''Krungthep Turakij'' ( th, กรุงเทพธุรกิจ, lit=Bangkok business, ) is a Thai-language daily newspaper published by Nation Group. It was established on 6 October 1987, and was originally positioned as a business newspaper, competing in the category with ''

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'', among others. Its scope eventually expanded to more general topics, and it in effect came to compete with quality-oriented general-interest dailies such as ''

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''. It operated as a sister paper to the English-language ''

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'', with which it originally shared management and advertising sections. During the 1990s, when Thailand saw a vibrant and competitive newspaper industry, ''Krungthep Turakij'' was among the few that were consistently profitable, with a daily circulation of 70,000, and one of the two business dailies (the other being ''Manager'') that survived the

1997 financial crisis The Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East Asia and Southeast Asia beginning in July 1997 and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion. However, the recovery in 1998–1 ...

. With the cessation of ''The Nation'' print issue in 2019 and its mass-market-oriented sister paper '' Kom Chad Luek'' in 2020, ''Krungthep Turakij'' alongside that it had acquired in 2022 remains the Nation Group's only newspapers still in print. It operates a corresponding news website at the domain bangkokbiznews.com.

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