BANGKOK -- Nissan Motor will hire about 2,000 new employees to increase car production at its Thai unit, as part of a global restructuring effort by the financially-battered Japanese automaker in which Thailand will be a major beneficiary.
Nissan has already stopped operations at its Indonesia plant and plans to withdraw completely from production there. It had tried to expand local sales by introducing low-priced models under the Datsun brand, but failed. As a result, Thailand will now be Nissan's only large-scale production base in Southeast Asia.
