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  • GENERAL

    SET listing powers ANI's regional growth

    Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 16/12/2023

    » With fresh funding mobilised from the Stock Exchange of Thailand, Asia Network International Plc (ANI) aims to expand its network of cargo general sales agents (GSAs) across Asia and beyond, partly through mergers and acquisitions.

  • TRAVEL

    TAT aims for 800,000 UK visitors next year

    Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 09/11/2022

    » London: Thailand is hoping to attract 800,000 visitors from the UK in 2023, twice as many as the 400,000 expected this year, as a major drive for the country to achieve overall tourism revenue of 1.73 trillion baht next year, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said yesterday.

  • BUSINESS

    Swipe and go

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 01/01/2017

    » Planning a trip abroad for the coming New Year holiday? In the old days, if you were a holidaymaker or a business traveller, you probably would have booked a trip through a travel agent and when you got to your destination, bought a map and rented a car to get yourself around.

  • GENERAL

    SJWD plans to spend B2.5bn on expanding network

    Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 06/02/2024

    » SCGJWD Logistics (SJWD), a unit of Siam Cement Group (SCG), is set to invest nearly 2.5 billion baht to acquire shares of logistics companies in Thailand and Malaysia as it expands its logistics and supply chain business in Southeast Asia.

  • GENERAL

    Nok facing possible delisting from SET

    Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 20/09/2023

    » Nok Airlines may delist from the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) if the low-cost carrier fails to improve its financial performance and submit its 2022 financial results within a specific time period, according to the Thai bourse.

  • OPINION

    Time to tone down Taiwan tensions

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 08/08/2022

    » It was a picture-perfect shot, really. That was my thought when I saw US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi standing side by side with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei last Wednesday. But the one-day visit to the self-ruled island by the 82-year-old American politician has created no end of tension, not only for the US and China but also many of their allies across the Asia Pacific region.

  • BUSINESS

    China must rethink Zero Covid

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 25/04/2022

    » It finally feels like the world, collectively, is moving in one direction. Toward reopening. Toward the new normal. Hong Kong, after some of the world's strictest quarantine rules kept Covid-19 at bay for almost two years, last Thursday reopened gyms, beauty parlours, theme parks and cinemas for the first time in more than four months.

  • OPINION

    Coming to grips with Omicron

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 06/12/2021

    » The world was shaken again last week as the latest coronavirus variant emerged. First detected in South Africa a week earlier, Omicron is now a "variant of concern" -- the most serious category used by the World Health Organization, which said it poses a "very high" risk to public health.

  • BUSINESS

    Tourism revival in doubt again

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 19/04/2021

    » Most of Thailand's famous holiday destinations were nearly empty last week during the long Songkran holiday. The latest Covid-19 wave -- with daily infections climbing all week and hitting a record 1,582 on Friday -- scared tourists away from popular beach resorts close to Bangkok such as Pattaya, Cha-am and Hua Hin, which has also become a coronavirus hotspot following a superspreader event at a local pub.

  • BUSINESS

    Making travel safe again

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 26/10/2020

    » Asia is slowly reopening for tourism. After months of strict border restrictions and closures since the Covid-19 pandemic began, some countries in the region are beginning to proceed with a cautious approach to inbound travel.

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