety, efficacy, and quality of the drugs available to the public by regulating the manufacturing and distribution of drugs and by exercising legal power to control the proliferation of unsafe counterfeit medicines.

PLC Life Sciences Global Guide  is a Q&A-style chapter that provides an overview of the regulatory frameworks of the life sciences industries across multiple jurisdictions worldwide. Legal practitioners from Tilleke & Gibbins contributed to the Thailand chapter of the guide, which is comprised of the following two sections:Medical Product Regulation and Product Liability in Thailand

Pharmaceutical experts from Tilleke & Gibbins authored the Vietnam chapters of the latest edition of the PLC Life Sciences Global Guide. PLC’s popular guides provide a comparative overview, in Q&A format, of laws and regulations across a wide range of practice areas in dozens of jurisdictions around the world.The Life Sciences Global Guide  focuses on the pharmaceutical sector and related areas, and is divided into two sections. The first section covers medicinal product regulation and product liability, including the following topics:

“InsurTech” is a term that people may not be able to find a definition for, even in modern dictionaries. There is no Thai translation of it, or for its sister term “FinTech.” The popular opinion is that the term InsurTech was inspired by FinTech, and it should generally be used to refer to the use of technological innovation which enhances the economic efficiency of the insurance industry.

On November 7 this year, Thailand will officially become the 99th member of the Madrid Protocol, a centralized system for trademark owners to protect marks in multiple jurisdictions, using only one international application, and subsequently to manage that protection in a single step.

The Thai Board of Investment (BOI) established a new Strategic Talent Center (STC) on July 3, 2017, to provide assistance to private Thai and foreign companies that are seeking to recruit highly skilled Thai and foreign specialists in the fields of science and technology to support their businesses in Thailand.

The PLC Energy and Natural Resources Global Guide 2017  provides a comparative high-level overview of energy laws and regulations in multiple jurisdictions around the world, structured in a concise Q&A format. Vinh Quoc Nguyen, senior attorney-at-law in Tilleke & Gibbins’ Ho Chi Minh City office, contributed the chapter on electricity regulations in Vietnam for the guide.The electricity chapter covers a range of topics, including the following: