He is also working on cutting other taxes for labour-intensive industries, such as textiles and shoes.

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Private firms, especially in labour-intensive industries and in tourism, will be encouraged to invest in the North.

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Although there are surely some illegals about, as there are in most parts of America, there is no visible community of outsiders or labour-intensive industries to lure them.

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These include labour-intensive industries and small restaurants and guesthouses.

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The weak dollar has rendered American labour more competitive, but not enough to rejuvenate low-margin, labour-intensive manufacturing in industries such as textiles, furniture or paper products.

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As a result some industries, especially labour-intensive ones such as retailing, stay fragmented and inefficient.

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They distrust Mr Thanong's projection of an export-led recovery, given that Thailand is in the throes of shifting from cheap-labour industries to manufacturing capital-intensive goods, such as cars and electronics.

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Many investments were in capital-intensive industries quite unsuited to a labour-rich agricultural economy.

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