• BUSINESS

  Zero-carbon race

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 21/06/2021

  » Racing against the clock to achieve net-zero carbon status by 2050 is one of the biggest challenges faced by businesses across the world.

• BUSINESS

  Bitkub seeks local partner for overseas expansion

  Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 26/11/2022

  » Bangkok-based Bitkub Capital Group Holdings Co has been in talks with prospective local partners in Southeast Asia regarding plans to expand beyond Thailand next year, says founder and group chief executive Jirayut Srupsrisopa.

• BUSINESS

  Slowdown ahead

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 24/12/2018

  » The economic outlook doesn't seem as rosy as it once did for most Asian countries looking toward 2019. The relatively dynamic world trade recovery that began in late 2016 is now threatened by tensions between the United States and China, coupled with increasing protectionism in many economies.


• BUSINESS

  At home in Asean

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 05/02/2018

  » The first thing that impressed me about Hideaki Iwasaki, country director for the Thailand Resident Mission of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), was his fluent English. I assumed it was the result of his educational background.

• BUSINESS

  Reform on the menu

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 05/06/2017

  » Southeast Asia faces challenges of food security and nutrition as population growth and rising affluence increase food demand and competition for resources. Longer-term challenges include changes in consumption patterns, volatile food prices, climate change impact, conversion of agricultural land to industrial uses, and migration of labour from rural to urban areas.

• BUSINESS

  Almost famous

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 23/05/2016

  » At first glance, Michael Punke doesn't look very different from his peers at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva except for his extraordinary height. When the nattily dressed 51-year-old talks about his role as a trade negotiator representing the US government, he sounds convincing and determined to pursue what can be a controversial job.

• BUSINESS

  Bumpy ride ahead

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 12/02/2016

  » As the world economy risks prolonged stagnation, Asia's developing export-oriented countries face dimmer economic prospects in the years to come amid low global trade growth and an uncertain commodity price outlook.

• GENERAL

  Making sense of the uptick for Bitcoin

  Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 28/03/2024

  » Before this year, investors predicted the prices of cryptocurrencies could surge in 2024 because of the Bitcoin halving, an event that rewards mining that occurs every four years, as well as the likelihood of interest rate cuts, which benefit most asset classes.

• BUSINESS

  SET rides Asian market upswell

  Business, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 02/12/2022

  » The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) joined an Asian rally yesterday, a day after Thailand lifted its key interest rate, as investors took heart from the Federal Reserve chairman's remarks on US rate hikes and signs China is easing its Covid-19 measures.

• BUSINESS

  Waiting for China

  Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 23/05/2022

  » Since China began to open up and reform its economy in 1978, growth has averaged almost 10% a year, and more than 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty. There have also been significant improvements in access to health, education and other services, with the mainland now an upper-middle-income country.

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