BANGKOK: TikTok plans to invest US$8.8 billion in Thailand over the next five years, focusing on digital infrastructure, workforce development and online safety initiatives, a senior executive said on Friday (Feb 28) after talks with the government. The social media platform owned by China's ByteDance is the latest in a string of big tech names to announce major spending projects in the kingdom , after Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Helena Lersch, TikTok's vice president of public policy, met